'Without recourse' definitions:

Definition of 'Without recourse'

From: GCIDE
  • Recourse \Re*course"\ (r?*k?rs"), n. [F. recours, L. recursus a running back, return, fr. recurrere, recursum, to run back. See Recur.]
  • 1. A coursing back, or coursing again, along the line of a previous coursing; renewed course; return; retreat; recurence. [Obs.] "Swift recourse of flushing blood." --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
  • Unto my first I will have my recourse. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • Preventive physic . . . preventeth sickness in the healthy, or the recourse thereof in the valetudinary. --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Recurrence in difficulty, perplexity, need, or the like; access or application for aid; resort. [1913 Webster]
  • Thus died this great peer, in a time of great recourse unto him and dependence upon him. --Sir H. Wotton. [1913 Webster]
  • Our last recourse is therefore to our art. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Access; admittance. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • Give me recourse to him. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • Without recourse (Commerce), words sometimes added to the indorsement of a negotiable instrument to protect the indorser from liability to the indorsee and subsequent holders. It is a restricted indorsement. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Without recourse'

From: GCIDE
  • Without \With*out"\, prep. [OE. withoute, withouten, AS. wi[eth]?tan; wi[eth] with, against, toward + ?tan outside, fr. ?t out. See With, prep., Out.] [1913 Webster]
  • 1. On or at the outside of; out of; not within; as, without doors. [1913 Webster]
  • Without the gate Some drive the cars, and some the coursers rein. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Out of the limits of; out of reach of; beyond. [1913 Webster]
  • Eternity, before the world and after, is without our reach. --T. Burnet. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Not with; otherwise than with; in absence of, separation from, or destitution of; not with use or employment of; independently of; exclusively of; with omission; as, without labor; without damage. [1913 Webster]
  • I wolde it do withouten negligence. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • Wise men will do it without a law. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
  • Without the separation of the two monarchies, the most advantageous terms . . . must end in our destruction. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
  • There is no living with thee nor without thee. --Tatler. [1913 Webster]
  • To do without. See under Do.
  • Without day [a translation of L. sine die], without the appointment of a day to appear or assemble again; finally; as, the Fortieth Congress then adjourned without day.
  • Without recourse. See under Recourse. [1913 Webster]