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  • 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...
  • RECOGNIZE
    To try; to examine In order to determine the truth of a matter. Also to enter into a recognizance.
  • RECOGNIZEE
    He to whom one is bound in a recognizance.
  • RECOGNIZOR
    He who enters into a recognizance.
  • RECOLEMENT
    In French law. This is the process by which a witness, who has given bis deposition, reads the same over and scrutinises It, with a view to affirming his satisfaction with it as it stands, or to making such changes in it as his better recollection may suggest t6 him More...
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