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  • 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...
  • RECOMMENDATORY
    Precatory, advisory, or directory. Recommendatory words In a will are such as do not express the testator's command in a peremptory form, but advise, counsel, or suggest that a certain course be pursued or disposition made.
  • RECOMPENSATION
    In Scotland, where a party sues for a debt and the defendant pleads compensation, i. e., set-off, the plaintiff may allege a compensation on his part; and this la called a "recompensation." Bell.
  • RECOMPENSE
    A reward for services; remuneration for goods or other property.
  • RECOMPENSE OR RECOVERY IN VALUE
    That part of the judgment in a "common recovery" by which the tenant la declared entitled to recover lands of equal value with those which were warranted to him and lost by the default of the vouchee. See 2 Bl. Comm. 358-359.
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