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to make a good tenant to the prMpe, is removed by 

 the provifions of the llatute J4 Geo. II. c. 20. which 

 enafts, with a retrofpedl and coiiformity to the ancient rule 

 of law, that, though the legal freehold be velted in Icli'ees, 

 yet thofe who are entitled to the next freehold ell ate in re- 

 mainder or reverfion may make a good tenant to the prte- 

 c!pt; — that, though the deed or Hue which creates fuch 

 tenant be fubleqiient to the judgment of recovery, yet, if 

 it be in the fame term, the recovery (liall be valid in law ; 

 —and that, though the recovery itfelf do not appear to be 

 entered, or be not regulaly entered, on record, yet tlie 

 deed to make a tenant to the precipe, and declare the nfes 

 of the recovery, fiiall after a polfefiion of twenty years be 

 fufficient evidence, on behalf of a purchafor for valuable 

 confideration, that fuch recovery was duly fufFcred. And 

 this may fuffice to give the ftudcnt a general idea of com- 

 mon recoveries, the lall fpecies of afl'urances by matter of 

 record. 



For an account of deeds to lead, or declare, the ufts of 

 fines, and recoveries ; fee U.sks. 



In fome manors, by fpecial cuftom, recoveries may be 

 fufFiired of copyhold (Moor, 637.) ; but aa thcle differ 

 in nothing material from recoveries of free land, excepting 

 only that they are not fuffered in the king's courts, but in 

 the court baron of the manor, we fhall refer this fubjeft 

 to the article Sukrendku. In this place we (liall obi'erve, 

 however, that a fine or recovery had of copyhold lands in 

 the king's court may, if not duly revcriVd, ;Jter the tenure 

 of the lands, and convert them into frank-fee, which is de- 

 fined in the old book of tenures to be " land pleadable at the 

 common law:" but upon an aftion on the caie, in the nature 

 of a writ of " deceit," brought by the lord in the king's 

 court, fuch line or recovery will be reverfed, the lord will 

 recover his jurifditlion, and the lands will be reltored to their 

 former Hate of copyhold. Blackft. Com. b. li. 



Clerh of Inrolments of Recoveries and Fines. See Ci.eiik. 



Recoveti-y, Fort, in Geography, a fort of America, fn 

 the Indiana territory, lituated on a branch of the Wabafh 

 river, about 23 miles from Greenville. It confiits of two 

 block-ln^ufes, and barracks with curtains, fufficient for 60 

 men. 



RECOUPE, French ; formed of re, and couper, to cut 

 again, in Laiv, to rebate, or dilcount. 



Tims, if a man have ten pounds iifuing out of certain 

 lands, and he diflfeifes the tenant of the land ; in an affife 

 brought by the diileifee, if he recover the land and damages, 

 the diffeifor lliall recoupe the rent due in the damages. 



Recoupe alfo denotes a quick, Iharp reply, to a peremp- 

 tory demand. See Repartee. 



RECREANT, in our old Law-Boohs, implies cowardly, 

 faint-hearted. 



Hence recreciniife. See Craven and Champion'. 



Recreant was fo reproachful a word, that Glanville would 

 not defcribe it. Recreantes equi is ufed by Fleta, lib. ii. 

 cap. 2. for dull, jaded horfes. 



RECREATION Island, in Geography, a fertile idand 

 in the Southern Pacific ocean, difcovei-ed by Roggewin in 

 the year 1722. Some of the Ihip's company obtained a 

 quantity of antifcorbutic herbs ; but upon venturing into the 

 country, they were aflaulted by the natives, who, by calling 

 ftones at them, killed fome, and wounded almoil all. Many 

 of the iflanders were killed by the fire-arms in return. The 

 foil produces fugar-canes, cocoa-nuts, pomegranates, Indian 

 figs, &c. The inhabitants were well made, • robull, aiiJ 

 very lively : their bodies were painted, and they were armed. 

 S. lat. i6=. W. long. 148^ 



RECREMENT, RecireMENTUM, in Medicine, fotne 

 Vol,. XXIX. 



fuperfiuous matter feparated from (ome other tJiat iv 

 ufeful. 



In which feufe, it amounts to oiuch the fame with faecet, 

 or excrement. 



Recrements of vegetables are ufeful z» manure. 



Recrement is fometimes alfo ufed to denote fuch fe- 

 crcted juices in the body, as arc afterwards of ule in the 

 economy ; as the lympha, gall, &c. which are thus called, 

 in contradiftinilion to excrements, which are expelled out of 

 the bodv, as of no farther ufe. 



RECRIMINATION, a potterior accufation brought 

 by the aecufed againft his accufer, upon the iajane faft. 



When two partii r, have made their mutual complaint at 

 the fame time ; the bulinefs is, firll, to determine who fhaU 

 be the accufer, and who the aecufed, i. e. on whom ftalJ 

 fall the ri'crimination. 



By ttie French laws, recrimination is of no force till the 

 criminal hatli been purged legally. 



RECRUDESCENCE, Recrudescbntia, in Medi- 

 cine, is a relapfe, when a difeafe that has gone off returns 

 again. 



RECRUITS, in the Military Art, new men raifed to 

 fupply the places of fuch as have loll their lives in the fer- 

 vice, or are rendered unferviceable by age or wounds. See 

 Listing. 



RECUUlT-ZTor/fj-, are the horfes brought up for com- 

 pleting the regiments of horfe or dragoons every year. 



RECTANGLE, in Geometry, called alfo oblong, and 

 long fquare, a quadrilateral rectangular figure M L I K, 

 [Plate XII. Geometry, Jig. 3.) whole oppofite fides, ML 

 and I K, as well as M 1 and L K, are equal. 



Or, a reftangle is a parallelogram, whofe fides arc ua- 

 equal, but its angles right. 



To Jind the area of a reSangle, fee PARALLELOGRAM. 



If from the fame point A, (Jig. 4-) be drawn two lines, 

 one of which, A D, is a tangent to a circle, the other a 

 fecant A B ; the fquare of the tangent A D will be equal to 

 the reftangle under tlie fecant A B, and that part of it with- 

 out the circle A C. If two or more fecants, A. a, A B, 

 &c. be drawn from the fame point A ; the reftangles, un- 

 der their wholes, and their parts without the circle, will be 

 equal. If two chords interfeft each other, the reftangles 

 under their fegments will be equal. The reftangles under 

 equal lines are equal. The lum of all the reftangles 

 contained under a given line, and all the parts of another 

 any how divided, is equal ta the redlangle contained under 

 the two whole lines. If from any point, within a reclangle, 

 to the angles of a rectangle, four lines be draw-n, the fums 

 of the fquares of thofe di-a\\n to the oppofite angles will be 

 equal. The rectangles contained under the correfponding 

 fides of equiangular triangles, taken alternately, are equal. 

 The reClangle under the two fides of any triangle is equal to 

 the rectangle under the perpendicular to its bafe, and the 

 diameter of the circumfcribing circle. The fquare of a line 

 bifeding any angle of a triangle, and terminating in the op- 

 pofite lide, together with tiie reftangle under the two feg- 

 m.ents of that fide, is equal to the reftangle of the two fides, 

 including the propofed angle. The rectangle of the two 

 diagonals of any quadrilateral infcribed in a circle, is equal 

 to the fum of the two rectangles contained under the oppo- 

 fide fides. 



Rectangles, Similar. See Similar. 



RErTANCLE, in Arithmetic, is the fame with produft or 

 fadtum. 



RECTANGLED, Right-angled, Triangle, is a tri- 

 angle, one of whole angles is right, or equal to 90°. See 

 Triangle. 



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