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Recrimination

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

Black's Law Dictionary

A charge made by an accused person against the accuser; in particular a counter-charge of adultery or cruelty made by one charged with the same offense in a suit for divorce, against the person who has charged him or her.

Wharton.

Recrimination is a showing by the defendant of any cause of divorce against the plaintiff, in bar of the plaintiff's cause of divorce.

Civ. Code Cal. § 122. And see Duberstein v. Duberstein, 171 111. 133, 49 N. E. 316; Bohan v. Bohan (Tex. Civ. App.) 56 S. W. 960.