n. | 1. | The act of recognizing, or the state of being recognized; acknowledgment; formal avowal; knowledge confessed or avowed; notice. |
RECOGNITION, contracts. An acknowledgment that something which has been done
by one man in the name of another, was done by authority of the latter.
2. A recognition by the principal of the agency of another in the
particular instance, or in similar instances, is evidence of the authority
of the agent, so that the recognition may be either express or implied. As
an instance of an implied recognition may be mentioned the case of one who
subscribes policies in the name of another and, upon a loss happening, the
latter pays the amount. 1 Camp. R. 43, n. a; 1 Esp. Cas. 61; 4 Camp. R. 88.