RECONTINUANCE
\ɹˌiːkəntˈɪnjuːəns], \ɹˌiːkəntˈɪnjuːəns], \ɹ_ˌiː_k_ə_n_t_ˈɪ_n_j_uː_ə_n_s]\
Definitions of RECONTINUANCE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1910 - Black's Law Dictionary (2nd edition)
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seems to be used to signify that a person has recovered an in- corporeal hereditament of which he had been wrongfully deprived. Thus, "A. is dis- seised of a maunor, whereunto an advowson is appendant, an estranger [i. e., neither A. nor the disseisor] usurpes to the advowson ; if the disseisee [A.] enter into the mannor, the advowson is recontinued again, which was severed by the usurpation.
By Henry Campbell Black
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