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  • RECKLESSNESS
    Rashness; heedlessness; wanton conduct The state of mind accompanying an act, which either pays no regard to its probably or possibly injurious consequences, or which, though foreseeing such consequences, persists in spite of such knowledge. See Railroad Co. v. Bodemer, 139 III. 596, 29 N. E. 692, 82 Am. St. More...
  • RECLAIM
    To claim or demand back; to ask for the return or restoration of a thing; to insist upon one's right to recover that which was one's own, but was parted with conditionally or mistakenly; as, to reclaim goods which were obtained from one under false pretenses. In feudal law, It More...
  • RECLAIMED ANIMALS
    Those that are made tame by art, industry, or education, whereby a qualified property may be acquired in them.
  • RECLAIMING BILL
    In Scotch law. A petition of appeal or review of a judgment of the lord ordinary or other inferior court. Bell.
  • RECLAMATION DISTRICT
    A subdivision of a state created by legislative authority, for the purpose of reclaiming swamp, marshy, or desert lands within its boundaries aud rendering them fit for habitation or cultivation, generally with funds raised by local taxation or the issue of bonds, and sometimes with authority to make rules or More...
  • RECLUSION
    In French law and in Louisiana. Incarceration as a punishment for crime; a temporary, afflictive, and infamous punishment, consisting in being confined at hard labor in a penal Institution, and carrying dvil degradation. See Phelps v. Relnach, 38 La. Ann. 551; Jurgens v. Itt-man, 47 La. Ann. 367, 16 South. More...
  • RECOGNITION
    Ratification; confirmation; an acknowledgment that something done by another person in one's name had one's authority. An Inquiry conducted by a chosen body of men, not sitting as part of the court, into the facts In dispute in a case at law; these "recognitors" preceded the jurymen of modern times, More...
  • RECOGNITIONE ADNULLANDA PERVIM ET DURITIEM FACTA
    A writ to the justices of the common bench for sending a record touching a recognizance, which the recognizor suggests was acknowledged by force and duress; that If it so appear the recognizance may be annulled. Reg. Orig. 183.
  • RECOGNITORS
    In English law. The name by which the jurors Impaneled- on an assize are known. See RECOGNITION. The word ia sometimes met in modern books, as meaning the person who enters Into a recognizance, being thus another form of recognizor.
  • RECOGNIZANCE
    An obligation of record, entered Into before some court of record, or magistrate duly authorized, with condition to do some particular act; aa to appear at the assizes, or criminal court, to keep the peace, to pay a debt or the like. It resembles a bond, but differs from it More...
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