XvfiSfjAi. 745 RECEIPT. Tocalises for soprano or tenor. His Traite d'har- monie (1862) ranks among the best modern works on theory and has been reprinted several times. He died in Paris. REBMANN, rab'man, Johannes (1820-76); A Gernuui missionary and African explorer, born at Gerlingen, Wiirttemberg. He was sent by the British Church ^Missionary Society to Mom- bas. East Africa, as an assistant to Krapf, with whom in 1849 he discovered the mountains Kili- manjaro and Kenia. Rebmann spent thirty- eight years in Africa and acquired considerable knowledge of several of the native languages. He published a Dictionary of the Kiniassa Lan- guage (1877) and a map of East Africa (1856). REBOLLEDO, ra'Bo-lya'oo, Berxardixo de, Count (1597-1676). A Spanish poet, born at Leon. From bis youth he was a soldier and fought against the Turks and in Barbary and in the Thirty Years' War. He was made Ambas- sador to Denmark (1647) and afterwards to Sweden, and lived for several years in the north. In 1663 he was appointed Minister of State, a post he held until his death. His works include: Ocios (1650), a poem; tielva militar y politica ( 1652 ) , a didactic poem ; La constancia victoriosa (1655), and some epistles, epigrams, and excel- lent ballads. His style is prosaic, but it is sim- ple and usually imaffeeted. The three-volume edition of his works (Madrid, 1778) contains a biography. RECALESCENCE. See HtAT. RECAMIER, ra'ka'mya', .Julie, Madame (1777-1849). A famous French leader of so- ciety, born at Lyons. In 1793 .she married a wealthy but aged Parisian banker, Jacques Re- oamier, and his wealth enabled her to shine in society. Her salons became famous as the ren- dezvous of the foremost writers and thinkers of the time. For Madame de Stael she had a great and lasting regard, and in 1806. after M. Re- camier was ruined, she was the guest of Madame de Stael at Coppet, in Switzerland. In 1811 Xapoleon ordered her to leave Paris on account of her political views, and she then resided for several years in Switzerland. In 1815, however, she returned to Paris and established herself in the Abbaye-aux-Bois, where her beauty and charm made her the centre of a group of the brilliant men and women of the time. Chateaubriand. Bal- lanche, and others were her friends and admirers. The only suitors for her hand toward whom she evinced any partiality were Prince August of Prussia and later Chateaubriand. The history of their efforts to win her in marriage is well known, but though her husband died in 1830, she remained a widow until her death. Consult: Souvenirs et correspondence tires des papiers de Mme. Recamier (Paris, 1859) ; Mme. Lenormant, Madame Recamier (ib., 1872) ; Brunier, Vie de Madame Recamier (ib.. 1875) ; English trans- lations of first two of these (Boston, 1867 and 1869) : Chateaubriand, M^moires d'outre tombe, vols. 8-10 (Paris, 1848). RECANATI, ra'ka-na'te. A town in the Province of Macerata, Italy, situated on a hill between the Musone and the Potenza, 15 miles south of Ancona (Map: Italy, H 4). It has a fourteenth-century Gothic cathedral, a statue of the poet Leopardi. a library, and a new town hall. There are manufactures of silk, and wine and olive oil are made. Population (commune), in 1881, 19,524; in 1901, 1.5,586. RECAPITULATION THEORY (Lat. re- capitiilaliu, from recdpituline, to recapitulate, from re-, back again, anew -j- capitulitm, chapter, diminutive of caput, head), or Bioge.vetic Law. A statement of the fact that the development of the individual is an epitome of that of the order or class to which it belongs. The basis of the law or principle is the well-grounded view or assumption now universally held by biologists that all animals have had a common ancestry, proved by the fact that all the animals whose embryological development has been carefully studied pass through stages or temporarily in- herit structures or states of structures which are permanent in and characteristic of the more primitive or ancestral members of the class to which they belong. Compare Palingenesis. See Biogenesis. RECAPTURE. In international law, a term having reference to the retaking by an armed ves- sel of one belligerent or its ally of a prize cap- tured by a vessel of the other belligerent from a subject or citizen of the first. To adjust the con- flicting rights of original owner and recaptor, a legal fiction, the jus postliminii of the Romans, was devised. According to this rule the title to property recaptured from an enemy in war was revested in the original owner upon payment of salvage to the recaptors. The rights of persons recaptured from the enemy were restored upon the payment of a certain sum. The amount of sal- vage is determined by a prize court in accordance with the law of the State to which the recaptor belongs. The law of the United States recog- nizes the principle of reciprocity as regards the amount paid foreign vessels recapturing American vessels from the enemy. With regard to salvage allowed domestic recaptors, the law prescribes from one-twelfth to one-half the value of the prize, according to the difficulty involved in mak- ing the recapture and the character of the vessel. The law of France allows one-tenth ; that of Eng- land, one-eighth ; that of Spain, one-eighth to one- sixth ; Denmark, one-third; Sweden, one-half. According to the practice of the I'nited States salvage is not allowed if the recapture takes place after condemnation by a prize court, since the title is regarded as having passed from the origi- nal owner to the captor, and if sold by the court, the title of the purchaser is incontestible. The English practice is to restore the recaptured property to the original owner upon pa^^uent of salvage without regard to the time of recapture. RECEIPT (OF. recete, recepfc, Fr. recette, from ML. recepta, receipt, fem. sg. of Lat. recep- tus, p.p. of recipere, to receive, from re-, back again, anew + caperc. to take). The transaction by which one takes into his possession or custody property delivered to him by another. It is also the technical name for an acknowledgment of the receipt of property executed in writing by one who has taken the property into his possession or custody. A written receipt is evidence only of the fact that money or property was received bv the per- sons executing it. It does not differ in legal ef- fect from any other evidence of the fact of receipt, although it may be more conclusive than mere verbal testimony. A written receipt may accord- ingly be explained or contradicted by other
