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Acknowledgement

A mere admission of a past liability is not sufficient to constitute such an `acknowledgement'. Hence a mere recital in a document as to the existence of a past liability, coupled with a statement of its discharge,

Deed

benefit thereby assured to him even if he does not execute the deed. See Halsbury, loc. cit. (b) Recitals. These are either narratives of past facts, or a statement of the purpose of the deed. They are

Deed-poll

a manifesto or declaration to all the world of the grantor's act and intention. If there be no recital it usually speaks in the first person, but where recitals are introduced it speaks in the third person.

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Finding

reached as the result of a judicial examination or investigation by a court, jury, referee, coroner, etc. A recital of the facts as found. The word commonly applies to the result reached by a Judge or jury.

Know-how

very useful colloquial expression of no precise meaning and was used in the agreement in the context of recital and not in relation to the expertise of an individual workman, is very apt and appropriate to include

Whereas

Whereas, a word which implies a recital of a fact. The word whereas when it renders the deed senseless or repugant, may be struck out

Relation

The act of relating or telling also that which is related recital account narration narrative as the relation of historical events

Misrecital

Misrecital, a wrong recital. If it be in the beginning of a deed, which goes not to the end of a deed,

House of correction

paupers and vagrants refusing to work; but by 5 & 6 Wm. 4, c. 38, ss. 3, 4, reciting that great inconvenience and expense had been found to result from the practice of committing to the common

Parcels

a conveyance mortgage, or other assurance. The description may be express and independent, or by reference to the recitals in the deed, or to the subsequent parts of the instru-ment, or to some other instrument (Dav. Prec.

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