Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Recall \Re*call"\, n. (Political Science)
   (a) The right or procedure by which a public official,
       commonly a legislative or executive official, may be
       removed from office, before the end of his term of
       office, by a vote of the people to be taken on the filing
       of a petition signed by a required number or percentage
       of qualified voters.
   (b) Short for

   {recall of judicial decisions}, the right or procedure by
      which the decision of a court may be directly reversed or
      annulled by popular vote, as was advocated, in 1912, in
      the platform of the Progressive party for certain cases
      involving the police power of the state.