A reward for services; remuneration for goods or other property
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That part of the judgment in a "common recovery” by which the tenant is declared entltled 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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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
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In Scotland, where a party sues for a debt, and the de-fendant pleads compensation, i. e., set-ofT, the plaintiff may allege a compensation on his part; and this is called a “recompensation.” BelL
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In French law. This is the process by which a witness, who has
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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 hlmself aud such of hls heirs as he had previously nominated to the superior
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An obllgation of record, entered into before some court of record, or magistrate duly authorized, with condition to do some particular act; as to appear at the assizes, or crlminal court, to keep the peace, to pay a debt, or the llke. It resembles a bond, but differs from it in being an acknowledgment of a former debt npon record. 2 Rl. Comm. 341. See U. S. v. Insley (C. C.) 49 Fed. 778; State v. walker, 56 N
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To try; to examine in order to determlne the truth of a matter. Also to enter into a recognizance
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A writ to the justices of the common bench for send-ing a record touching a recognizance, which the recognizor suggests was acknowledged by force and duress; that lf it so appear the recognizance may be annulled. Reg. orlg. 183
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In Engllsh law. The name by which the jurors impaneled on an assize are known. See Rbcoonitior
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In French law and in Louisiana. Incarceration as a punlshment for crime; a temporary, afflictlve, and infamous punishment, consisting in belng con
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Ratlficatlon; confirmation; an acknowledgment that something done hy another person in one’s name had one’s authority
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In Scotch law. A petitlon of appeal or review of a judgment of the lord ordlnary or other Inferior court. Bell
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A subdivision of a state created by legislative authority, for the purpose of reclaiming swamp, marshy, or desert lands within Its boundaries and rendering them fit for habitation or cultivation, generally with funds raised by local taxation or the issue of bonds, and sometimes with authority to make rules or ordinances for the regulation of the work in hand
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To claim or demand back; to ask for tbe return or restoration of a thing; to Insist upon one’s right to recover that which was one’s own, but was parted with conditionally or mistakenly; as, to reclaim goods which were obtained from one nnder false pretenses
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Those that are made tame by art, lndustry, or education, whereby a qualified property may be acquired in them
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To state in a written Instrn ment facts connected with Its inception, or reasons for Its being made. Also to quote or set forth the words or the contents of some other instrument or document; as, to “re-cite” a statute. See Hart v. Baltimore & 0. R. Co., 6 W. Va. 348
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Rashness; heedless-ness; wanton conduct. The state of mind accompanying an act. which either pays no regard to its probably or possibly injurious
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Mutuality. The term is used in international law to denote the relatlon existing between two states when each of them gives the subjects of the other cer-tain privileges, on condition that its own subjects shall enjoy similar privileges at the hands of the latter state. Sweet
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The formal statement or set-ting forth of some matter of fact, in any deed or wrltlng, in order to explain the reasons upon which the transaction is founded. The recitals are situated in the premises of a deed, that is, in that part of a deed be-tween the date and the habendum, and they usually commence with the formal word “whereas." Brown
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A con-tract, the partles to whlch enter lnto mutual engagements. A mutual or bilateral con-tract
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wills made by two or more persons in which they make reciprocal testamentary provlslons in favor of each other, whether they unite in one will or each executes a separate one. In re Caw-ley’s Estate, 136 Pa. 628, 20 Atl. 567, 10 L
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Lat. In old English law. A going back; reliction or retreat of the sea
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