By this term is understood the evidence which is applicable to the issue joined; it is relevant when it is applicable to the issue, and ought to be ad...
That which is applicable to the issue and which ought to be received; the phrase is used in opposition to irrelevant evidence, which is that which is ...
A widow; as A B, relict of C D. ...
When a judgment is confessed by cognovit actionem after plea pleaded, and then the plea is withdrawn, it is called a confession or cognovit actionem r...
An increase of the land by the sudden retreat of the sea or a river. 2. Relicted lands arising from the sea and in navigable rivers, (q. v.) generally...
Engl. law. A relief was an incident to every feudal tenure, by way of fine or composition with the lord for taking up the estate which was lapsed or f...
practice. That assistance which a court of chancery will lend to a party to annul a contract tinctured with fraud, or where there has been a mistake o...
Real piety in practice, consisting in the performance of all known duties to God and our fellow men. 2. There are many actions which cannot be regulat...
The constitution of the United States, art. 6, s. 3, de-clares that "no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office, or pub...
practice. A forsaking, abandoning, or giving over a right; for example, a plaintiff may relinquish a bad count in a declaration, and proceed on the go...
Scotch law, contracts. To let again to renew a lease, is called a relocation. 2. When a tenant holds over after the expiration of his lease, with the ...
estates. The remnant of an estate in lands or tenements expectant on a particular estate, created together with the same, at one time. Co. Litt. 143 a...
One who is entitled to the remainder of the estate after a particular estate carved out of it has expired. ...
practice. The sending it back to the same court out ofwhich it came for the purpose of having some action on it there. March, R. 100. ...
practice. The return made by the sheriff to a writ of execution when he has not been able to sell the property seized, that the same remains unsold fo...
practice. The causes which are entered for trial, and which cannot be tried during tho term, are remanets. Lee s Dict. Trial, vii.; 1 Sell. Pr. 434; 1...
That which affords a remedy; as, a remedial statute, or one which is made to supply some defects or abridge some superfluities of the common law. 1 13...
The means employed to enforce a right or redress an injury. 2. The importance of selecting a proper remedy is made strikingly evident by tho following...
; Eng. law. Officers of the exchequer, whose duty it is to remind the lord treasurer and the justices of that court of such things as are to be called...
A French word which literally means a surrendering or returning a debt or duty. 2. It is frequently used in this sense in releases; as, "remise, relea...
civil law. A release. 2. The remission of the debt is either conventional, when it is expressly granted to the debtor by a creditor having a capacity ...
comm. law. Money sent by one merchant to another, either in specie, bill of exchange, draft or otherwise. ...
comm. law. Money sent by one merchant to another, either in specie, bill of exchange, draft or otherwise. ...
contracts. A person to whom a remittance is made. Story on Bailm. §75. ...
estates. To be placed back in possession. 2. When one having a right to lands is out of possession, and afterwards the freehold is cast upon him by so...
An entry on the record by which the plaintiff declares that he remits the damages or a part of the damages which have been awarded him by the jury, is...
contracts. A person who makes a remittance to another. ...
practice. The act of the plaintiff upon the record, whereby he abates or remits the excess of damages found by the jury beyond the sum laid in the dec...
After a record has been removed to the supreme court, and a judgment has been rendered, it is to be remitted or sent back to the court below, for the ...
A petition to a court, or deliberative or legislative body, in which those who have signed it request that something which it is in contemplation to p...
At a distance; afar off, not immediate. A remote cause is not in general sufficient to charge a man with the commission of a crime, nor with being the...
The act of a competent officer or of the legislature which deprives an officer of his office. It may be express, that is, by a notification that the o...
practice. When a suit or cause is removed out of one court into another, which is effected by writ of error, certiorari, and the like. 11 Co.41. ...
Reward; recompense; salary. Dig. 17, 1, 7. ...
To yield; to return; to give again; it is the reverse of prender. ...
A place appointed for meeting. 2. Among seamen it is usual when vessels sail under convoy, to have a rend ezvous in case of dispersion by storm, an en...
A change of something old for for something new; as, the renewal of a note; the renewal of a lease. See Novation, and 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 800. ...
estates, contracts. A certain profit in money, provisions, chattels, or labor, issuing out of lands and tenements in retribution for the use. 2 Bl. Co...
A roll of the rents due to a particular person or public body. See Rental. ...
A roll or list of the rents of an estate containing the description of the lands let, the names of the tenants, and other particulars connected with s...
In the French funds this word is nearly synonymous with our word annuity. ...
This is a technical phrase used in Louisiana. It is a rent which issues out of land, and it is of its essence that it be perpetual, for if it be made ...
French law. This term, which is used in Louisiana, signifies an annuity for life. Civ. Code of Lo. art. 2764; Poth. Du Contract de Constitution de Ren...
The act of giving up a right. 2. It is a rule of law that any one may renounce a right which the law has established in his favor. To this maxim there...
That work which is done to an estate to keep it in good order. 2. What a party is bound to do, when the law imposes upon him the duty to make necessar...
The redress of an injury; amends for a tort inflicted. Vide Remedy; Redress. ...
The name of an ancient writ which lies by one or more joint tenants against the other joint tenants, or by a person owning a house or building against...
legislation. The abrogation or destruction of a law by a legislative act. 2. A repeal is express; as when it is literally declared by a subsequent law...
This word is nearly synonymous with inventory, and is so called because its contents are arranged in such order as to be easily found. Clef des Lois R...
construction of wills. A repetition takes place when the same testator, by the same testamentary instrument, gives to the same legatee legacies of equ...
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