resceit

resceit
/rasiyt/ In old English practice, an admission or receiving a third person to plead his right in a cause formerly commenced between two others; as, in an action by tenant for life or years, he in the reversion might come in and pray to be received to defend the land, and to plead with the demandant

Black's law dictionary. . 1990.

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  • resceit — The ancient English practice of permitting a person who was not a party to the action to come into it and plead a right of his own …   Ballentine's law dictionary

  • resceit of homage — /rasiyt av (h)6maj/ In old English law, the lord s receiving homage of his tenant at his admission to the land …   Black's law dictionary

  • rescyt — /rasiyt/ L. Fr. Resceit; receipt; the receiving or harboring a felon, after the commission of a crime …   Black's law dictionary

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