Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In law, the person who is vouched or summoned in a writ of right.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Law) The person who is vouched, or called into court to support or make good his warranty of title in the process of common recovery.
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- noun law, archaic The person who is
vouched , or called into court to support or make good his warranty of title in the process of common recovery.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (law) a person called into court to defend a title
Etymologies
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Examples
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Hence a man could summon no one but his grantor, and the successive vouchers came to an end when the last vouchee could not call on another from whom he had bought.
The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888
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IhatT. feifed, dcvifbd to wife for life, temainder to R. in tail, remainder to heirs of T. the wife, in a common recovery vouched R. to warranty, who vouched the common vouchee to the ufe of the wife for life, remainder to R. in fee; the wife died, and lards djcendedxo defendant.
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In a recovery with double voucher, the tenant or proprietor of the land con - veys an eftate of freehold to fome indifferent pcrfon againft whom the v/rit is brought; the tenant to the precipe then vouches the proprietor of the land, who vouches over the common vouchee.
A Law Grammar; Or, An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of English Jurisprudence. 1791
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When it (hall be given in a writ of dower fcr the demandant to iccover againll the terar?, when againft the vouchee, f.
Reports of Cases in the Reigns of Hen: VIII. Great Britain Courts 1794
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