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recordation (rek-<<schwa>>r-day-sh<<schwa>>n), n. The act or process of recording an instrument, such as a deed or mortgage, in a public registry. • Recordation generally perfects a person’s interest in the property against later purchasers (including later mortgagees), but the effect of recordation depends on the type of recording act in effect. — Also termed recordal.…

recordari facias loquelam (ree-kor-dair-Ifay-shee-<<schwa>>s l<<schwa>>-kwee-l<<schwa>>m), n.[Law Latin “you cause the plaint to be recorded”] Hist. In England, a writ by which a suit or plaint in replevin could be removed from a county court to a superior court (esp. to one of the courts of Westminster Hall). — Abbr. re. fa. lo.See PLAINT(1). [Blacks Law…

recordari (ree-kor-dair-I). A writ to bring up for review, as a substitute for an appeal, a judgment of a justice of the peace or other court not of record. • Writs of recordari are most common in North Carolina but are used infrequently in other states. — Also spelled recordare. [Blacks Law 8th]

recordare (ree-kor-dair-ee), n.[Law Latin] See RECORDARI. [Blacks Law 8th]

recordal. See RECORDATION. [Blacks Law 8th]

record agent.See INSURANCE AGENT. [Blacks Law 8th]

recorda (ri-kor-d<<schwa>>).Hist. In England, records that contained the judgments and pleadings in actions tried before the barons of the Exchequer. Cf. ORIGINALIA. [Blacks Law 8th]

record,n.1. A documentary account of past events, usu. designed to memorialize those events. Information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that, having been stored in an electronic or other medium, is retrievable in perceivable form. UCC § 5-102(14). 3.MINUTES(2).4. The official report of the proceedings in a case, including the filed papers, a…

reconveyance,n. The restoration or return of something (esp. an estate or title) to a former owner or holder. — reconvey,vb. [Blacks Law 8th]

reconversion. The notional or imaginary process by which an earlier constructive conversion (a change of personal into real property or vice versa) is annulled and the converted property restored to its original character. See equitable conversion under CONVERSION(1). [Cases: Conversion 22. C.J.S. Conversion § 32.] [Blacks Law 8th]