Restitutio In Integrum

Lat. In the civil law. Restoration or restitution to the previous condition. This was effected by the prætor on equitable grounds, at the prayer of an injured party, by rescinding or annulling a contract or transaction valld by the strict law or annulling a change in the legal condition produced by an omission, and restoring the parties to their previous situation or legal relations.

Dig. 4, 1; Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 220.

The restoration of a cause to its first state, on petition of the party who was cast, in order to have a second hearing. Hallifax, Civil Law, b.

3, c. 9, no. 49.