Recital (law)

In Law, a recital (from the Latin word recitare, meaning: to read out)[1] consists of an account or repetition of the details of some act, proceeding or fact. Particularly, in law, that part of a legal document—such as a lease, which contains a statement of certain facts—which contains the purport for which the deed is made.[2]

In EU law, a recital is a text that sets out reasons for the provisions of an act, while avoiding normative language and political argumentation.[3]

By convention, recitals start with the word Whereas.


References

  1. ↑ "Recite". The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (Fourth ed.). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. 2008.
  2. ↑ "Recital". A law dictionary : adapted to the Constitution and laws of the United States of America, and of the several states of the American union, with references to the civil and other systems of foreign law. Vol. II (Fifteenth ed.). Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott. 1883. pp. 517–518.
  3. ↑ "Recitals". The European Union. Retrieved 2011-05-09.