Both Uses of
recourse
in
Northanger Abbey
- How are your various dresses to be remembered, and the particular state of your complexion, and curl of your hair to be described in all their diversities, without having constant recourse to a journal?†
Chpt 3 *
- Thorpe then said something in the loud, incoherent way to which he had often recourse, about its being a d—thing to be miserly; and that if people who rolled in money could not afford things, he did not know who could, which Catherine did not even endeavour to understand.†
Chpt 11
Definitions:
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(1)
(recourse) a different way to accomplish something when the preferred way doesn't work
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
In finance and law, recourse has more specialized meanings. When someone borrows money to purchase a home, the loan can be a nonrecourse loan or not. If the loan is nonrecourse and the borrower does not make payments, the lender can take the property, but they cannot take other money, valuables, or future wages of the borrower. Some states require that home loans be nonrecourse. In many states borrowers can purchase either kind of loan.
More generally in finance and law, recourse may refer to collecting from a second party who has guaranteed that a first party will pay something. For example, if parents guaranteed a loan made by a bank to their children, then the bank would have recourse to demand payment from the parents if the child didn't make payments.