clawback

noun4

1. •
   (US) A rule that permits a party to take back evidentiary materials that were mistakenly turned over to the other party but to which the other party would not have been entitled.
2. •
   Money that a party is entitled to keep under one tax provision but is taken by another tax provision.
3. •
   Any recovery of a performance-related payment based on discovery that the performance was not genuine.

   • The airline got a clawback provision in the event of failure of the engines to meet fuel-consumption targets.
4. •
   (no longer used) A flatterer or sycophant.

   • Take hede of these claubackes, these venemous people that wil come to you, that will folowe like Gnatoes and Parasites, if you folowe them, you are oute of your boke. — 1549