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Recoupment

Re-coup′ment

(-ment)
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Noun.
The act of recouping.
Recoupment applies to equities growing out of the very affair from which thw principal demand arises, set-off to cross-demands which may be independent in origin.
Abbott.

Definition 2024


recoupment

recoupment

English

Noun

recoupment (plural recoupments)

  1. A recovery of what had been lost.
    • 1879, John Neilson Taylor, A Treatise on the American Law of Landlord and Tenant, page 321
      The doctrine of recoupment is of recent growth, hardly preceding in its origin the beginning of the present century.

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