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RESCEIT or RECEIT

RESCEIT or RECEIT. The admission or receiving of a third person to plead his right in a cause formerly commenced between two other persons; as, when an action is brought against a tenant for life or years, or any other particular tenant, and he makes default, in such case the reversioner may move that he may be received to defend his right, and to plead with the demandant. Jacob, L. D. h.t. Resceit is also applied to the admittance of a plea, when the controversy is between the same two persons. Co. Litt. 192; 3 Nels. Ab. 146.

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