RECOGNIZEE. He for whose use a recognizance has been taken.
RECOGNISOR, contracts. He who enters into a recognizance.
RECOLEMENT, French law. The reading and reexamination by a witness of a de-position, and his persistance in the saine, or his making such alteration1, as his better recollection may enable him to do, after having read his deposition2. Without such reexamination the deposition is void. Poth. Proced. Cr. s. 4, art. 4.
RECOMMENDATION. The giving to a person a favorable character of another.
2. When the party giving the character has acted in good faith, he is not responsible for the injury which a third person, to whom such recommendation was given, may have, sustained in consequence of it, although he was mistaken.
3. But when the recommendation is knowingly untrue, and an injury is sustained, the party recommending is civilly responsible for damages; 3 T. R. 51; 7 Cranch, 69; 14 Wend. 126; 7 Wend. 1; 6 Penn. St. R. 310 whether it was done merely for the purpose of benefitting the party recommended, or the party who gives the recommendation.
4. And in case the party recomended was a debtor3 to the one recommending, and it was agreed prior to the transaction, that the former should, out of the property to be obtained by the recommendation, be paid; or in case of any other species of collusion, to cheat the person to whom the credit is given, they may both be criminally prosecuted4 for the conspiracy5. Vide Character, and Fell on Guar. ch. 8; 6 Johns. R. 181; 1 Davis Ca. Er. 22; 13 Johns. R. 224; 5 N. S. 443.
RECOMPENSATION, Scolch law. When a party sues for a debt, and the defendant6 pleads compensation, or set-off, the plaintiff may allege7 a compensation on his part, and this is called a recompensation. Bell's Dict. h. t.
RECOMPENSE. A reward for services; remuneration for goods or other property.
2. In maritime8 law there is a distinction between recompense and restitution9. When goods have been lost by jettison10, if at any subsequent period of the voyage the remainder of the cargo11 be lost, the owner of the goods lost by jettison cannot claim restitution from the owners of the other goods; but in the case of expenses incurred12 with a view to the general benefit, it is clear that they ought to be made good to the party, whether he be an agent employed by the master in a foreign port or the ship owner himself.
