The Collaborative International Dictionary
Recordation
Recordation \Rec`or*da"tion\ (r?k`?r*d?"sh?n), n. [L.
recordatio: cf. F. recordation. See Record, v. t.]
Remembrance; recollection; also, a record. [Obs.]
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
recordation
late 14c., "faculty of remembering," Old French recordacion "record, memory" (14c.) or directly from Latin recordationem (nominative recordatio), noun of action from past participle stem of recordari (see record (v.)). Meaning "act or process of committing to writing" is c.1810.
Wiktionary
recordation
n. (context legal English) The act of giving legal status to a document by making it an official public record.