A Law Dictionary and Glossary

A female relator, or petitioner; the complainant in bastardy proceedings,

I. I. A release.

A relinquishment of some right or claim; a discharge oy a creditor of a right of action; an instrument by which such a discharge is effected; a discharge or conveyance of a right o

In old English law. Banishment for a time only.

relovium, I. I, Relefe, Ifr. In old English law. Relief; one of the incidents of the feudal tenure.

The quality of being relevant.— a term applied to evidence. Relevant! Having relation; relevant evidence is evidence applicable to the issue.

I. Being relinquished; a confession of the action by the defendant, after plea pleaded, v. Cognovit.

A leaving; a leaving dry; a receding of the sea, by whicL land is left dry.

The redress provided by law for the deprivation or infraction and granted a In old English and Scots law. A fine paid by the heir of a deceased tenant in chivalry for taking up the

In old English law. Persons who entered into a monastery or convent

An estate limited to take effect in possession at a future day on determination of a previous estate, called the particular estate, created at the same time. v. Contingent remainde

To send back; to recommit; to send an accused person back to prison after a partial hearing, to await proceedings; to send a cause taken on appeal or error to an appellate court ba

I. I. In old English laio. A remainder; a perpetuity, oi perpetual estate.

I. They remain for lack of purchasers; a return to a writ of ^e«/acias that the officer has been unable to sell the goods distrained.

I. In old English law. To remain; to stop or stay; to demur, in the old sense of the word.

I. I. In old English law. A remainder.

I. I. In English law. It remains; the postponement of a trial; the cause postponed.

I. fr. To send back; to remand.

Affording a remedy. Remedial statute: a statute providing a remedy for an injury; a statute giving a person a remedy for a wrong, where he had none, or a different one, before.

The judicial enforcement of a right or redress of a wrong; the mode or means by which such relief is obtained, v. Legal remedy. Remembrancers. In English law. Officers of the exche

I. fr. Remaining; to come after; remainder. Remise. To remit or give up; a formal word in deeds of release and quitclaim. Remisi, remisisse, 1. 1 Formal words in old deeds of relea

To send back; to send or transmit; to give up; to relinquish.

The sending back of a person to a title he had before, as where one who has the property in lands, but is out of possession, has the freehold cast upon him by some subsequent, and

rendre, I. fr. To give or yield; to pay or perform; to return.

To give up; to resign; to relinquish; to disclaim or disavow. /n English law. Renounce probate: to refuse to assume the duties of executor; to refuse to take out probata

I In old English law. To renew.

A certain yearly profit in money, provisions, chattels or labor, issuing out of lands and tenements, in retribution for the use. V. Black rents; Chief rents; Fee-farm rent; Rack re

I. fr. In old English law. Rent Rente de chamlbre: a rent from the coffer; an annuity.

I. fr. Fined.

/. In the absence of the defendant

I. I. In old English law. Writ for making repair; a writ to compel the repairing of a house, mill, bridge, etc.

To annul, literally to revoke or recall, a statute by a subsequent one.

The abrogation or annulling of a statute by a subsequent ona

I. fr. To repeal or revoke.

I An infamous person is repelled from an oath, is thrust back from taking an oath, or not allowed to be sworn as a witness.

I. fr. To change one's mind; to repent

In the civil laio. The recovery of money paid under a mistake of law.

I. I. In old English law. A repeated, second or counter distress; withernam.

I. In the Roman law. Bribery or extortion in a magistrate, or person in any public ofl Sce.

To plead again, to plead over again, — sometimes allowed, upon motion, where a satisfactory issue has not been reached.

I. fr. In old English law. To replead. Repledes si vons voulez: replead, if you will.

I. I. In old English law. An action or writ of replevin. Replegiare de averiis: replevin of cattle'; a writ brought by one whose cattle were distrained, or impounded, upon surety t

I. I. In old English law. To take back a pledge; to replevy; to take back on pledge, or surety; to replevy a man. v. De homine, eta

I. fr. In old English law. To replevy.

I. fr. In old English law. Bail; delivery of a person on sureties or pledges.

A personal action to recover possession of goods wrongfully taken, — originally the peculiar remedy in cases of wrongful distress, available upon security given for trial of the ri

I fr. In old plevy; to let go, on bail.

Jn old English

The plaintiff

To get back on a

/. In the civil defendant's plea.

I. In the civil actor or plaintiff to the corresponding with, and pleading.

The plaintiff's an action at law; the swer, in a suit in equity.

A formal statement cery, a clerk, or referee, a public account of a cluding a statement of the court; a published

reprendre, Represt, reprist: taken Representation. The place of another; the person take the share would have taken or Df facts as to the parties to the other, character of the ris

The withdrawing the execution is suspended.

reprisel. A tion; a taking of one way of retaliation.

represalia, civil atid old maritime

Deductions and given by the plaintiff in replevin conditioned property in case the right is determined against detinet: an action in which there was no as where it had been eloigne

action of. In Scots law. An action or proceeding intended to convict a witness of perjury.

In old English law. Money paid by servile tenants for exemption from the customary duty of reaping for the lord.

A second publication of a will, either expressly or by construction.

I In the Roman law. A breaking off of a contract of espousals, or a marriage intended to be solemnized.

Contrary to; in conflict with.

The estimation in which a person is held in the community where he has resided.

General opinion; what is commonly thought or believed.

Generally supposed or believed.

The formal demand by one government upon another of the surrender of a fugitive criminal..

In Scots law. Inferior fiefs; portions of a fief or feud grahted out to inferior tenants.

si unlcuique Jnrisdictio non servatar, I The order of tilings is confounded, if its proper jurisdiction is not preserved to each. Rerum suarum qnllibet est moderator et arbiter: ev

2. Thing; things; matter; affair; circumstance, — a term of most extensive import, including both objects of property and things not objects of property. Res accessoria: an accesso

I. In the civil law. A species of imperial constitution; in the form of an answer to some application or petition;, a rescript

A forcible taking back of persons or property out of the custody of the law; the forcibly and knowingly freeing of another from an arrest or imprisonment.

I. I In old English law. Rescue; forcible liberation or release.

I. I. In old English law. A rescuer; one who commits a rescous.

I. I. In old English law. To rescue. Rescnssit: he rescued. Rescussernnt: they rescued.

I. fr. Resceit; receipt; the receiving or harboring of a felon.

reseant, I. fr. Abiding; dwelling; residing.

In old English law. A taking back of seisin; a taking again into the hands of ~the king, lands of whereof a general livery or ousterlemain was formerly mis-sued, contrary to the fo

The act of withholding; the creation of a right or interheld from sale, as lands withheld for public parks, for use of the Indians, etc.

To withhold; to hold back.

resset. In Scots law. The receiving or harboring of a proscribed or outlawed person. Reset of theft: the receiving of stolen goods knowing them to be stolen; to harbor and conceal

resiancy. In old English law. Residence; a. man's abode or continuance in a place.

resient, resyaunt. In old English law. Continually dwelling or abiding in a place; resident; a resident.

reseantia, L I. In old English law. Resiance; residence.

The act or state of being seated or settled in a place; the act, state or habit of dwelling or abiding in a place; the place where one resides; the place which one has made his sea

1. 1. In old English law. Sitting.

One who has a seat or settlement in a" p Iace;'one who dwells, abides or lies in a place; an inhabitant.

I. 1. In old English law. [They] remain.

I fr. To continue; to abide.

J. In old English law. To sit down; to sit still; to rest; to remain.

Relating to the residue; giving, taking, or constituting the residue. Residuary clause: a clause in a will by which the testator disposes of such part of his estate as remains undi

or residunm. That which remains affer taking a part away;. the sui-plus of a testator's estate remaining after all the debts and particular legacies have been discharged.

/. In old English law. To draw back from a contract before it is made binding.

To oppose; to oppose with force; to prevent, to hinder. Resist an officer: personally to resist; to resist directly and actively and by means in some degree forcible, not merely to

In Scots conveyancing, having the quality or effect of re-

To go back.

respectuare, I. I. In old English law. To respite. Respectnabitar: shall be put off.

I. I. In old English and Scots law. Respite; delay; postponement; continuance of time.

respoyner, I. fr. To answer. Respoignable: answerable.