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A second examination of a thing. A witness may be re-examined, in a trial at law, in the discretion of the court; and this is seldom refused. In equity, it is a general rule that t

The expense incurred by a bill's being dishonored in a foreign country, where it is made payable and returned to that country in which it was made or indorsed, and there taken up.

A second extent on lands or tenements, on complaint that the former was partially made, etc. Cowell. REFAL0. A word composed of the three syllables re. fa. lo., for recordari facia

A word composed of the three initial syllables, re. fa. lo., for recordari facias loquelam. 2 Sellon, Prac. 160; 8 Dowl. 514. REFECTION (Lat. re, again, facio, to make). In civil l

Recordari facias loquelam, which see.

To bereave, take away, or rob. Cowell. REFECTION (Lat. re, again, facie, to make). In Civil Law. Reparation; re-establishment of a building. Dig. 19. 1. 6. 1.

Restoration; restitution.

To submit a cause to a reference. See Reference . See, also, 22 Me. 34.

The person to whom a reference (q. V.) is made.

A judicial officer with jurisdiction to hear and determine bankruptcy causes.

A person whose name may be inserted in a bill of exchange by the drawer or an indorser, to whom the holder may resort in case the bill is dishonored by nonacceptance or nonpayment.

COURT OF. In the passage of private bills through the house of commons, the practice was adopted in 1864 of the appointment of referees on such bills, consisting of the chairman of

OFFICIAL. Officials in the King’s Bench Division of the High Court of Justice in England, created by the judicature acts. They are three in number. They try such questions and acti

the capability or character of alluding to or bearing on or directing attention to something," and is the equivalent of "relation" and "respect." Id., at 1907.

The term “reference average wholesale price” means, with respect to a specified covered outpatient drug, the average wholesale price for the drug as determined under section 1395u(

The term “reference biological product” means the biological product licensed under such section 262 of this title that is referred to in the application described in subparagraph

See "Referee in Case of Need."

The term “reference listed drug” means the listed drug (as such term is used in section 355(j) of this title ) for the drug involved.

For purposes of this part, the term “reference month” means, with respect to a year, the most recent month during the previous year for which the Secretary determines that data are

The term “reference price” means with respect to a calendar year the Secretary's estimate of the annual average wellhead price per barrel for all domestic crude oil the price of wh

The term “reference product” means the single biological product licensed under subsection (a) against which a biological product is evaluated in an application submitted under sub

The term “reference resident level” means, with respect to a hospital, the highest resident level for any of the 3 most recent cost reporting periods (ending before March 23, 2010)

USED A. GelL Noet. Alt, Auli Gellii Nootes Attioe. A. K. Mmr9h. A. K. Mai'shall's Kentucky Reports. Abb, on Ship. Abbott on Shipping. Adamt Rom. Ant. Adam's Roman Antiquities. Ad.

The term “Reference Standard 90.1” means, with respect to any property, the more recent of— (A) Standard 90.1-2007 published by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and

Except as provided in paragraph (3)(A), the term "reference taxable year" means, with respect to any taxpayer for any calendar year, the taxpayer's taxable year beginning

The use of masters is 'to aid judges in the performance of specific judicial duties, as they may arise in the progress of a cause,' ... and not to displace the court.

In the case of subcontracts, as in other cases of express agreements in writing, a reference by the contracting parties to an extraneous writing for a particular purpose makes it a

Under the English practice, when an action is commenced, an entry of it is made in the cause book according to the year, the initial letter of the surname of the first plaintiff, a

The term “reference written determination” means any written determination which has been determined by the Secretary to have significant reference value.

A Roman officer who laid the causes of petitioners before the emperor.

In Saxon law. A master of requests; an officer to whom petitions to the king were referred. Spelman. REFERENDO SINGULA SINGULIS (Lat.) Referring individual or separate words to sep

The words or expressions should be construed distributively.

An ambassador’s submission to his government of a proposition in reference to which he requires further authority in order to act; the submission to popular vote of a proposed meas

Congress has merely placed a restriction upon its own regulation by withholding its operation as to a given market 'unless two-thirds of the growers voting favor it'. ... Here it i

In this section, the term “referral” means the order of a convening authority or, with respect to charges and specifications over which a special trial counsel exercises authority

In public trials in Courts of law, the judges sit to superintend the evidence, and no interested witnesses are, in general, permitted to give evidence to the jury; but referrees oc

The term “refined coal” means a fuel— (i) which— (I) is a liquid, gaseous, or solid fuel produced from coal (including lignite) or high carbon fly ash, including such fuel used as

In the case of a facility that produces refined coal, the term “refined coal production facility” means— (A) with respect to a facility producing steel industry fuel, any facility

The term “refined petroleum product” means any gasoline, diesel fuel, fuel oil, lubricating oil, liquid petroleum gas, or other petroleum distillate that is produced through the re

Verbiage in an indictment which sets forth what is not essential to the constitution of the offense. See 24 N. C. 372.

The term “refiner” means any person engaged in the refining of crude oil to produce motor fuel, and includes any affiliate of such person. / The term “refiner” means any person eng

The term “refinery” means a facility used in the production of a refined petroleum product through distillation, cracking, or any other process.

The term “refit” means a plant closure, for purposes of plant conversion or retooling, that lasts at least 3 months.

The term "reflagging or repair work" means work performed on a vessel— (i) to enable the vessel to meet applicable standards to become a vessel of the United States; or (

See Deliberation; Premeditate.

The term “reforestation” means the act of renewing tree cover, taking into consideration species composition and resilience, by establishing young trees through— (I) natural regene

The term “reforestation expenditures” means direct costs incurred in connection with forestation or reforestation by planting or artificial or natural seeding, including costs— (i)

to correct; to make anew; to rectify.

In general.—The term "reformable interest" means any interest for which a deduction would be allowable under subsection (a) at the time of the decedent's death but for pa

An act passed by parliament in 1832, drawn by Lord John Russell, which disfranchised 56 boroughs, increased the county representation and increased the electorate. vate the intelle

A name bestowed on the statutes 2 Wm. IV. c. 45, and 30 & 31 Viet c. 102, passed to amend the representation of the pcople in England and Wales; which introduced extended amendment

The equitable remedy of correcting a written instrument which fails to express the real agreement of the parties. See 76 Wis. 66, 44 N. W. 839.

Where an instrument is drawn and executed, which professes, or is intended, to carry into execution, an agreement, whether in writing or by parol, previously entered into, but whic

Reformation is not an incident to an action at law, but can be granted only in equity. When relief is granted also on the contract as reformed, it means only that the court of equi

All places and Institutions in which efforts are made either to cultivate the intellect, instruct the conscience, or improve the conduct; places in which persons voluntarily assemb

In English law. Schools to which convicted juvenile offenders (under sixteen) may be sent by order of the court before which they are tried, lf the offense be punishable with penal

See Reformatory .

The term “reformulated gasoline” means any gasoline which is certified by the Administrator under this section as complying with this subsection.

To "refresh the memory" means to consult letters, diaries, or other memoranda in order to be enabled to recall the details of a past eventi After that, the witness is regarded as s

In English practice. A fee paid to counsel on the trial of an action, in addition to the retainer paid him with his brief. In the practice of the queen's bench division, a refreshe

To revive the knowledge of a subject by having a reference to something connected with it. As to witnesses, see Memorandum.

To revive the recollection of a subject by referring to something connected with it. Commonly applied to the right of a witness to refer, even on the stand, to memoranda made by hi

The term “refrigerant” means any class I or class II substance used in a motor vehicle air conditioner. Effective 5 years after November 15, 1990, the term “refrigerant” shall also

The term “refrigerated bottled or canned beverage vending machine” means a commercial refrigerator that cools bottled or canned beverages and dispenses the bottled or canned bevera

The term “refrigerator” means a residential model automatic defrost refrigerator-freezer which has an internal volume of at least 16.5 cubic feet.

The term “refuge” means a designated area of land, water, or an interest in land or water within the System, but does not include Coordination Areas.

any person who is outside any country of such person's nationality or, in the case of a person having no nationality, is outside any country in which such person last habitually re

The term “refund” means refunding the actual purchase price (less reasonable depreciation based on actual use where permitted by rules of the Commission). / “refund” means the retu

Except as provided in subparagraph (B), in this subsection, the term “refundable single-dose container or single-use package drug” means a single source drug or biological (as defi

A bond given to an executor by'a legatee, upon receiving payment of the legacy, conditioned to refund the same, or so much of it as may be necessary, if the assets prove deficient.

In the laws of the United States, this term is need to denote sums of money received by the government or its officers which, for any cause, are to be refunded or restored to the p

The act of declining to receive or to do something. In some cases, a neglect to perform a duty ■vnll be construed as a refusal; but, ordinarily, demand is essential to refusal. 6 G

This court does not think that the refusal of an inferior court to receive an additional plea, or to amend one already filed, can ever be assigned as error. This depends so much on

there can be no breach of the statutory duty by the employer—when he has not refused to receive communications from his employees—without some indication given to him by them or th

To decline to accept; to reject; To decline to submit to or undergo.

any material, however valuable, which becomes unsalvageable when introduced into the water.

a party 'refuses to obey' simply by failing to comply with an order

Although the words 'refusing to comply,' may, in general, have the same operation in law as the words 'failing to comply' would have; yet, in this case, they are accompanied and ex

In old records An acquittance or acknowledgment of renouncing all future claim. Cowell.

In old French law. A payment made to the seigneur of a fief, on the election of every bishop or other ecclesiastical feudatory, corresponding with the relief paid by a lay feudator

The temporal rights and privlleges of a bishop. Cowell.

Whales and sturgeons. 2 Steph. Comm. 19, note 448. REGALE (Law Lat.) In old French law. A payment made to the seigneur of a fief, on the election of every bishop or other ecclesias

Same as Royal fishes.

This seems to be an abbreviation of "jura regalia," royal rights, or those rights which a king has by virtue of his prerogative. Hence owners of counties palatine were formerly sai

To do homage or fealty to the sovereign by a bishop when he is invested with the regalia.

Royal prerogatives inseparable from sovereignty. See 1 Bl. Comm. 241.

Royal prerogative of collecting revenue. See 1 Bl. Comm. 241.

A territorial jurisdiction in Scotland conferred by the crown. The lands were said to be given in liberam regalitatem, and the persons receiving the right were termed "lords of reg

to have relation to or bearing upon: relate to," and is the equivalent of "relation" and "respect." Id., at 1911.

Annexed to the manor. See 2 Bl. Comm. 93.

I. I. In old English Imp. A tri eant per forestas ad faciendum go through the forests to make regard.

In forest law. A tribunal held every third year, for the lawing or expedita tion of dogs, to prevent them from chasing deer. Cowell.

In English law. A supervising

An ancient officer of the forest, whose duty it was to take a view of the forest hunts, and to inquire concerning trespasses, offenses, etc. Manwood.

In old English law. The oversight or inspection of it, or the oifice and province of the regarder, who is to go through the whole forest, and every bailiwick in it, before the hold

I I In old English law. Regard

Co. Litt. 165. The kingdom is not divisible.

I. The king not advised; to proceed in a cause which may prejudice out advising him.

A writ to stay proceedings which might affect the king's interests, until he could be advised.

The authority of the person in monarchical countries invested with the right of governing the state, in the name of the monarch, during his minority, absence, sickness, or other in