RESCEIT

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  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.