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  • 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.
  • RECONCILIATION
    The renewal of amicable relations between two persons who had been at enmity or variance; usually Implying forgiveness of injuries on one or both sides. It ia sometimes used in the law of divorce as a term synonymous or analogous to "condonation."
  • RECONDUCTION
    In the civil law. A renewing of a former lease; relocation. Dig. 19, 2, 13, 11; Code Nap. arts. 1737-1740.
  • RECONSTRUCTION
    The name commonly given to the process of reorganising, by acts of congress and executive action, the governments of the states which had passed ordinances of secession, and of re-establishing their constitutional relations to the national government, restoring their representation in congress, and effecting the necessary changes in their internal More...
  • RECONTINUANCE
    seems to be used to signify that a person has recovered an incorporeal hereditament of which he had been wrongfully deprived. Thus, "A. Is disseised of a mannor, whereunto an advowson is appendant, an estranger [i. e., neither A. nor the disseisor] usurpes to the advowson; If the disseisee [A.] More...
  • RECONVENIRE
    Lat In the canon and dvil law. To make a cross-demand upon the actor, or plaintiff. 4 Reeve, Eng. Law, 14, and note, (r.)
  • RECONVENTION
    In the civil law. An action by a defendant against a plaintiff In a former action; a cross-bill or litigation. The term is used in practice in the states of Louisiana and Texas, derived from the re-conventio of the civil law. Reconvention ia not identical with set-off, but more extensive.. More...
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