Recolement — Law Dictionary

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

In French law. The reading and re-examination by a witness of a deposition, and his persistence in the same, or his making such alteration as his better recollection may enable him to do after having read his deposition. Without such re-examination, the deposition is void. Poth. Proc. Crim. § 4, art. 4.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In French law. This is the process by which a witness, who has given hls deposition, reads the same over and scrutinizes it, with a view to affirming his satisfaction with it as it stands, or to making such changes in it as his better recollection may suggest to him as necessary to the truth. This is necessary to the validity of the deposition. See Poth. Proc. Crim. § 4, art. 4.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States

John Bouvier · 1839

tn the French law, is the reading and re-examination by a witness of a deposition, and his persistance in the same, or his making such alteration, as his better recollection may enable him to do, after having read his deposition. Without such re-examination the deposition is void. Poth. Procéd. Cr. s. 4, art. 4.