a person whom the mayor and other magistrates of a city or corporation associate to them, for their better direction in matters of justice, and proceedings in law; on which account this person is generally a counsellor, or other person well skilled in the law.

The recorder of London is chosen by the lord mayor and aldermen; and, as he is held to be the mouth of the city, he delivers the judgment of the courts therein, and records and certifies the city-customs.

RECURSUS ON BILLS, in Scots law. See Law, Tit. xxii. 12.

RECRUITMENT in chemistry, some superfluous matter separated from some other that is useful; in which sense it is the same with scoriae, faeces, and excrements. See Chemistry.