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given his deposition, reads the same over and scrutinizes it, with a view to affirming his satisfaction with it as it stands, or to mak ing such changes In it as his better recollec tion may suggest to him as necessary to the truth. This is necessary to the validity of the deposition. See Poth. Proc. Crim. § 4, art. 4. RECOMMENDATION. 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 himself and such of his heirs as he had previously nominated to the superior. The act of one person in giving to another a favorable account of the character, re sponsibility, or skill of a third. —Letter of recommendation. A writing whereby one person certifies concerning another that he is of good character solvent, possessed of commercial credit, skilled in his trade or pro fession, or otherwise worthy of trust, aid, or employment. It may be addressed to an individ ual or to whom it may concern, and is designed to aid the person commended in obtaining cred it, employment, etc. See McDonald v. Illinois Cent. R. Co., 187 111. 529, 58 N. E. 463; Lord v. Goddard, 13 How. 198, 14 L. Ed. 111. 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 divorce as a term synonymous or analogous to "condonation." RECONDUCTION. In the civil law. A rer-ewing 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 governments of the states which had passed ordinances of secession, and of re-establish ing their constitutional relations to the na tional government, restoring their represen tation in congress, and effecting the neces sary changes in their internal government, after the close of the civil war. See Black, Const. Law (3d Ed.) 48; Texas v. White, 7 Wall. 700, 19 L. Ed. 227. 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 dis seised of a mannor, whereunto an advowson Is appendant, 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 recon tinuance and a remitter; for a remitter can not be properly, unlesse there be two titles; but a recontinuance may be where there is but one." Co. Litt 3636; Sweet 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 extensive. See Pacific Exp. Co. v. Malin, 132 U. S. 531, 10 Sup. Ct 166, 33 L. Ed. 450; Suberville v. Adams, 47 La. Ann. 68, 16 South. 652; Gim bel v. Gomprecht, 89 Tex. 497, 35 S. W. 470. RECONVERSION. That imaginary pro cess by which a prior constructive conversion is annulled, and the converted property re stored in contemplation of law to its orig inal 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 col lection of Spanish colonial law, promulgated A. D. 1680. See Schm. Civil Law, Introd. 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. See Cady v. Purser, 131 Cal. 552, 63 Pac. 844. 82 RECONVENIRE*