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  • 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...
  • RECOMMENDATION
    In feudal law. A method of converting allodial land into feudal property. The owner of the allod surrendered it to the king or a lord, doing homage, and received it back as a benefice or feud, to hold to himself and such of his heirs aa he had previously nominated More...
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