In conveyancing . A species of common assurance, or mode of conveying lands by matter of record , formerly in frequent use In England. It was in the nature and form of an action at law, carried regularly through, and ending in a recovery of the lands against the tenant of the freehold; which recovery, being a supposed adjudication of the right, bound all persons, and vested a free and absolute fee- simple in the recoverer. 2 Bl. Comm. 357. Christy v. Burch. 25 Fla. 942, 2 South. 258. Common recoveries were abolished by the statutes 3 & 4 Wm. IV. c. 74
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