regressus

Borrowed from Latin regressus. Doublet of regress.

regressus (uncountable)

1. (Roman law) The entitlement of a debtor to have a co-debtor pay their share.
   • 1875, Edward Poste, Gai Institutiones:

     In Solidarity the guarantor who pays the whole has regressus against his co-guarantors, that is to say, has a power of recovering from them contribution of their share of the debt: whereas the Correal debtor who pays has no regressus or right to contribution.

   • 1903, John Baron Moyle, Imperatoris Iustiniani Institiutionum, volume 4, page 490:

     Hence the pactum non petendo in rem of one correus debendi benefits the rest whenever on payment by one of them he woud have regressus against the others, for otherwise the pactum would be practically inoperative.

   • 1915, Robert Warden Lee, Introduction to Roman-Dutch Law, page 85:

     According to Voet, if the husband (or his heirs) has discharged the whole of an ante-nuptial debt, he (or they) has (or have) regressus against the wife or her heirs in respect of one-half.

2. (canon law) Reversion to a benefice on default of one's successor.
   • 1940, E. W. Wallis, The Church in Shetland During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, University of Edinburgh:

     On July 30th 1541, at the entreaty of the king of Scots, the pope provides Reid to the Church of Orkney, void by the death of Robert Maxwell, with retention of the monastery of Kinloss and his other benefices and pensions and right of regressus.

   • 1998, Eila Williamson, Scottish benefices and clergy during the Pontificate of Sixtus IV (1471-84): the evidence in the Registra Supplicationum, University of Glasgow:

     The regressus device meant that the benefice could he restored to the cleric who had resigned it should the recipient of the resignation die or resign or fail to pay the pension.

   • 2019, Lucinda Byatt, A Companion to the Early Modern Cardinal:

     The right of regressus allowed a prelate to resign a benefice, possibly retaining a large pension on its revenues, with the assurance that that he could reclaim the benefice and its revenues either when the new incumbent died or if the latter in turn resigned.

3. (history, sciences, philosophy) This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
   • 1995, William A. Wallace, “Circularity and the Paduan Regressus: From Pietro d'Abano to Galileo Galilei”, in Vivarium, volume 33, number 1:

     There is substantial evidence that Galileo not only knew the details of the regressus but employed it to found the "new sciences" for which he is famous.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [rɛˈɡrɛs.sʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [reˈɡrɛs.sus]

From regredior +‎ -tus (tu-stem noun suffix).

regressus m (genitive regressūs); fourth declension

1. return
2. regression

Fourth-declension noun.

• Italian: regresso
• Portuguese: regresso
• Russian: регресс (regress)
• Spanish: regreso

Perfect passive participle of regredior (“return”).

regressus (feminine regressa, neuter regressum); first/second-declension participle

1. returned, having returned
2. retired, retreated, having retreated
3. reverted, having reverted

First/second-declension adjective.

• “regressus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “regressus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "regressus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “regressus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.