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Definition of Recoveries
1. recovery [n] - See also: recovery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Recoveries
Literary usage of Recoveries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Mental Science by Royal Medico-psychological Association (1886)
""Yet, strange as it may appear, the total of recoveries is only 46'88 per cent,
... Thus, after aiding and assisting the recoveries of recent cases by a ..."
2. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent (1858)
"(b) The English real property commissioners, in their report to parliament, in
1829, proposed the abolition of fines and recoveries in England, ..."
3. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent (1854)
"Alienation by matter of record, as by fines and common recoveries, makes a
distinguished figure in the English code of the common assurances of the kingdom. ..."
4. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"Force and effect of common recoveries.—The force and effect of common ...
20 (Fines and Recoveries, 1543), no recovery had against tenant in tail, ..."
5. The Lancet (1842)
"TABLE C, showing the Average Proportion of Recoveries and the Mean Mortality,
... It would be more correct to calculate the " recoveries per cent. ..."