Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see without, recourse.
(finance) Written on a bill of exchange to indicate that the buyer might not be paid back.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgThe family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea; perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law. V. S. Naipaul
It seemed to me that it was possible to translate light, forms, and character using nothing but color, without recourse to values. Pierre Bonnard
I now know that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely, and without recourse. Khaled Hosseini
You must not believe me. You must realize it in yourself know it, for it is beyond words and thinking. And it has to be experienced without recourse to drugs or insanity. Barry Long