A second examination of a thing. A witness maybe reexamined, in a trial at law, in the discretion of the court, and this is seldom refused. In equity,...
contracts, commerce. The expense incurred by a bill s being dishonored in a foreign country where it is made payable, and returned to that country in ...
A word composed of the three initial syllables re. fa. lo., for recordari facias loquelam. (q. v.) 2 Sell. Pr 160; 8 Dowl. R. 514. ...
civil law. Reparation, reestablishment of a building. Dig. 19, 1, 6, 1. ...
A person to whom has been referred a matter in dispute, in order that he may settle it. His judgment is called an award. Vide Arbitrator; Reference. ...
contracts. An agreement to submit to certain arbitrators, matters in dispute between two or more parties, for their decision, and judgment. The person...
mercantile law. A direction or request by a party who asks a credit to the person from whom he expects it, to call on some other person named in order...
practice. The act of sending any matter by a court of chancery or one exercising equitable powers, to a master or other officer, in order that he may ...
international law. When an amhassador receives propositions touching an object over which he has no sufficient power and he is without instruction, he...
To reorganize; to rearrange as, the jury "shall be reformed by putting to and taking out of the persons so impanneled." Stat. 3 H. VIII. c. 12; Bac. A...
criminal law. The act of bringing back a criminal to such a sense of justice, so that he may live in society without any detriment to it. 2. The objec...
The act of declining to receive or to do something. 2. A grantee may refuse a title, vide Assent; one appointed executor may refuse to act as such. la...
The authority of the person in monarchical countries invested with the right of governing the state in the name of the monarch, during his minority, a...
1. A ruler, a governor. The term is usually applied to one who governs a regency, or rules in the place of another. 2. In the canon law, it signifies ...
The name of an ancient law book ascribed to David I of Scotland. It is, according to Dr. Robertson, a servile copy of Glanville. Ro- bertson s Hist. o...
The killing of a king, aud, by extension, of a queen. Theorie des Lois Criminelles, vol. 1, p. 300. REGIDOR. Laws of the Spanish empire of the Indies....
Laws of the Spanish empire of the Indies. The body of regi- dores who never exceeded twelve, forming a part of the municipal council or ayuntamiento, ...
evidence. A book containing a record of facts as they occur, kept by public authority; a register of births, marriages and burials. 2. Although not or...
common law. The certificate of registry granted to the person or persons entitled thereto, by the collector of the district, comprehending the port to...
An officer authorized by law to keep a record called a register or registry; as the register for the probate of wills. ...
An officer in Pennsylvania, who has gene- rally the same powers that judges of probates and surrogates have in other states, and the ordinary has in E...
This is a book preserved in the English court of chancery, in which were entered, from time to time, all forms of writs once issued. 2. It was first p...
An ancient name given to a notary. In England this name is confined to designate the officer of some court, the records or archives of which are in hi...
The name of an ancient book which was a collection of writs. See Register of Writs ...
A book authorized by law, in which writings are registered or recorded. Vide To Record; Register. ...
One having authority as a king; one in the exercise of royal authority. ...
crim. law. Every practice or device, by act, conspiracy, words, or news, to enhance the price of victuals or other merchandise, is so denomin-ated. 3 ...
Returning; going back opposed to ingress. (q. v.) ...
One where the thing deposited must be returned. It is distinguished from an irregular deposit. ...
Regular process is that which has been lawfully issued by a court or magistrate, having competent jurisdiction. Irregular process is that which has be...
The act by which a man is restored to his former ability, of which he had been deprived by a conviction, sentence or judgment of a competent tribunal....
A second consideration which the court gives to a cause, on a second argument. 2. A rehearing takes place principally when the court has doubts on the...
When a party is imperfectly bound in an obligation, he may in general, annul such imperfect obligation; but when he has permitted the opposite party t...
mar. contr. An insurance made by a former insurer, his executors, administrators, or assigns, to protect himself and his estate from a risk to which t...
Bank notes, which after having been once paid, may again be put into circulation, are so called. 2. They cannot properly be called valuable securities...
pleadings. The name of the defendant s answer to the plaintiff s replication. 2. The general requisites of a rejoinder are, 1. It must be triable. 2. ...
The condition of one who, after having abandoned a course of vice, returns to it again. Vide Recidive. ...
civil law. The report which the judges made of the proceedings in certain suits to the prince were so called. 2. These relations took place when the j...
contracts, construction. When an act is done at one time, and it operates upon the thing as if done at another time, it is said to do so by relation; ...
kindred. In its most extensive signification, this term includes all the kindred of the person spoken of. In a more limited sense, it signifies those ...
A rehearser or teller; one who, by leave of court, brings an information in the nature of a quo warranto. 2. At common law, strictly speaking, no such...
One connected with another by blood or affinity; a relation, a kinsman or kinswoman. In an adjective sense, having relation or connexion with some oth...
Those which relate to land, so called to distinguish them from those which are collateral to it. 2. These powers are appendant, as where a tenant for ...
Those to which a person is entitled in consequence of his relation with others such as the rights of a hushand in relation to his wife; of a father, a...
Releases are of two kinds. 1. Such as give up, discharge, or abandon a right of action. 2. Such as convey a man s interest or right to another, who ha...
contracts. A release is the giving or discharging of a right of action which a man has or may claim against another, or that which is his. Touch. 320 ...
estates. The "conveyance of a man s interest or right, which he hath unto a thing, to another that hath the possession thereof, or some estate therein...
A person to whom a release is made. ...
He who makes a release. ...
civil law. Among the Romans relegation was a banishment to a certain place, and consequently was an interdiction of all places except the one designat...
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