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In Black's Law Dictionary, the expression reconstruction has been defined at page - 1272 to mean - "Act of constructing again. It presupposes the nonexistence of the thing to be reconstructed, as an entity; that the thing before existing has lost its entity."

The expression re-construct has been defined or its meaning has been given as to construct again, to rebuild, either in fact or idea, or to remodel. To form again or anew as in the imagination or to restore again as an entity the thing which was lost or destroyed.

"Reconstruct" is not equivalent to 'repair'. Drawing a distinction between 'reconstruction' and 'repair' at page 31 of Words and Phrases Permanent Edition, Volume - 36A, it had been so observed -
"To repair presupposes the existence of the thing to be repaired; thus we say the thing needs repairing; the thing is out of repair, and so when we speak of repairs, we assume that the thing to be repaired is in existence and the word repair contemplates an existing structure or thing which has become imperfect by reason of the action of the elements , or otherwise ... ....in other words, we supply in the original existing structure that which is lost or destroyed, and thereby restore it to the condition in which it originally existed, as near as may be. "Reconstruction" presupposes the nonexistence of the thing to be reconstructed as an entity; that the thing before existing has lost its entity; and "reconstruction" is defined as follows: "To construct again; to rebuild; to restore again as an entity the thing which was lost or destroyed."