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RECKLESS DISREGARD

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Gross negligence with an indifference to the harmful effect upon others. … [Read more...]

RECKLESS DRIVING

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Driving a motor vehicle in a reckless and careless manner, a misdemeanor. … [Read more...]

RECKLESSNESS

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Rashness; heedlessness; wanton conduct The state of mind accompanying an act, which either pays no regard to its probably or possibly injurious consequences, or which, though foreseeing such consequences, persists in spite of such knowledge. See Railroad Co. v. Bodemer, 139 III. 596, 29 N. E. 692, 82 Am. St. Rep. 218; Com. v. Pierce, 138 Mass. 165, 52 Am. Rep. 264; Railway Co. … [Read more...]

RECLAIM

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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 reclaim goods which were obtained from one under false pretenses. In feudal law, It was used of the action of a lord pursuing, prosecuting, and recalling his vassal, who had gone to live … [Read more...]

RECLAIMED ANIMALS

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Those that are made tame by art, industry, or education, whereby a qualified property may be acquired in them. … [Read more...]

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