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  • RECOUSSE
    In French law. Recapture. Emerig. Tralte des Assur. c. 12, I 23.
  • RECOVEREE
    In old conveyancing. The party who suffered a common recovery.
  • RECOVERER
    The demandant in a common recovery, after judgment has been given in his favor.
  • RECOVERY
    In its most extensive sense, a recovery is the restoration or vindication of a right existing in a person, by the formal judgment or decree of a competent court at his instance and suit, or the obtaining, by such judgment, of some right or property which has been taken or More...
  • RECREANT
    Coward or craven. The word pronounced by a combatant in the trial by battel, when he acknowledged himself beaten. 3 Bl. Comm. 340.
  • RECRIMINATION
    A charge made by an accused person against the accuser; in particular a counter-charge of adultery or cruelty made by one charged with the same offense in a suit for divorce, against the person who has charged him or her. Wharton. Recrimination is a showing by the defendant of any More...
  • RECRUIT
    A newly-enlisted soldier.
  • RECTA PRISA REGIS
    In old English law. The king's right to priaage, or taking of one butt or pipe of wine before and another behind the mast as a custom for every ship laden with wines. Cowell.
  • RECTIFICATION
    Rectification of instrument. In English law. To rectify is to correct or define something which is erroneous or doubtful. Thus, where the parties to an agreement have determined to embody its terms in the appropriate and conclusive form, but the instrument meant to effect this purpose (e. p., a conveyance, More...
  • RECTIFIER
    As used in the United States Internal revenue laws, this term is not confined to a person who runs spirits through charcoal, but is applied to any one who rectifies or purifies spirits in any manner whatever, or who makes a mixture of spirits with anything else, and sells it More...
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