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Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

To state in a written instrument facts connected with its Inception or reasons for its being made. Also to quote or set forth the words or the contents of some other instrument or document; as, to "recite" a statute.

See Hart v. Baltimore & O. R. Co., 6 W. Va. 348.