Common recovery

(Law), a species of common assurance or mode of conveying lands by matter of record, through the forms of an action at law, formerly in frequent use, but now abolished or obsolete both in England and America. Burrill. Warren.

Synonyms—RECOVERY, RESTORATION. Recovery is active, restoration is passive. I must myself be instrumental in the recovery of my property that is stolen; not so in restoration, for which I am wholly indebted to the act of another. “Any other person may join with him that is injured, and assist him in recovering from the offender so much as may make satisfaction.” Graham. “Let us study to improve the assistance which this revelation affords to the recovery of our nature and the restoration of our felicity.” Graham.