A Law Dictionary and Glossary

Z., Eedliibition. In the civil law. A returning; a returning of a thing bought to the seller; the undoing or annulling of a sale.

In the eivil law. An sfction by the buyer of a thing against the seller, to annul the sale. Bedhibitory defect: a defect in a thing sold, for which the seller may be compelled to t

I In old English law. To ransom; to punish by a fine; to compel to pay a fine or ransom.

In old English law. A second disseisin of the same tenements, and by the same disseisor; the writ which lay in such case. Beditns, /. A rent; rents. Beditus albi: white rents, or b

In Scots law. To rescind or annul; to declare void judicially.

I. In the civil law. Refusal or rejection of a judex or judge; disapprobation of or objection to a person proposed or assigned as a judge. Becusatio testis: rejection of a witness,

The resuming or retaking of a possession that one has lately foregone, particularly of land.

1. 1. In old English law. To recognize.

1. 1 Tn old English law. qnelam: cause you the plaint to suit or plaint in replevin might be one of the courts at Westminster.

L L In old English law. on a record, in order to prevent any

The amount which the holder of a bill of exchange protested for non-payment is entitled to receive, with his expenses and interest, from the drawer or indorser, to indemnify him fo

In English law. A second extent on lands or tenemeu ts, on complaint made that the former extent was partially performed.

A bond for the refunding of money paid, if it appears to have been not payable — paid prematurely or exacted without right

I. In the civil and old English law. Repair; reparation; as of a way, etc. Beferantur ad jnsticia Fios n' ros de banco, et ibi terminentur,;. In old English law. They shall be refe

The act of a court in referring a cause.

I. Referring separate words to separate subjects; making a distributive reference of words in an instrument; construing distributively. v. Reddendo, etc.

I In old English law. To refer.

I. I. In old English law. An acquittance or acknowledgment of renouncing all future claim.

retonle, I. fr., Eefullnm, 1 1. In old English law. A flowing out, or back. Befoil de la mere: ebbing of the sea.

Preceding in time or space; in presence

To form again, to correct or amend, to treat as corrected or amended; in equity, to treat an instrument in which there is an error of fact as though the error did not exist, and so

Any place in which persons voluntarily assemble or are forcibly detained for purposes of instruction and discipline.

I. I. In old English law. Regularly; strictly; according to rule. Begulariter non valet pactum de re mea non alienanda: regularly an agreement not to alien my property is not valid

I. In English law. Royal rights or prerogatives. Begalla majora: rights or prerogatives that are a part of the king's sov-

I.,A rule; a rule of court. Begula generalis: a general rule; a standing rule or order of a court In the civil law. A rule. Regula est quae rem qua) est, breviter enarrat: that is

I A going back; a going back to a person for indemnity; recoursa

1. 1. In old English law. Cause you to rehave seisin; a writ which lay where a s Heriflf had delivered seisin under a habere facias seisinam of more land than he ought, commanding

Manner of holding or keeping one's riage or demeanor. Behavior as heir: v. Oestio

In equity practice, a second hearing of a cause which may be granted upon petition of a party who is dissatisfied with the decree.

Profit; advantage.

To answer a replication in an action by some matter of fact

I. Jr. and eng. An answer to a replication in an action of some matter of fact; the defendant's second pleading.

In English law. Rejoining voluntarily, or without being required by rule.

The carrying back of an act or proceeding to some previous time, and giving it operation or validity from such time; a fiction of law indulged for the promotion of justice by which

Having relation; conditional, opposed to absolute. Relative fact: a fact having relation to another fact; a minor fact; a circumstance. Relative riglits: the rights of persons whic

I. In old English law. Relation; reference; a carrying back. Belatio est Actio juris, et inteuta ad unnm: relation is a fiction of law, and intended for or directed to one thing. B

To restore to a former capacity or ability; to reinstate a criminal in the personal rights which he has lost by a judicial sentence.

I. In the civil law. To repair; to restore; to reduce to the original form or stata

I. Crimes; offenses. Delicta puninutnr missi delicti, et non loci nbi de crimlne punished according to the customs of the place mitted, and not of the place where they are

A persuasion of the truth of a statement, the way of inference from some other fact, or distinct from personal knowledge.

I. In the civil law. The unpaid balance of an account Beli<iuare, I I. In old English exchequer practice, to owe a balance of account

bilagines, I. I Municipal laws of the By-laws.

I. I. To war; to make war. v. An bellare,

Actually at war; a nation engaged guished from a neutral.

I. War; an armed contest between nations combat or battel. Bello parta cedniit relpublicae: in war go to the state.

I. In the civil law. A re-letting. Belocatio tacita: a tacit or implied re-letting, as in case of holding over after expiration of the term.

As applied to inhabitancy may relating to paupers, legal settlement, not mere

Inferior;' of inferior jurisdiction: as, the cause is removed by appeal or writ of error. or instrumental: as, bail to the sheriff which is as being preliminary to, and intended to

I. In old English law. To send back, relinquish; to remise or release; to remand on habeas corpus.

2. He releases damages; an entry on the record remitting an excess of damages awarded by the verdict.

L Is sent back or remitted; a sending back of a record, as from a superior to an inferior court for entry of judgment, a new trial or further proceedings; a relinquishment of damag

The distant cause; the indirect cause; the intermediate cause.

emergit actio, I The impediment being removed, the action arises.

I. Removed; remote, v. Id quod, etc.

To change in place or position; to change residence or domicil; lawfully to deprive of ofl Sce; to transfer a cause from a state to a federal court

2. /r. Reasonable. Benables estovers: reasonable estovers.

A seat of judgment, or tribunal for the tice; the seat occupied by judges in courts; the as occupying the judgment seat; the ancient the English Court of Common Pleas, or Common vr

The senior or governing members of Court. V. Inns of court.

To give up; to surrender; to make up and exhibit, as an account; to determine upon and announce, as a verdict or judgment

I. In old English law. Well; safely; sufficiently Bene et in pace: well and in peace. Benedicta est exposltlo quando res redimitur a is a blessed interpretation when a thing is sav

In English ecclesiastical law. An church preferment, called in Magna Charta, ticum. Technically the word includes ecclesiastical which rank or public oEBce is attached, otherwise s

Of benefit or advantage; or advantage; having or enjoying plied to both estates and persons owner.

A persoa entitled to the tate; a cestui que trust, v. Cestui Beneflcium,/. in old English law. clericale: the clerical privilege; In Scots law. A benefit, favor or tise: the privil

The clerical privilege A privilege o£ exemption from tal felony, aL liently allowed to was once.e; Jivalent, able to read, only, thougjfV afterwards extended extended b^ statute, i

I. I. In civil and feudal fice, fief or fee; to enfeoff.

I. I. In old English beneplacito.

beneretli. In old English rendered to his lord, with his plough

In old European law. freemen to their sovereign, as a sory contributions otherwise the

I. Liberally; favorably; producing or attended with profit a benefit or profit A term ap-; as beneficial interest, beneficial law. To grant or confer a benelaw. A beneficiary; one

I In dvil and gent; liberal; benign; nignior: more favorabla alibns sen dnbiis est general or doubtful words terpretandse sunt quo be more liberally interpreted served.

In English law. A roll on which the rents of a manor are registered or set down, and by which the bailiff collects the sama

replevisable. That may be replevied, or taken back on pledge.

I. Money refused [the refusal of money tendered] releases him who pays [or tenders it].

To give personal

A gift of personal acy; Devise.

berceria, berqueria, sheep-cote or pen; a

To turn back; to act in an opposite direction; to undo, annul, set aside or vacate on the ground of error, as to reverse a judgment

To vest again, as a seisin acquired a second time by the person out of whom it has been devested.

berewicha, English law. A manor, from the main body; a a hamlet, or small village, corn-farm.

barmaster, mine; a bailiff, or chief in addition to his other

bergmoth. In

buria, I. I. In old manor; a plain adjoining

A viewing again; revisement; reconsideration; re-examination for the purpose of correction. Eeview, bill of: in equity, a bill, in the nature of a writ of error, filed to procure a

sax. In Saxon law.

Z. Z. In old English tare; to grub up barren

birdinsek, which exempted from stole only so much food sack.

In England, that and other inferior offices In Devonshire, a great are to be made liberally, by reason of the that the instrument may have effect rather ought to be made subject to

/. I In old English lage appurtenant to a

pi. besses, I. In the consisting of eight uncioe, two-thirds of the as; ^ interest

besaiel, besayle, Z. where a great-grandfather simple, and on the day and kept out the heir.

/. fr. and eng. A forcible taking back of goods distrained, or in the custody of the law; the forcible delivery of a defendant, or other party arrested, from the officer who is car

I In the civil law. Rescripts.

I. I. In old English and Scots law. Residence; a severe or long-continued illness, confining a person to his house.

L I In old English law. A re-summons; a second summons, of one who did not appear on the first

A second summons; the summons of a person a second time to answer an action, where the firat summons is defeated, as by the death of a party, or the like.

V. Wager.

2. 2. In old English laiv. holding.

The calling back by the grantor or actor of a thing granted • or act done, thereby annulling it or putting an end to its legal effect

In Scots law. An taken under a brieve of succession, by a person as heir is established.

returnare, I. I. In old English return in execution of a writ; to return, •returnable. Retornari facias: you cause nasti: you returned. Retornaverit: shall