recoveror

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Etymology edit

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recoveror (plural recoverors)

(law) The demandant in a common recovery after judgment.
- 1800, Reports of Adjudged Cases in the Court of Common Pleas:
  For either it remained in the recoveree after the recovery suffered , or was destroyed by it , or was conveyed to the recoveror

See also edit

recoverer

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “recoveror”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)