civil law. The act by which a person demands and seeks to recover what he has paid by mistake, or delivered on a condition which has not been performe...
Scotch law. The act of reading over a witness deposition, in order that he may adhere to it, or correct it at his choice. The same as Recolement, (q. ...
practice. When an immaterial issue has been formed, the court will order the parties to plead de novo, for the purpose of obtaining a better issue thi...
To redeem a thing detained or taken by another, by putting in legal sureties. See Replevin. ...
remedies. The name of an action for the recovery of goods and chattels. 2. It will be proper to consider, 1. For what property this action will lie. 2...
To re-deliver goods which have been distrained to the original possessor of them, on his giving pledges in all action of replevin. It signifies also t...
One who makes a replication. ...
pleading. The plaintiff s answer to the defendant s plea. 2. Replications will be considered, 1. With regard to their several kinds. 2. To their form....
legislation. A statement made by a committee to a legislative assembly, of facts of which they were charged to inquire. ...
practice. A certificate to the court made by a master in chancery, commissioner or other person appointed by the court, of the facts or matters to be ...
A person employed in making out and publishing the history of cases decided by the court. 2. The act of congress of August 26, 1842, sect., 2, enacts,...
Law books, containing a statement of the facts and law of each case which has been decided by the courts; they are generally the most certain proof of...
One who represents or is in the place of another. 2. In legi4lation, it signifies one who has been elected a moraber of that branch of the legislature...
A form of government where the powers of the sovereignty are delegated to a body of men, elected from time to time, who exercise them for the benefit ...
insurances. A representation is a collateral statement, either by writing not inserted in the policy, or by parol, of such facts or circumstances rela...
Scotch law. The name of a plea or statement presented to a lord ordinary of the court of sessions, when his judgment is brought under review. ...
; A fiction of the law, the effect of which is to put the representative in the place, degree, or right of the person represen-ted. 2. The heir repres...
crim. law practice. This term is derived from reprendre, to take back, and signifies the withdrawing of a sentence for an interval of time, and operat...
punishment. The censure which in some cases a public office pronounces against an offender. 2. This species of punishment is used by legislative bodie...
war. The forcibly taking a thing by one nation which belonged to another, in return or satisfaction for a injury committed by the latter on the former...
The deductions and payments out of lands, annuities, and the like, are called reprises, because they are taken back; when we speak of the clear yearly...
eccl. law. The propounding exceptions either against facts, persons or things; as, to allege that certain deeds or instruments have not been duly and ...
A commonwealth; that form of government in which the administration of affairs is open to all the citizens. In another sense, it signifies the state, ...
A government in the republican form; a government of the people; it is usually put in opposition to a monarchical or aristocratic government. 2. The f...
An act done by a testator from which it can be concluded that be intended that an instrument which had been revoked by him, should operate as his will...
In the civil law this term is used to signify the putting away of a wife or a woman betrothed. 2. Properly divorce is used to point out the separation...
contracts. That which in a contract, is inconsistent with something already contracted for; as, for example, where a man by deed grants twenty acres o...
pleading. Where the material facts stated in a declaration or other pleading, are inconsistent one with another for example, where in an action of tre...
That which is contrary to something else; a repugnant condition is one contrary to the contract itself; as, if I grant you a house and lot in fee, upo...
One which is contrary to the contract itself; as, if I grant you a house and lot in fee, upon condition that you shall not aliens, the condition is re...
evidence. The opinion generally entertained by persons who know another, as to his character, (q. v.) or it is the opinion generally entertained by pe...
contracts. A notice of a desire on the part of the person making it, that the other party shall do something in relation to a contract. 2. In general ...
pleading. The statement in the plaintiff s declaration that a demand or request has been made by the plaintiff from the defendant, to do some act whic...
Engl. law. Certain notes or requests from persons amenable to the excise laws, to obtain a permit for removing any excisable goods or articles from on...
The act of demanding a thing to be done by virtue of some right. 2. The constitution of the United States, art. 4, s. 2, provides that fugitives from ...
property. Things. The terms "Res," "Bona," "Biens," used by jurists who have written in the Latin and French languages, are intended to include movabl...
evidence. The subject matter; thing done. 2. When it is necessary in the course of a cause to inquire into the nature of a particular act, or the inte...
An entire thing; an entirely new or untouched matter. This term is applied to those points of law which have not been decided, which are "untouched by...
evidence. This is a technical phrase which signifies acts of others, or transactions between others. 2. Neither the declarations nor any other acts of...
practice. The decision of a legal or equitable issue, by a court of competent jurisdiction. 2. It is a general principle that such decision is binding...
Rom. civ. law. Those things which might be sold and alienated, or the property of them transferred from one person to another. The division of things ...
Something new; something not before decided. ...
A thing which has no owner. A thing which has been abandoned by its owner is as much res nullius as if it had never belonged to any one. 2. The first ...
The thing is lost to the owner. This phrase is used to express that when a thing is lost or destroyed, it is lost to the person who was the owner of i...
Those things which belong to cities or municipal corporations are so called; they belong so far to the public that they cannot be appropriated to priv...
A second sale made of an article; as, for example, if A sell a horse to B, and the latter not having paid, for him, refuse to take him away, when by h...
The act of receiving or admitting a third person to plead his right in a cause commenced by two; as when an action is brought against a tenant for lif...
The admission or receiving of a third person to plead his right in a cause formerly commenced between two other persons; as, when an action is brought...
The destruction or annulling of a contract. 2. The right to rescind a contract seems to suppose not that the contract has existed only in appearance; ...
crim. law, torts. This word is used synonymously with rescue, (q. v.) and denotes the illegal taking away and setting at liberty a distress taken, or ...
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