Recompense

A reward for seryices; remuneration for goods or other properly. In maritime law, there is a distinction between "recompense" and "restitution." When goods have been lost by jettison, if at any subsequent period of the voyage the remainder of the cargo be lost, the owner of the goods lost by jettison cannot claim restitution from the owners of the other goods; but in the case of expenses incurred with a view to the general benefit, it is clear that they ought to be made good to the party, whether he be an agent employed by the master in a foreign port, or the shipowner himself. RECOMPENSE OF RECOVERY IN value. A phrase applied to the matter recovered in a common recovery, after the vouchee has disappeared, and judgment is given for the demandant.

2 Bouv. Inst. note 2093.