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In Scotland, where a party sues for a debt and the defendant pleads compensation, i.e., set-off, the plaintiff may allege a compensation on his part; and this la called a "recompensation." Bell. … [Read more...] about RECOMPENSATION

The date upon which a shareholder must be registered with a corporation in order to be entitled to vote in shareholder voting and to receive dividend distributions. … [Read more...] about RECORD DATE

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. 21 Wend. It. 342. In another sense it signifies to recompense. 19 Ves. 123. … [Read more...] about RECOUPE

In French law and in Louisiana. Incarceration as a punishment for crime; a temporary, afflictive, and infamous punishment, consisting in being confined at hard labor in a penal Institution, and carrying dvil degradation. See Phelps v. Relnach, 38 La. Ann. 551; Jurgens v. Ittman, 47 La. Ann. 367, 16 South. 952. … [Read more...] about RECLUSION

contracts. He who enters into a recognizance. … [Read more...] about RECOGNISOR