Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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Recorda sunt vestigia vetustatis et veritatis
Records are vestiges of antiquity and truth.
recorda
Hist. In England, records that contained the judgments and pleadings in actions tried before the barons of the Exchequer. Cf. ORIGINALIA.
recordal.
See RECORDATION
recordal. record date.
See DATE,
recordare
n. [Law Latin] Hist. A writ to bring up on appeal a judgment of a justice of the peace.
recordari facias loquelam
n. [Law Latin "you cause the plaint to be recorded"] Hist. In England, a writ by which a suit or plaint in replevin could be removed from a county court to a superior court (esp. to one of the courts of Westminster Hall). -Abbr.
recordation
n. The act or process of recording an instrument, such as a deed or mortgage, in a public registry. ( Recordation generally perfects a person's interest in the property against later purchasers (including later mortgagees), but the effect of recordation depends on the type of recording act in effect. - Also termed