Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A recompense.
- n. In Scots law, a case in which the plaintiff pursues for a debt, and the defendant pleads compensation, to which the pursuer replies by pleading compensation also.
Wiktionary
- n. law Reparation for personal injuries.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete Recompense.
- n. (Scots Law) Used to denote a case where a set-off pleaded by the defendant is met by a set-off pleaded by the plaintiff.
Examples
“Based upon the total recompensation package received by all Workers, including those who were not Outsourced, Downsized, or Pension-shriven.”
Are Workers Getting Good Jobs?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“On its list is: a government of national unity, the overhaul of the constitution, a properly organised election, recompensation for victims of Operation Murambatsvina and the relaxation of cross border regulations against Zimbabweans.”
“And then possibly some recompensation because that should just be just plain illegal what they did to your lady parts.”
“Gracious, that has to be one of the most liberal recompensation proposals I've heard since the storm.”
“Sithen my flesh will be my master I shall punish it; and therewith he rove himself through the thigh that the blood stert about him, and said: O good Lord, take this in recompensation of that I have done against thee, my Lord.”
“I shall punish it; and therewith he rove himself through the thigh that the blood start about him, and said: O good Lord, take this in recompensation of that I have done against thee, my Lord.”
“The workmen who built the plant must be as fully compensated as those who operate it, but being compensated, they have no claim for recompensation for the same work.”
“One of the questions which almost immediately engaged the attention of the leaders of this Church after the Baltimore General Conference was the securing of $288,000 by Agents Barbee and Smith from the Federal Government as a belated recompensation for injury done the Church property of the Church during the Civil War.”
“Then Sir Percivale made great sorrow, and drew his sword unto him, saying: Sithen my flesh will be my master I shall punish it; and therewith he rove himself through the thigh that the blood start about him, and said: O good Lord, take this in recompensation of that I have done against thee, my Lord.”
“He forced himself to serve his spirit by diverse castigation or chastising, he used the hair many times next his flesh, and when he left it for cause of over feebleness of his body, at the instance of his own confessor, he ordained the said confessor to give to the poor folk, as for recompensation of every day that he failed of it, forty shillings.”
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