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statement and account clause

Statement and Account Clause. The clause of the U.S. Constitution requiring the regular publication of the receipts and expenditures of the federal government. U.S. Const. art. I, § 9, cl. 7. [Cases: United States 44. C.J.S. United States § 78.]

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recital

glossary / RECITAL

recital. 1. An account or description of some fact or thing (the recital of the events leading up to the accident). 2. A preliminary statement in a contract or deed explaining the reasons for entering into it or the background of the transaction, or showing the existence of particular facts (the recitals in the settlement

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