A re-grant: the act of returning the title of a country to a go- vernment which formerly held it, by one which has it at the time; as the recession of...
French law. The state of an individual who commits a crime or misdemeanor, after having once been condemned for a crime or misdemeanor; a relapse. 2. ...
civil law. One in which the parties enter into mutual engagements. 2. They are divided into perfect and imperfect. When they are perfectly reciprocal,...
Mutuality; state, quality or character of that which is reciprocal. 2. The states of the Union are bound to many acts of reciprocity. The constitution...
contracts, pleading. The repetition of some former writing, or the statement of something which has been done. Touchst. 76. 2. Recitals are used to ex...
To demand again, to insist upon a right; as, when a defendant for a consideration received from the plaintiff, has covenanted to do an act, and fails ...
contracts. An acknowledgment that something which has been done by one man in the name of another, was done by authority of the latter. 2. A recogniti...
Eng. law. The name by which the jurors impanneled on an assize are known. Barnet v. Ihrie, 17 S. & R. 174. ...
contracts. An obligation of record entered into before a court or officer duly authorized for that purpose, with a condition to do some act required b...
He for whose use a recognizance has been taken. ...
contracts. He who enters into a recognizance. ...
French law. The reading and reexamination by a witness of a de-position, and his persistance in the saine, or his making such alteration, as his bette...
The giving to a person a favorable character of another. 2. When the party giving the character has acted in good faith, he is not responsible for the...
Scolch law. When a party sues for a debt, and the defendant pleads compensation, or set-off, the plaintiff may allege a compensation on his part, and ...
A reward for services; remuneration for goods or other property. 2. In maritime law there is a distinction between recompense and restitution. (q. v.)...
This phrase, is applied to the matter recovered in a common recovery, after the vouchee has disappeared, and judgment is given for the demandant. 2 Bo...
contracts. The act of bringing persons to agree together, who before, had had some difference. 2. A renewal of cohabitation between hushand and wife i...
civ. law. A renewing of a former lease; relocation. (q. v.) Dig. 19, 2, 13, 11; Code Nap. art. 1737-1740. ...
civ. law. An action brought by a party who is defendant against the plaintiff before the same judge. Reconventio est petitio qua reus vicissim, quid a...
evidence. A written memorial made by a public officer authorized by law to perform that function, and intended to serve as evidence of something writt...
Eng. law. A transcript from the issue roll; it contains a copy of the pleadings and issue. Steph. Pl. 105. ...
English practice. A writ commanding the sheriff, that he cause the plaint to be recorded which is in his county, without writ, between the parties the...
An order or allowance that the verdict returned on the nisi prius roll, be recorded. Bac. Ab. Arbitr. &c., D. ...
1. A judicial officer of some cities, possessing generally the powers and authority of a judge. 3 YeatesR. 300; 4 Dall. Rep. 299; but see 1 Rep. Const...
The demandant in a common recovery, after judgment has been given in his favor, assumes the name of recoverer. ...
A recovery, in its most extensive sense, is the restoration of a former right, by the solemn judgment of a Court of justice. 3 Murph. 169. 2. A recove...
A Coward; a poltroon. 3 Bl. Com. 340. ...
crim. law. An accusation made by a person accused against his accuser, either of having committed the same offence, or another. 2. In general recrimin...
A newly made soldier. ...
Right. (q.v.) Brevederecto, writ of right. (q. v.) ...
Eccl. law. One who rules or governs a name given to certain officers of the Roman church. Dict. Canonique, h. v. ...
Engl. law. Corporeal real property, consisting of a church, glebe lands and tithes. 1 Chit. Pr. 163. ...
Right in court. One who stands at the bar, and no one objects any offence, or prefers any charge against him. 2. When a person outlawed has reversed h...
Roman civil law. A species of judges originally established, it is supposed, to decide controversies between Roman citizens and strangers, concerning ...
Engl. law. Persons who refuse to make the declarations against popery, and such as promote, encourage, or profess the popish religion. 2. These are by...
civ. law. A plea or exception by which the defendant requires that the judge having jurisdiction of the cause, should abstain from deciding upon the g...
construction. By rendering each his own; for example, when two descriptions of property are given together in one mass, both the next of kin and the h...
contracts. A word used substantively, and is that clause in a deed by which the grantor reserves something new to himself out of that which he granted...
contracts. The act of taking back by the seller from the buyer a thing which had been sold subject to th right of repurchase. 2. The right of redempti...
Heavy fines, contradistinguished from misericordia. (q. v.) ...
civil law, and in Louisiana. The avoidance of a sale on account of some vice or defect in the thing sold, which renders it absolutely useless, or its ...
Eng. practice. He surrendered himself. This is endorsed on the bail piece when a certificate has been made by the proper officer that the defendant is...
A rent payable in money; sometimes called white rent or, blanche farm. Vide Alba firma. ...
A rent payable in grain, work, and the like; It was also called black mail. This name was given to it to distinguish it from reditus albi, which was p...
comm. law. A bill of exchange drawn at the place where another bill was made payable, and where it was protested, upon the place where the first bill ...
The act of receiving satisfaction for an injury sustained. For the mode of obtaining redress, vide Remedies 1 Chit. Pr. Annal. Table. ...
crim law. Those who bought stolen cloth, and dyed it of another color to prevent its being identified, were anciently so called. 3 Inst. 134. ...
Matter introduced in an answer, or pleading, which is foreign to the bill or articles. 2. In the case of Dysart v. Dysart, 3 Curt. Ecc. R. 543, in giv...
estates. The resuming or retaking possession of land which the-party lately had. 2. Ground rent deeds and leases frequently contain a clause authorizi...
The name of an ancient English officer of justice, inferior in rank to an alderman. 2. He was a ministerial officer, appointed to execute process, kee...
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