DOUBLE VOUCHER

double voucher.In a common-recovery suit, a voucher first by the fictitious tenant to the real

tenant, and then by the real tenant to the common vouchee. See COMMON RECOVERY.

“The  recovery,  here  described,  is  with  a  single  voucher  only;  but  sometimes  it  is  with

double… or farther voucher, as the exigency of the case may require. And indeed it is now usual

always  to  have  a  recovery  with  double  voucher  at  the  least;  by  first  conveying  an  estate  of

freehold to any indifferent person, against whom the praecipe is brought; and then he vouches the

tenant  in  tail,  who  vouches  over  the  common  vouchee.  For,  if  a  recovery  be  had  immediately

against tenant in tail, it bars only such estate in the premises of which he is then actually seised;

whereas if the recovery be  had against another person, and the tenant in tail be  vouched, it bars

every latent right and interest which he may have in the lands recovered.” 2 William Blackstone,

Commentaries on the Laws of England 359 (1766). [Blacks Law 8th]