RECOGNITION
recognition,n.1. Confirmation that an act done by another person was authorized. See
RATIFICATION. [Cases: Principal and Agent 170(2).C.J.S. Agency § 88.] 2. The formal
admission that a person, entity, or thing has a particular status; esp. a nation’s act in formally
acknowledging the existence of another nation or national government. 3.Parliamentary law. The
chair’s acknowledgment that a member is entitled to the floor <the chair recognizes the delegate
from Minnesota>. See PRECEDENCE(4).
“When any member desires to speak or deliver any matter to the house, that person should
rise and respectfully address the presiding officer. When the presiding officer recognizes the
member by calling the member by name or by indicating recognition, that person is entitled to the
floor and may address the body or present a matter of business, but may not yield the floor to any
other member.” National Conference of State Legislatures, Mason’s Manual of Legislative
Procedure § 91, at 76–77 (2000).
4.Tax. The act or an instance of accounting for a taxpayer’s realized gain or loss for the
purpose of income-tax reporting. Cf. NONRECOGNITION PROVISION; REALIZATION(2).
[Cases: Internal Revenue 3115, 3178; Taxation 996. C.J.S. Internal Revenue §§ 61, 110;
Taxation §§ 1732–1733.] 5. An employer’s acknowledgment that a union has the right to act as a
bargaining agent for employees. [Cases: Labor Relations 191. C.J.S. Labor Relations § 162.]
6.Int’l law. Official action by a country acknowledging, expressly or by implication, de jure or de
facto, the existence of a government or a country, or a situation such as a change of territorial
sovereignty. Cf. NONRECOGNITION. [Cases: International Law 4. C.J.S. International Law §§
9–11.] 7.RULE OF RECOGNITION. — recognize,vb. [Blacks Law 8th]