Meaning

The act of beating or striking back..

Definitions by Sense

1. The act of beating or striking back.
2. (law) The cancellation of all or part of a judgment.
3. Misspelling of recursion.

Example Sentences

Neither the recussion, nor the retrocession of the sea, were as violent as might have been expected.

The brig reeled under the recussion of the simultaneous discharge of all her larboard guns, and her captain, leaning over the gun in the after port closely watched the effect upon the schooner, which, when last seen, was not half a mile distant.

As soon as the heart relaxes, at the beginning of the diastole, the semilunar valves close, and the recussion of the blood causes the greatest pressure near the valves.

Also, at the end of 30 years, over the 1260, or into the period of judgment, we are to expect, not a remarkable event, but some alteration in the course of judgment, some recussion or increase of it, or something worthy to be noted, which may perhaps discover itself in the course of our progress.

providing that the Judge of the District Court having jurisdiction of the case shall grant the application fixing the amount and conditions of the bond precedent thereto, providing for the service of a copy of the petition, writs, and citation, fixing the return day, and making it obligatory upon the Justice of the Peace to send up to the District Court a certified copy of all minutes and entries on the Justice of the Peace Court Docket in the case together with all original filings, and a written statement of the Justice of the Peace setting forth his reasons for not granting the appeal, or allowing suit for recussion of judgment to be filed, and providing a penalty for the failure of the Justice of the Peace to do so;

A party in justice's court may remit a part of his demand so as to bring it within the jurisdiction of the justice, but the recussion must be absolute for all demands in excess of the jurisdiction, for "remission" implies forgiveness, and means a voluntary relinquishment of a claim or a part thereof by one capable of asserting it, and does not refer to the extinguishment of a debt by agreement of the parties , or by judgment of the court .

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