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Definition of Recitals
1. recital [n] - See also: recital
Lexicographical Neighbors of Recitals
Literary usage of Recitals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1892)
"recitals. Definition. 2. Estoppel by recitals— a. IN GENERAL.—It is by the applu
cation of the principles of estoppel that the effect of recitals is usually ..."
2. Commentaries on the Law of Municipal Corporations by John Forrest Dillon (1911)
"As to all essential facts one cannot claim to have been misled to his disadvantage
by trusting to false recitals, if he has neglected to examine the public ..."
3. A Practical Treatise on Abstracts and Examinations of Title to Real Property by George William Warvelle (1921)
"recitals. It is customary, and in many cases necessary, to show all the material
recitals in official deeds, notwithstanding that such recitals are regarded ..."
4. A treatise on the law of estoppel and its application in practice by Melville Madison Bigelow (1876)
"CHAPTER X. recitals. A RECITAL in a sealed instrument is denned to be the
preliminary statement of such deeds, agreements, or matters of fact as are ..."
5. A Treatise on the System of Evidence in Trials at Common Law: Including the by John Henry Wigmore (1904)
"So far as recitals of fact therein are offered to prove facts other than the very
doing of the executive act itself, they would seem inadmissible, ..."
6. A Treatise on the Law of Estoppel: And Its Application in Practice by Melville Madison Bigelow (1876)
"2 However, we shall see that recitals are also introduced in other ways, and that
the term is ... There are two kinds of recitals, particular and general. ..."
7. A Treatise on Deeds by Robert Frederick Norton, Robert Hay Dun, Digby Latimer Francis Koe (1906)
"recitals. Variance between recitals and Operative Part: General and Specific ...
MANY deeds, particularly modern deeds, have recitals, and it sometimes ..."
8. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1909)
"Effect of recitals in Deed.—A recital in a deed to a married woman that the ...
Such recitals, however, are not conclusive, but only prima facie of the ..."
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