KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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RECOLEMENT

RECLAIM

fined at hard labor in a penal Institution, and carrying civil degradation. See Phelps v. Reinach, 38 La. Ann. 551; Jurgens v. Itt man, 47 La. Ann. 367, 16 South. 952. RECOGNITION. . Ratification; confir mation ; an acknowledgment that something done by another person in one's name had one's authority. An inquiry conducted by a chosen body of men, not sitting as part of the court, into the facts in dispute in a case at law; these "recognitors" preceded the jurymen of mod ern times, and reported their recognition or verdict to the court Stim. Law Gloss. RECOGNITIONS ADNULLANDA PER VIM ET DURITIEM FACTA. 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 if it so appear the recognizance may be annulled. Reg. Orig. 183. RECOGNITORS. In English law. 'The name by which the jurors impaneled on an assize are known. See RECOGNITION. The word is sometimes met in modern books, as meaning the person who enters into a recognizance, being thus another form of recognizor. RECOGNIZANCE. An obligation of rec ord, entered into before some court of record, or magistrate duly authorized, with condi tion to do some particular act; as to appear at the assizes, or criminal court, to keep the peace, to pay a debt, or the like. It resem bles a bond, but differs from It in being an acknowledgment of a former debt upon rec ord. 2 Bl. Comm. 341. See U. S. v. Insley (C. C.) 49 Fed. 778; State v. Walker, 56 N. H. 178; Crawford v. Vinton, 102 Mich. 83, 62 N. W. 988; State v. Grant, 10 Minn. 48 (Gil. 22), Longley v. Vose, 27 Me. 179; Coin, v. Emery, 2 Bin. (Pa.) 431. In criminal law, a person who has been found guilty of an offense may, in certain cases, be required to enter Into a recogni zance by which he binds himself to keep the peace for a certain period. Sweet. In the practice of several of the states, a recognizance is a species of ball-bond or se curity, given by the prisoner either on being bound over for trial or on his taking an appeal. 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

consequences, or which, though foreseeing such consequences, persists in spite of such knowledge. See Railroad Co. v. Bodemer, 139 111. 596, 29 N. E. 692, 32 Am. St. Rep. 218; Com. v. Pierce, 138 Mass. 165, 52 Am. Rep. 264; Railway Co. v. Whipple, 39 Kan. 531, 18 Pac. 730; Eddy v. Powell, 49 Fed 817, 1 C. C. A. 448; Harrison v. State, 37 Ala. 156. RECLAIM. To claim or demand back; to ask for the 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 re claim goods which were obtained from one under false pretenses. In feudal law, it was used of the action of a lord pursuing, prosecuting, and recall ing his vassal, who had gone to live In an other place, without his permission. In international law, it denotes the de manding of a thing or person to be delivered up or surrendered to the government or state to which either properly belongs, when, by an irregular means, it has come into the pos session of another. Wharton. In the law of property. Spoken of ani mals, to reduce from a wild to a tame or do mestic state; to tame them. In an analo gous sense, to reclaim land is to reduce marshy or swamp land to a state fit for cul tivation and habitation. In Scotch law. To appeal. The reclaim ing days in Scotland are the days allowed to a party dissatisfied with the judgment of the lord ordinary to appeal therefrom to the in ner house; and the petition of appeal Is called the reclaiming "bill," "note," or "peti tion." Mozley & Whitley; Bell. Those that are made tame by art, industry, or educa tion, whereby a qualified property may be acquired in them. RECLAIMING BILL. In Scotch law. A petition of appeal or review of a judg ment of the lord ordinary or other inferior court. Bell. RECLAMATION DISTRICT. A subdi vision of a state created by legislative au thority, for the purpose of reclaiming swamp, marshy, or desert lands within its bounda ries 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. In French law and In Louisiana. Incarceration as a punishment for crime; a temporary, afflictive, and in famous punishment, consisting in being con RECLAIMED ANIMALS. RECLUSION.