TO RECORD, the act of making a record.2. Sometimes questions arise as to when the act of recording is complete, as in the following case. A deed of re...
RECOMPENSE OP RECOVERY IN VALUE. This phrase, is applied to the matter recovered in a common recovery, after the vouchee has disappeared, and judgment...
RECOGNIZEE. He for whose use a recognizance has been taken.RECOGNISOR, contracts. He who enters into a recognizance.RECOLEMENT, French law. The readin...
RECLAIM. To demand again, to insist upon a right; as, when a defendant for a consideration received from the plaintiff, has covenanted to do an act, a...
RECITAL, contracts, pleading. The repetition of some former writing, or the statement of something which has been done. Touchst. 76.2. Recitals are us...
RECESSION. A re-grant: the act of returning the title of a country to a go- vernment which formerly held it, by one which has it at the time; as the r...
RECEIPTOR. In Massachusetts this name is given to the person who, on a trustee process being issued and goods attached, becomes surety to the sheriff ...
RECEIPT, contracts. A receipt is an acknowledgment in writing that the party giving the same has received from the person therein named, the money or ...
TO RECALL, international law. To deprive a minister of his functions; to supersede him.TO RECALL A JUDGMENT. To reverse a judgment on a matter, of fac...
REBELLION, COMMISSION OF. A commission of rebellion is the name of a writ issuing out of chancery to compel the defendant to appear. Vide Commission o...