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RECITE
Definition and Citations:
To state in a written instrument facts connected with its inception, or reasons for its being made. Also to quote or set forth the words or the contents of some other instrument or document; as, to “recite” a statute. See Hart v. Baltimore & O. R. Co., 6 W. Va. 348.