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  • 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...
  • 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.
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