Law Dictionary

The defendant’s abandonment of his plea or defense to an action.

L. Lat. Where a judgment was coniessed by cognovit actionem after pica pleaded, and the plea was withdrawn, it was called a "conlession" or "cognovit actionem relictai verification

A confession of judgment after having filed a plea.

Land made by the recession of the water by which it was previously covered. See 186 111. 235, 78 Am. St. Rep. 274, 57 N. E. 867.

“relief” includes the whole or a part of an agency— (A) grant of money, assistance, license, authority, exemption, exception, privilege, or remedy; (B) recognition of a claim, righ

PRAYER FOR. A bill in equity concludes with such prayer for specific relief as the plaintiff deems himself entitled to under the averments of the bill; and a prayer for general rel

See Railroad Relief Funds.

Under the general prayer for relief, the Court will often extend relief beyond the specific prayer, and not exactly in accordance with it. Where a case for relief is made in the bi

In feudal law. To hold or depend; thus, a tenant was said to relieve of the crown. Now obsolete. RELIGION (Lat. re, back, ligo, to bind). Real piety in practice, consisting in the

“reliever airport” means an airport the Secretary designates to relieve congestion at a commercial service airport and to provide more general aviation access to the overall commun

all aspects of religious observance and practice, as well as belief, unless an employer demonstrates that he is unable to reasonably accommodate to an employee's or prospective emp

In English law. They are thus enumerated by Black-stone: (1) Apostasy; (2) heresy; (3) reviling the ordinances of the church ; (4) blasphemy; (5) profane swearing; (6) conjuration

The religion (of the child) follows (that of) the father.

When religious books or reading are spoken of, those which tend to promote the religion taught by the Christian dispensation must be considered as referred to, unless the meaning i

In this section, the term “religious apparel” means apparel the wearing of which is part of the observance of the religious faith practiced by the member.

An assembly of religious persons. See 25 N. C. 111.

Those which tend to promote the religion taught by the Christian dispensation, unless by associated words the meaning is so limited to show that some other form of worship is refer

Any corporation the charter powers of which are to be used in aid of the propagation and practice of a religious belief, but the fact that a corporation is under the control of mem

See Religious sect .

Questions respecting the religious education of children arise not infrequently by reason of applications to the courts for either restraining or mandatory process intended to cont

The term “religious exercise” includes any exercise of religion, whether or not compelled by, or central to, a system of religious belief.

the term “religious group” means a set of individuals whose identity as such is distinctive in terms of common religious creed, beliefs, doctrines, practices, or rituals; and

Places set apart for pious uses; such as monasteries, churches, hospitals, and all other places where charity was extended to the relief of the poor and orphans, or for the use or

Those who ship of God, the preservation and perpetuafalsely pretend an extraordinary commission tion of said church, and the better control from heaven, or terrify and abuse the pe

The Constitution makes no provision for protecting the citizens of the respective states in their religious liberties; this is left to the state constitutions and laws: nor is ther

Men who lived in monasteries; monks.

The term “religious nonmedical health care institution” means an institution that— (A) is described in subsection (c)(3) of section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and is

The term “religious organization” means a nonprofit religious organization.

Those sentiments concerning the relations between God and man which may influence human conduct. See 51 N. J. L. 432, 14 Am. St. Rep. 693, 17 Atl. 969.

As used in this section, the term "religious real property" means any church, synagogue, mosque, religious cemetery, or other religious real property, including fixtures

People believing in the same religious doctrines who are more or less closely associated or organized to advance such doctrines and increase the number of believers therein. See 76

An incorporated society created and maintained for the support of public worship. See 99 Mo. App. 601, 74 S. W. 409.

A belief in certain dogmas of religion which are prerequisite to the holding of a civil office, or the exercise of any civil right. "No religious test shall ever be required as a q

A sincere and meaningful belief which occupies in the life of its possessor a place parallel to that filled by the God of those admittedly qualifying for the exemption comes within

See Charitable Uses.

See Charitable uses .

The act of assembling for the purpose of performing acts of adoration to the Supreme Being, or of performing religious service in the recognition of God as an object of worship, lo

See Abandon; Derelict; Discharge; Quit; Release; Remit, 3, 3; Renounce; Waive.

A forsaking, abandoning, or giving over a right; for example, a plaintiff may relinquish a bad count in a declaration, and proceed on a good; a man may relinquish a part of his cla

This court on several occasions has held, that the taxing power of a state is never presumed to be relinquished, unless the intention to relinquish is declared in clear and unambig

The remainder or debt which a person finds himself debtor in upon the balancing or liquidation of an account. Hence reliqiiary, the debtor of a reliqua; as also a person who only p

Remains; such as the bones, etc., of saints, preserved with great veneration as sacred memorials. They have been forbidden to be used or brought into England. St. 3 Jac. I. c. 26.

(Civil Law) The renewal of a lease without change in its terms.

In Scotch law. A reletting or renewal of a lease; a tacit relocation is permitting a tenant to hold over without any new agreement. REM domino vel non domino vendente duobus. In ju

The term "relocation allowances" means the costs associated with relocating a member of the uniformed services and the member's dependents between an old and new temporar

For purposes of this section and section 928 of this title, the term "relocation or sharing costs" means the costs incurred by a Federal entity in connection with the auc

See In rem ; Ad rem.

1. When an accused person, after a partial hearing, is sent back to prison to await further proceedings, as, the collection of testimony, the magistrate is said to remand him, and

The remnant of an estate in lands or tenements expectant on a particular estate created together with the same at one time. Co. Litt. 143a. To constitute a valid remainder at commo

A use so qualified that it will take effect as a remainder.

One who is entitled to the remainder of the estate after a particular estate carved out of it has expired.

One who is entitled to the remainder of the estate after a particular estate carved out of it has expired. WiU. Real P. 290.

a continuous activity, and this Court has followed that ordinary meaning in analogous legal contexts, see, e. g., United States v. Cores, 356 U. S. 405, 408.

The term “remaining obligations” means the debt obligations of the Association outstanding as of the dissolution date.

The term “remaining property” means the following assets and liabilities of the Association which are outstanding as of the reorganization effective date: (A) Debt obligations issu

The Secretary may establish such additional conditions on loans provided under this section as the Secretary determines to be appropriate. The Secretary may require owners receivin

(L. Lat.) In old European law. To summon to court a second time; to resummon. Spelman.

The 'remand' does not encroach upon administrative functions. It means simply that the case is returned to the administrative body in order that it may take further action in accor

Whenever any cause shall be removed from any state court into any district court of the United States, and the district court shall decide that the cause was improperly removed, an

Remainder, which see.

They remain for want of purchasers, i. e., goods offered for sale by a sheriff.

To demur.

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

A cause ready for trial but which must await the next term of court.

I. fr. To send back; to remand.

The term “remanufactured good” means a good that is classified under chapter 84, 85, or 87, or heading 9026, 9031, or 9032, other than a good classified under heading 8418 or 8516,

The term “remanufactured product” means a rechargeable consumer product that has been altered by the replacement of parts, repackaged, or repaired after initial sale by the origina

One, whether owner or not, having sold a thing to two persons, he to whom it was sold first is the stronger in right.

That which affords a remedy; as, a remedial statute, or one which is made to supply some defects or abridge some superfluities of the common law. 1 Bla. Com. 86. The term remedial

Same as Remedial statute.

The term “remedial action” has the meaning given that term by section 101(24) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 ( 42 U.S.C. 9601(

“Remedial Action Plan” means a written document which embodies a systematic and comprehensive ecosystem approach to restoring and protecting the beneficial uses of areas of concern

Only those cases wherein the remedy is afforded summarily through certain extraordinary writs, such as prohibition, mandamus, certiorari and quo warranto. See 35 Minn. 222, 28 N. W

Such an order against an offending suitor is deemed remedial when its purpose is to indemnify the injured suitor, or coercively to secure obedience to a mandate in his behalf

The dismissal here is not regarded by us as a penalty imposed as a punishment for criminal contempt. It is an exercise of a state court's inherent power to use its processes to ind

That part of the body of the law which contains the remedies by which rights are enforced and wrongs redressed, and the rules by which the substantive law (g. V.) is applied. ing g

The remedial part of the law is so necessary a consequence of the former two, that laws must be very vague and imperfect without it. For, in vain would rights be declared, in vain

The term “remedial period” means the 365-day period beginning on the date on which a certification is issued with respect to a foreign country.

the distinction, with respect to the effect of state legislation, has come to be clearly established between substantive and remedial rights. A state statute of a mere remedial cha

They are provided primarily as a safeguard for the protection of the revenue and to reimburse the Government for the heavy expense of investigation and the loss resulting from the

The statute was remedial, in the purest sense of that term, and neither enlarged nor impaired respondent's substantive rights or obligations under the contract. It did nothing more

the remedies in the courts of the United States are to be at common law or in equity, not according to the practice of the state courts, but according to the principles of common l

a procedure that provides redress for wrong or enforcement of a right.

The remedy of him who is primarily liable against him who is secondarily liable for the same debt.

KING’S. He was at the head of the department which had charge of all revenue suits, and of matters pertaining to the office of sheriff. He attended as the officer of the king’s ben

In English law. Officers of the exchequer, whose duty it is to remind the lord treasurer and the justices of that court of such things as are to be called and attended to for the b

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

In French law. Redemption; right of redemption. A sale d r6m6rd is a species of conditional sale with right of repurchase. An agreement by which the vendor reserves to himself the

For purposes of this title, the terms "real estate mortgage investment conduit" and "REMIC" mean any entity— (1) to which an election to be treated as a REMIC a

The term “remined area” means only that area of any coal remining operation on which coal mining was conducted before August 3, 1977.

RELEASE, AND QUITCLAIM. The ordinary effective words in a release. These words are, in this country, sufficient to pass the estate in a primary conveyance. 7 Conn. 250; 24 N. H. 46

In French law. The release of a debt

Operative words of conveyance sufficient to pass all title to the land of which the grantor had not previously divested himself. See 19 Or. 334, 24 Pac. 515.

A release; a pardon; an exoneration.

One who commands the more gently is the better obeyed.

This term imports the doing of the act in question in a tardy, negligent or careless manner; but it does not apply to the entire omission or forbearance of the act. Baldwin v. Unit

To annul a fine or forfeiture. This is generaly done by the courts where they have a discretion by law; as, for example, when a juror is fined for nonattendance in court, after bei

The act of sending back to custody; an annulment. Wharton.

In commercial law. Money sent by one merchant to another, either in specie, bill of exchange, draft, or otherwise.

the term “remittance transfer”— (A) means the electronic (as defined in section 106(2) of the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act ( 15 U.S.C. 7006(2) )) trans