The name of a writ issued to compel a party to return property which has been adjudged to the other in an action of replevin. Vide Writ pro retorno ha...
war. The name of the act employed by a government to impose the same hard treatment on the citizens or subjects of a state, that the latter has used t...
practice. The act by which a plaintiff withdraws his. suit; it is so called from the fact that this was the principal word used when the law entries w...
1. That which is given to another to recompense him for what has been received from him; as a rent for the hire of a house. 2. A salary paid to a pers...
civil law. When the assignee of heritable rights conveys his rights back to the cedent, it is called a retrocession. Erskine, Prin. B. 3, t. 5, n. 1; ...
Looking backwards. 2. This word is usually applied to those acts of the legislature, which are made to operate upon some subject, contract or crime wh...
contracts, remedies. Persons who are beyond the sea are exempted from the operation of the statute of limitations of Pennsylvania, and of other states...
A day appointed by law when all writs are to be returned which have issued since the preceding return day. The sheriff is in general not required to r...
practice. A short account in writing, made by the sheriff, or other ministerial officer, of the manner in which he has executed a writ. Steph. on Pl. ...
civil law. This word has two different meanings. 1. A party to a suit, whether plaintiff or defendant; Reus est qui cum altero litem contestatem habet...
civil and French law. An action by which a man demands a thing of which he claims to be owner. It applies to immovables as well as movables; to corpor...
The income of the government arising from taxation, duties, and the like; and, according to some correct lawyers, under the idea of revenue is also in...
international law. First. A declaration by which a sovereign promises that he will observe a certain order, or certain conditions, which have been onc...
estates. The residue of an estate left in the grantor, to commence in possession after the determination of some particular estate granted out by him;...
estates. One entitled to a reversion. 2. Although not in actual possession, the reversioner having a vested interest in the reversion, is entitled to ...
law of Scotland. A debtor who makes a wadset and to whom the right of reversion is granted. Ersk. Pr. L. Scotl. B. 2, t. 8, sect. 1. A reversioner. Ja...
Reversion. A formedon in reverter is a writ which was a proper remedy when the donee in tail or issue died without issue and a stranger abated: or the...
practice. A second examination of a matter. For example, by the laws of Pennsylvania, the courts having jurisdiction of the subject may grant an order...
contracts. An agreement to renew the legal obligation of a just debt, after it has been barred by the act of limitation or lapse of time, is called it...
practice. The act by which a judgment, which has lain dormant or without any action upon it for a year and a day is, at common law, again restored to ...
practice. When a judgment is more than a day and a year old, no execution can issue upon it at common law; but till it has been paid, or the presumpti...
the name of a bill in chancery used to renew an original bill which for some reason has become inoperative. Vide Bill of Revivor. ...
The act by which a person having authority, calls back or annuls a power, gift, or benefit, which had been bestowed upon another. For example, a testa...
Recalled. This word is used when a judgment is annulled for an error in fact, the judgment is then said to be recalled, revocatur; and not reversed, w...
crim. law. The act of congress of April 30, 1790, s. 8, 1 Story s L. U. S. 84, punishes with death any seaman who shall lay violent hands upon his com...
An offer of recompense given by authority of law for the performance of some act for the public good; which, when the act has been performed, is to be...
The name of one of the original states of the United States of America. This state was settled by emigrants from Massachusetts, who assumed the govern...
A code of marine laws established by the people of Rhodes, bears this name. Vide Law Rhodian. ...
comm. law. Denominations of money of Spain. 2. In the ad valorem duty upon goods, &c., the former are computed at ten cents, and the latter at five ce...
A rogue; a vagrant. It is not used. ...
practice, legislation. A schedule or small piece of paper or parchment added to some part of the record; as, when, on the reading of a bill in the leg...
Eng. law. An ascertained district, part of a county. This term has the same meaning in Yorkshire which division has in Lincolnshire. 4 T. R. 459. ...
This is a French word which signifies nothing. It has generally this meaning; as, rien in arrere; rien passe per le fait, nothing passes by the deed; ...
pleading. Nothing in arrear; nothing remaining due and unpaid. 2. The plea in an action of debt for rent, may be rien en arrere. This is a good genera...
The name of a plea; it signifies that nothing pass-ed by the deed; for example, when a deed is acknowledged in court, a man cannot plead non est factu...
This word is used in various senses: 1. Sometimes it signifies a law, as when we say that natural right requires us to keep our promises, or that it c...
Scottish law. The right which the cautioner (surety) has to insist that the creditor shall do his best to compel the performance of the contract by th...
Scottish law. The right which each of several cautioners (sureties) has to refuse to answer for more than his own share of the debt. To entitle the ca...
By this term, in Louisiana, is understood the right of dwelling gratuitously in a house, the property of another. Civ. Code, art. 623; 3 Toull. ch. 2,...
Scottish law. The right which the cautioner (surety) has against the principal debtor when he has been forced to pay his debt. 1 Bell s Com. 347, 5th ...
The name of an ancient writ, which Fitzherbert says, "ought to be brought of lands and tenements, and not of an advowson, or of common, and lieth only...
Breve de recto. Vide Writ of light. ...
crim. law. This phrase is applied in England to a trick frequently practised in committing larcenies. It is difficult to define it; it will be suffici...
crim. law. A trick practised by a criminal, by which, on receiving a good piece of money in payment of an article, he pretends it is not good, and, ch...
crim. law. At common law a riot is a tumultuous disturbance of the peace, by three persons or more assembling together of their own authority, with an...
pleadings. A technical word properly used in an indictment for a riot, and ex vi termini, implies violence. 2 Sess. Cas. 13; 2 Str. 834; 2 Chit. Cr. L...
The bank of a river, or the place beyond which the waters do not in their natural course overflow. 2. An extraordinary overflow does not change the ba...
estates. This term, used by the civilians, has been adopted by the common lawyers. 4 Mason s Rep. 397. Those who own the land bounding upon a water co...
A code of laws of the Franks, who occupied the country upon the Rhine, the Meuse and Scheldt, who were collectively known by the name Ripuarians, and ...
A danger, a peril to which a thing is exposed. The subject will be divided by considering, 1. Risks with regard to insurances. 2. Risks in the contrac...
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