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Hardened beyond sensibility or recovery; alienated; insensible; as, lost to shame; lost to all sense of honor.

e claims satisfaction in damages for an injury to his person or property, or the specific recovery of goods or chattels; -- opposed to real action. -- Personal equation. (Astron.) See under Equation. -- Personal estate or property (Law), movables; chattels; -- opposed to real estate or property. It usually consists o…

nward in course; to proceed; to advance; to go on; as, railroads are progressing. "As his recovery progressed." Thackeray. Let me wipe off this honorable dew, That silverly doth progress on thy checks. Shak. They progress in that style in proportion as their pieces are treated with contempt. Washington. The war had pro…

A regaining; recovery of something lost. [Obs.] Bacon.

realty, as terms for years of land. See Chattel. -- Real action (Law), an action for the recovery of real property. -- Real assets (Law), lands or real estate in the hands of the heir, chargeable with the debts of the ancestor. -- Real composition (Eccl. Law), an agreement made between the owner of lands and the par…

A retaking; a recovery. [Obs.] Bacon.

The act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed; reclamation; recovery. [Obs.]

tain title to by judgement in a court of law; as, to recover lands in ejectment or common recovery; to gain by legal process; as, to recover judgement against a defendant. Recover arms (Mil. Drill), a command whereby the piece is brought from the position of "aim" to that of "ready."

Recovery. [Obs.]

The person against whom a judgment is obtained in common recovery.

The demandant in a common recovery after judgment. Wharton.

Recovery, as of anything lost, especially of the health or strength.

Of or pertaining to recuperation; tending to recovery.

Cure; remedy; recovery. [Obs.] But whom he hite, without recure he dies. Fairfax.

unal, sometimes called Court of Consience, founded by act of Parliament to facilitate the recovery of small debts from any inhabitant or trader in the district defined by the act; -- now mostly abolished. (b) A court of equity for the relief of such persons as addressed the sovereign by supplication; -- now abolished.…

The state of being restored; recovery of health, strength, etc.; as, restoration from sickness.

The recovery of game once sprung; -- an old sporting term. [Obs.] Nares.

and by a diminution in the power of resistance to disease or injury and the capacity for recovery. Scrofula is now generally held to be tuberculous in character, and may develop into general or local tuberculosis (consumption).

to have the essential quality of damages. This is said of an action brought, not for the recovery of a specific thing, as replevin, etc., but for damages only, as trespass, and the like.

The attempt to gain an end by legal process; an action or process for the recovery of a right or claim; legal application to a court for justice; prosecution of right before any tribunal; as, a civil suit; a criminal suit; a suit in chancery. I arrest thee at the suit of Count Orsino. Shak. In England the several suits…