What is "without recourse"

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.

   Unto my first I will have my recourse.
   --Chaucer.

   Preventive physic . . . preventeth sickness in the healthy, or the recourse thereof in the valetudinary.
   --Sir T. Browne.

2. Recurrence in difficulty, perplexity, need, or the like; access or application for aid; resort.

   Thus died this great peer, in a time of great recourse unto him and dependence upon him.
   --Sir H. Wotton.

   Our last recourse is therefore to our art.
   --Dryden.

3. Access; admittance. [Obs.]

   Give me recourse to him.
   --Shak.

   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.

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.]

1. On or at the outside of; out of; not within; as, without doors.

   Without the gate Some drive the cars, and some the coursers rein.
   --Dryden.

2. Out of the limits of; out of reach of; beyond.

   Eternity, before the world and after, is without our reach.
   --T. Burnet.

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.

   I wolde it do withouten negligence.
   --Chaucer.

   Wise men will do it without a law.
   --Bacon.

   Without the separation of the two monarchies, the most advantageous terms . . . must end in our destruction.
   --Addison.

   There is no living with thee nor without thee.
   --Tatler.

   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.