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congress, and effecting the necessary change 8 in their internal government, after the close of the civil war. RECONTINUANCE seems to be used to signify that a person has recovered an in corporeal hereditament of which he had been wrongfully deprived. Thus, "A. is disseised of a mannor, whereunto an advowson is ap pendant, an estranger [i. e., neither A. nor the disseisor] usurpes to the advowson; if the disseisee [A.] enter into the mannor, the advowson is recontinued again, which was severed by the usurpation. * * * And so note a diversitie between a recontinuance and a remitter; for a remitter cannot be properly, unlesse there be two titles; but a re continuance may be where there is but one." Co. Litt. 3636; Sweet. RECONVENIRE. Lat. In the canon and civil law. To make a cross-demand up on the actor, or plaintiff. 4 Reeve, Eng. Law, 14, and note, (r.) RECONVENTION. In the civil law. An action by a defendant against a plaintiff in a former action; a cross-bill or litigation. The term is used in practice in the states of Louisiana and Texas, derived from the re conventio of the civil law. Reconvention is not identical with set-off, but more exten sive. See 6 Tex. 414; 5 Tex. 501, 504. RECONVERSION. That imaginary process by which a prior constructive conver sion is annulled, and the converted property restored in contemplation of law to its original state. RECONVEYANCE takes place where a mortgage debt is paid off, and the mort gaged property is conveyed again to the mort gagor or his representatives free from the mortgage debt. Sweet. RECOPILACION DE INDIAS. A collection of Spanish colonial law, promul gated A. D. 1680. See Schm. Civil Law, In trod. 94. RECORD, v. To register or enroll; to write out on parchment or paper, or in a book, for the purpose of preservation and perpetual memorial; to transcribe a docu ment, or enter the history of an act or series of acts, in an official volume, for the purpose of giving notice of the same, of furnishing authentic evidence, and for preservation. RECORD, n. A written account of some act, transaction, or instrument, drawn up.

tion may suggest to him as necessary to the truth. This is necessary to the validity of the deposition. See Foth. Froc. Crim. § 4, art. 4. RECOMMENDATION. In feudal law. A method of converting allodial land into feudal property. The owner of the allod sur rendered it to the king or a lord, doing hom age, and received it back as a benefice or feud, to hold to himself and such of his heirs as he had previously nominated to the supe rior. The act of one person in giving to another a favorable account of the character, respon sibility, or skill of a third. RECOMMENDATORY. Precatory, ad visory, or directory. Recommendatory words in a will are such as do not express the tes tator'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 de fendant pleads compensation, i. e., set-off, the plaintiff may allege a compensation on his part; and this is called a "recompensa tion." Bell. RECOMPENSE. A reward for services; remuneration for goods or other property. RECOMPENSE OR RECOVERY IN VALUE. That part of the judgment in a "common recovery" by which the tenant is declared entitled 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. RECONCILIATION. The renewal of amicable relations between two persons who had been at enmity or variance; usually im plying forgiveness of injuries on one or both sides. It is sometimes used in the law of di vorce as a term synonymous or analogous to "condonation." RECONDUCTION. In the civil law. A renewing of a former lease; relocation. Dig. 19,2, 13,11; Code Nap. arts. 1737-1740. RECONSTRUCTION. The name com monly given to the process of reorganizing, by acts of congress and executive action, the government* of the states which had passed ordinances of secession, and of re-establishing their constitutional relations to the national government, restoring their representation in

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