Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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, resulting in an infringement <the replacement of the machine's essential parts was an infringing reconstruction rather than a permissible repair>. 3. (cap.) The process by which the Southern states that had seceded during Civil War were readmitted into the Union -, ing the years following the war (i.e., from I n65 to 1877) <the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution are a lasting legacy of Reconstruction>.