from
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
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.