(law) The demandant in a common recovery after judgment.

(law) The person against whom a judgement is obtained in common recovery.

(obsolete) recovery

A vehicle designed and equipped for the recovery of other vehicles, which have either broken down, got stuck, or been involved in an accident.

plural of recovery vehicle

(biochemistry) A calcium-binding protein found in the photoreceptor cell of the eye.

plural of recoverable

plural of common recovery

(UK, law, historical) A legal proceeding in England that enabled lawyers to convert an entailed estate into absolute ownership, fee simple, by means of a legal fiction.

A fraudulent operation in which the fraudsters contact people who have already been scammed and offer to recover their lost money, but in fact steal more money from the victims.