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  • RECESS
    In the practice of the courts, a recess is a short Interval or period of time during which the court suspends business, but without adjourning. See In re Gannon, 69 Cal. 541, 11 Pac. 240. In legislative practice, a recess is the 'interval, occurring in consequence of an adjournment between More...
  • RECESSION
    The act of ceding back; the restoration of the title and dominion of a territory* by the government which now holds it, to the government from which it was obtained by cession or otherwise. 2 White, Recop. 516.
  • RECESSUS MARIS
    Lat. In old English law. A going back; reliction or retreat of the sea.
  • RECHT
    Ger. Right; justice; equity; the whole body of law; unwritten law; law; also a right. There is much ambiguity in the use of this term, an ambiguity which it shares with the French "droit;* the Italian "diritto," and the English "right" On the one hand, the term "recht" answers to More...
  • RECIDIVE
    In French law. The state of an individual who commits a crime or misdemeanor, after having once been condemned for a crime or misdemeanor; a relapse. Dalloz.
  • RECIPROCAL CONTRACT
    A contract, the parties to which enter into mutual engagements. A mutual or bilateral contract.
  • RECIPROCAL WILLS
    Wills made by two or more persons In which they make reciprocal testamentary provisions in favor of each other, whether they unite in one will or each executes a separate one. In re Caw-ley's Estate, 136 Pa. 628, 20 AtL 567, 10 L. R. A. 93.
  • RECIPROCITY
    Mutuality. The term is used in international law to denote the relation existing between two states when each of them gives the subjects of the other certain privileges, on condition that its own subjects shall enjoy similar privileges at the hands of the latter state. Sweet.
  • RECITAL
    The formal statement or setting forth of some matter of fact in any deed or writing, in order to explain the reasons upon which the transaction is founded. The recitals are situated in the premises of a deed, that is, in that part of a deed between the date and More...
  • RECITE
    To state In a written instru ment facts connected with its inception, or reasons for its being made. Also to quote or set forth the words or the contents of some other instrument or document; as, to "recite" a statute. See Hart v. Baltimore A O. R. Co., 6 W. More...
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