A Common Recovery was a fictitious lawsuit with the purpose of confirming ownership of a property. A deed of conveyance (usually Lease and Release) was drawn up to explain its purpose. This is what is known as a "Conveyance to make a tenant to the Precipe for the purpose of suffering a Common recovery" .The conveyance is BY the owner TO the tenant and the third party is usually the purchaser if the property is being sold. The recoverer ends of holding the property, to the uses which are intended and which are given in the deed. Best wishes, Margaret. In a message dated 04/07/2009 07:43:22 GMT Daylight Time, polly@rowberry.org writes: Hi All One of my FH students has sent me the following query: >>I have come across a document in the course of my research which is entitled :- "Release to make tenants to precipe to suffer a Recovery" Could you please tell me in plain English what that means? The document concerns the usual messuages, appurts, orchards, meadows etc which were by indenture (1611) conveyed by to my ancestor by various people.<< As I cannot answer this off the top of my head, I thought I would seek for enlightenment from the List, as I would like to ensure that I give her the correct answer. Kind regards Polly Many thanks, Janet