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Resolutory Condition

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

One which has for its object, when accomplished, the revocation of the principal obligation; for example, I will sell you my crop of cotton if my ship America does not arrive in the United States within six months. My ship arrives in one month; my contract with you is revoked.

1 Bouv. Inst, note 764.

RESON (Law Fr.) Reason; truth; right; title; justice; act; argument; charge; expression; method; case; article; point.

Kelham.

RESORT (from Pr. resorter, q. v.) To go back. "It resorted to the line of the mother." Hale, Hist. Com. Law, c.

11.

The act of visiting; assembly; meeting; concourse; frequent assembling.

90 111. 220.

RESORTER (Law Fr.) In old English law. To go back. A force resortera le tenement au seigniour del fee, the tenement