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Webster 1913 Edition
Recoupment
Re-coup′ment
(-ment)
, 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.
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Definition 2024
recoupment
recoupment
English
Noun
recoupment (plural recoupments)
- 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.
- 1879, John Neilson Taylor, A Treatise on the American Law of Landlord and Tenant, page 321