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Responde Book

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

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In Scotch law

A book of record of the chancellary, in which are entered all nonentry and relief duties payable by heirs who take precepts from chancery. Stair, Inst. p.

296, § 28; Ersk. Inst. 11. 6. 50.

RESPONDEAT OUSTER (that he answer over).

In practice

A form of judgment anciently used when an issue in law upon a