Category: R

A regranting of land demised or leased

To buy back. To liberate an qstate or article from mortgage or pledge by paying the debt for which it stood as secu-rity. To repurchase ln a literal sense; as, to redeem one’s land from a tax-sale. See Max-well v. Foster, 67 S. C. 877, 45 8. E. 927; Mlller v. Ratterman, 47 Ohlo St […]

In old records. A rental, or rent-roll. Cowell

A surrendering or re-storing; also a Judlclal acknowledgment that the thing ln demand belongs to the demand-ant, and not to the person surrendering Cowell

In old records. A renter; a tenant Cowell

Lat. He has rendered himself

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Lat By referring each to each; referring each phrase or expression to Its appropriate object. A rule of construction.

An ancient record, wherein are registered the holders of lands per baroniatn in the time of Henry II., the number of hldes of land In certain counties before the Conquest, and the ceremonies on the coronation of Eleanor, wife of Henry III. Jacob; CowelL

In a derivative sense, or-der carried to fastidious excess; system run out into trivial extremes, webster v. Thompson, 55 Ga. 434

RAED, or REDE. Sax. Advice; counsel

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In the clvll law. A specles of exception or plea to the Jurisdiction, to the effect that the particular judge ls disqualified from hearing the cause by reason of Interest or prejudice. Poth. Proc. Civile, pt 1, c. 2, | 5

In English law. Persons who willfully absent themselves from thelr parish church, and on whom penalties were imposed by various statutes passed durlng the relgns of Ellzaheth and James I. wharton

Lat. In old English |aw. Recovery; restitution by the sentence ot a judge of a thing that has been wrong* fully taken or detained. Co. Litt 154a

Great or pre-dial tithes

A rector of a parish who has not the cure of souls. 2 Steph. Cqmm. 683

In English law. Be that has full possession of a parochial church. A rector (or parson) has, for the most part, the whole right to all the ecclesiastical dues in hls parish; while a vicar has an appropri-ator over hlm, entitled to the best part of the profits, to whom the vicar is, in effect, […]

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An abol-ished writ on disclaimer

A writ of right of dower, which lay for a widow who had re-ceived part of her dower, aud demanded the residue, against the heir of the husband or his guardian. Abolished. See 23 & 24 Vict. c. 126, | 26

A writ of right of dower whereof the widow had nothing, which lay where her deceased husband, having divers lands or tenements, had assured no dower to his wife, and she thereby was driven to sue for her thirds against the heir or his guardian. Abol-ished

A writ of right of ward of the land and helr. Abolished

A writ of right, which was of so high a nature that as other writs in real actions were only to recover the possession of the land, etc., in question, this aimed to recover the seisin and the property, and thereby both the rights of possession and property were tried together. CowelL

A writ which lay at common law, where a man had rlght of advowson of a church, and, the parson dying, a stranger had presented. Fitzh. Nat Brev. 30

Lat Right or justice; legal dues; tribute or payment Cowell

As used ln the United States Internal revenue laws, this term is not confined to a person who runs spirits through charcoal, but ls applied to any one who rectifies or purifies spirits In any manner what-ever, or wbo makes a mixture of spirits with anything else, and sells it under any name. Quantity of […]

Reotifloation of instrument. In English law. To rectify is to correct or define something which ls erroneous or doubtful. Thus, where the par-ties to an agreement have determined to em-body Its terms in the appropriate and con-elusive form, but the instrument meant to efTect this purpose (e. g., a conveyance, set-tlement, etc.) is, by mutual […]

A charge made by an accused person against the accuser; in particular a counter-charge of adultery or cruelty made by one charged with the same offense in a suit for divorce, against the per-son who has charged him or her. wharton

A newly-enlisted soldier

Coward or craven. The word pronounced by a combatant in the trial by battel, when he acknowledged himself beaten. 3 Bl. Comm. 340

In old conveyancing. The party who suffered a common recovery

The demandant in a common recovery, after judgment has been given in his favor

Fr. In French law. Recapture. Emerig. TraitG des Assur. c. 12, 8 23

In practice. Defalca-tion or discount from a demand. A keepiug back something which is due, because there is an equitable reuson to withhold it. Tomlins

or RECOUPE. To deduct, defalk, discount, set off, or keep back; to withhold part of a demand

one of the

Statutes enacted in the several states relative to the oflicial recording of deeds, mortgages, bills of sale, chattel mortgages, etc., aud the effect of such records as notice to creditors, purchasers, incumbrancers, aud others Interested

In old English practice. An entry made upon a record, in order te

In Amerlcan practlce. A writ to bring up judgments of justices of the peace. Holcombe v. Loudermilk, 48 N

A collection of Spanish colonial law, promulgated A. D. 1680. See Schm. Clvil Law, Introd. 94

That Imaginary pro-cess by which a prior constructive conversion is annulled, and the converted property restored in contemplation of law to its original state

In the civil law. An action by a defendant against a plaintiff in a former action; a cross-bill or litigation

Lat In the canon and dvil law. To make a cross-demand up-on the actor, or plaintiff. 4 Reeve, Eng. Law, 14, and note, (r

The name commonly given to the process of reorganizing

The renewal of amicable relations between two persons who had been at enmity or variance; usually implying forgiveness of injuries on one or both sides. It is sometimes used iu the law of divorce as a term synonymous or analogous to “condonation

In the civil law. A repewing of a former lease; relocation. Dig. 19, 2, 13, 11; Code Nap. arts. 1737-1740

A reward for services; remuneration for goods or other property

Precatory, advisory, or directory. Recommendatory words ln a will are such as do not express the testator’s command in a peremptory form, but advise, counsel, or suggest that a certain course be pursued or disposition made

In feudal law. A method of converting allodial land into feudal property. The owner of the allod surrendered it to the king or a lord, doing homage, and received it back as a benefice or feud, to hold to hlmself aud such of hls heirs as he had previously nominated to the superior