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Reconvention
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ReconventionCivil law. An action brought by a party who is defendant against the plaintiff before the same judge.
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Civil
1) It is used in contradistinction to barbarous or savage, to indicate a state of society reduced to order and regular government; thus we speak of civil life, civil society, civil government, and civil liberty. 2) It is sometimes used in contradistinction to criminal, to indicate the private rights and remedies of men, as members of the community, in contrast to those which are public and relate to the government; thus we speak of civil process and criminal process, civil jurisdiction and criminal jurisdiction.
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Action
1) French commercial. Stock in a company, shares in a corporation. 2)Civil law. An action instituted to avoid a sale onaccount of some Vice or defect in the thing sold which readers it either absolutely useless, or its use so inconvenient and, imperfect, that it must be, supposed the buyer would not have purchased it, had he known of the vice.
Party
Practice, contracts. When applied to practice, by party is understood either the plaintiff or defendant. In contracts, a party is one or more persons who engage to perform or receive the performance of some agreement.
Defendant
A party who is sued in a personal action.
Plaintiff
The party who begins an action; the party who complains or sues in an action and is named as such in the court's records. Also called a petitioner.
Judge
An elected or appointed public official with authority to hear and decide cases in a court of law.
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Recognisor
Contracts. He who enters into a recognizance.
Recognition
Contracts. An acknowledgment that something which has been done by one man in the name of another, was done by authority of the latter.
Recognition of foreign judgments
In the conflict of laws, the rules and principles applied by courts in determining whether or not to recognize and enforce a judgment rendered by a foreign court or an arbitral award rendered by a foreign arbitral tribunal.
Recognitors
English law. The name by which the jurors impanneled on an assize are known.
Recognizance
Contracts. An obligation of record entered into before a court or officer duly authorized for that purpose, with a condition to do some act required by law, which is therein specified.
Recognizee
He for whose use a recognizance has been taken.
Recolement
French law. The reading and reexamination by a witness of a de-position, and his persistance in the saine, or his making such alteration, as his better recollection may enable him to do, after having read his deposition.
Recommendation
The giving to a person a favorable character of another.
Recompensation
Scotch law. When a party sues for a debt, and the defendant pleads compensation, or set-off, the plaintiff may allege a compensation on his part, and this is called a recompensation.
Recompense
A reward for services; remuneration for goods or other property.
Recompense or recovery in value
This phrase, is applied to the matter recovered in a common recovery, after the vouchee has disappeared, and judgment is given for the demandant.
Reconciliation
Contracts. The act of bringing persons to agree together, who before, had had some difference.
Reconduction
Civil law. A renewing of a former lease; relocation.
Reconveyance
A transfer of realty back to the original or former grantor.
Record
1) Evidence. A written memorial made by a public officer authorized by law to perform that function, and intended to serve as evidence of something written, said, or done. 2) To record. The act of making a record.
Record of nisi prius
English law. A transcript from the issue roll; it contains a copy of the pleadings and issue.
Recordari facias loquelam
English practice. A writ commanding the sheriff, that he cause the plaint to be recorded which is in his county, without writ, between the parties there named, of the cattle, goods, and chattels of the complainant taken and unjustly distrained as it is said, and that he have the said record before the court on a day therein named, and that he prefix the same day to the parties, that then they may be there ready to proceed in the same plaint
Recordatur
An order or allowance that the verdict returned on the nisi prius roll, be recorded.
Recorder
1) A judicial officer of some cities, possessing generally the powers and authority of a judge. Anciently, recorder signified to recite or testify on re-collection as occasion might require what had previously passed in court, and this was the duty of the judges, thence called recordeurs. 2) An officer appointed to make record or onrolment of deeds and other legal instruments, authorized by law to be recorded.
Recoupe
To recoupe. 1) This word is derived from the French recouper, to cut again. In law it signifies the right and the act of making a set-off, defalcation, or discount, by the defendant, to the claim of the plaintiff. 2) In another sense it signifies to recompense.
Recoverer
The demandant in a common recovery, after judgment has been given in his favor, assumes the name of recoverer.
Recovery
A recovery, in its most extensive sense, is the restoration of a former right, by the solemn judgment of a Court of justice.
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Recompensation
Scotch law. When a party sues for a debt, and the defendant pleads compensation, or set-off, the plaintiff may allege a compensation on his part, and this is called a recompensation.
Recompense
A reward for services; remuneration for goods or other property.
Recompense or recovery in value
This phrase, is applied to the matter recovered in a common recovery, after the vouchee has disappeared, and judgment is given for the demandant.
Reconciliation
Contracts. The act of bringing persons to agree together, who before, had had some difference.
Reconduction
Civil law. A renewing of a former lease; relocation.
Reconvention
Reconveyance
A transfer of realty back to the original or former grantor.
Record
1) Evidence. A written memorial made by a public officer authorized by law to perform that function, and intended to serve as evidence of something written, said, or done. 2) To record. The act of making a record.
Record of nisi prius
English law. A transcript from the issue roll; it contains a copy of the pleadings and issue.
Recordari facias loquelam
English practice. A writ commanding the sheriff, that he cause the plaint to be recorded which is in his county, without writ, between the parties there named, of the cattle, goods, and chattels of the complainant taken and unjustly distrained as it is said, and that he have the said record before the court on a day therein named, and that he prefix the same day to the parties, that then they may be there ready to proceed in the same plaint
Recordatur
An order or allowance that the verdict returned on the nisi prius roll, be recorded.
RELATED TERMS--------------------------------------
Civil
1) It is used in contradistinction to barbarous or savage, to indicate a state of society reduced to order and regular government; thus we speak of civil life, civil society, civil government, and civil liberty. 2) It is sometimes used in contradistinction to criminal, to indicate the private rights and remedies of men, as members of the community, in contrast to those which are public and relate to the government; thus we speak of civil process and criminal process, civil jurisdiction and criminal jurisdiction.
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Action
1) French commercial. Stock in a company, shares in a corporation. 2)Civil law. An action instituted to avoid a sale onaccount of some Vice or defect in the thing sold which readers it either absolutely useless, or its use so inconvenient and, imperfect, that it must be, supposed the buyer would not have purchased it, had he known of the vice.
Party
Practice, contracts. When applied to practice, by party is understood either the plaintiff or defendant. In contracts, a party is one or more persons who engage to perform or receive the performance of some agreement.
Defendant
A party who is sued in a personal action.
Plaintiff
The party who begins an action; the party who complains or sues in an action and is named as such in the court's records. Also called a petitioner.
Judge
An elected or appointed public official with authority to hear and decide cases in a court of law.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Recognisor
Contracts. He who enters into a recognizance.
Recognition
Contracts. An acknowledgment that something which has been done by one man in the name of another, was done by authority of the latter.
Recognition of foreign judgments
In the conflict of laws, the rules and principles applied by courts in determining whether or not to recognize and enforce a judgment rendered by a foreign court or an arbitral award rendered by a foreign arbitral tribunal.
Recognitors
English law. The name by which the jurors impanneled on an assize are known.
Recognizance
Contracts. An obligation of record entered into before a court or officer duly authorized for that purpose, with a condition to do some act required by law, which is therein specified.
Recognizee
He for whose use a recognizance has been taken.
Recolement
French law. The reading and reexamination by a witness of a de-position, and his persistance in the saine, or his making such alteration, as his better recollection may enable him to do, after having read his deposition.
Recommendation
The giving to a person a favorable character of another.
Recompensation
Scotch law. When a party sues for a debt, and the defendant pleads compensation, or set-off, the plaintiff may allege a compensation on his part, and this is called a recompensation.
Recompense
A reward for services; remuneration for goods or other property.
Recompense or recovery in value
This phrase, is applied to the matter recovered in a common recovery, after the vouchee has disappeared, and judgment is given for the demandant.
Reconciliation
Contracts. The act of bringing persons to agree together, who before, had had some difference.
Reconduction
Civil law. A renewing of a former lease; relocation.
Reconveyance
A transfer of realty back to the original or former grantor.
Record
1) Evidence. A written memorial made by a public officer authorized by law to perform that function, and intended to serve as evidence of something written, said, or done. 2) To record. The act of making a record.
Record of nisi prius
English law. A transcript from the issue roll; it contains a copy of the pleadings and issue.
Recordari facias loquelam
English practice. A writ commanding the sheriff, that he cause the plaint to be recorded which is in his county, without writ, between the parties there named, of the cattle, goods, and chattels of the complainant taken and unjustly distrained as it is said, and that he have the said record before the court on a day therein named, and that he prefix the same day to the parties, that then they may be there ready to proceed in the same plaint
Recordatur
An order or allowance that the verdict returned on the nisi prius roll, be recorded.
Recorder
1) A judicial officer of some cities, possessing generally the powers and authority of a judge. Anciently, recorder signified to recite or testify on re-collection as occasion might require what had previously passed in court, and this was the duty of the judges, thence called recordeurs. 2) An officer appointed to make record or onrolment of deeds and other legal instruments, authorized by law to be recorded.
Recoupe
To recoupe. 1) This word is derived from the French recouper, to cut again. In law it signifies the right and the act of making a set-off, defalcation, or discount, by the defendant, to the claim of the plaintiff. 2) In another sense it signifies to recompense.
Recoverer
The demandant in a common recovery, after judgment has been given in his favor, assumes the name of recoverer.
Recovery
A recovery, in its most extensive sense, is the restoration of a former right, by the solemn judgment of a Court of justice.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Recompensation
Scotch law. When a party sues for a debt, and the defendant pleads compensation, or set-off, the plaintiff may allege a compensation on his part, and this is called a recompensation.
Recompense
A reward for services; remuneration for goods or other property.
Recompense or recovery in value
This phrase, is applied to the matter recovered in a common recovery, after the vouchee has disappeared, and judgment is given for the demandant.
Reconciliation
Contracts. The act of bringing persons to agree together, who before, had had some difference.
Reconduction
Civil law. A renewing of a former lease; relocation.
Reconvention
Reconveyance
A transfer of realty back to the original or former grantor.
Record
1) Evidence. A written memorial made by a public officer authorized by law to perform that function, and intended to serve as evidence of something written, said, or done. 2) To record. The act of making a record.
Record of nisi prius
English law. A transcript from the issue roll; it contains a copy of the pleadings and issue.
Recordari facias loquelam
English practice. A writ commanding the sheriff, that he cause the plaint to be recorded which is in his county, without writ, between the parties there named, of the cattle, goods, and chattels of the complainant taken and unjustly distrained as it is said, and that he have the said record before the court on a day therein named, and that he prefix the same day to the parties, that then they may be there ready to proceed in the same plaint
Recordatur
An order or allowance that the verdict returned on the nisi prius roll, be recorded.
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