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RECOMPENSE OR RECOVERY IN VALUE Definition & Legal Meaning

Definition & Citations:

That part of the judgment in a “common recovery” by which the tenant is declared entitled to recover lands of equal value with those which were warranted to him and lost by the default of the vouchee. See 2 Bl. Comm. 358-359.

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