Law Dictionary Definitions

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]

reconventione (ree-k<<schwa>>n-ven-shee-oh-nee). [Law Latin] Hist. By reconvention. See  RECONVENTION. [Blacks Law 8th]

reconventional demand.See DEMAND(1). [Blacks Law 8th]

reconvention.Civil law. The act or process of making a counterclaim. See COUNTERCLAIM. [Cases: Set-off and Counterclaim 6. C.J.S. Set-off and Counterclaim §§ 2, 11.] [Blacks Law 8th]

recontinuance.Hist. 1. Resumption or renewal. 2. The recovery of an incorporeal hereditament that had been wrongfully deprived. [Blacks Law 8th]

reconstruction. 1. The act or process of rebuilding, re-creating, or reorganizing something <an expert in accident reconstruction>.2.Patents. A rebuilding of a broken, worn-out, or otherwise inoperative patented article in such a way that a new article is created, thus resulting in an infringement <the replacement of the machine’s essential parts was an infringing reconstruction rather…