Law Dictionary

Lat. At this point of affairs; in these circumstances.

To contradict; to do away. Thus, every homicide is presumed to be murder unless the contrary appears from evidence which proves the death; and this presumption it lies on the defen

To defeat an apparent equitable right or claim, by the introduction of evidence showing that, in the particular circumstances, there is no ground for such equity to attach, or that

the legal effect of the presumption was to cast upon the railroad company the duty of producing some evidence to the contrary, whereupon the inference was at an end, and the questi

Testimony addressed to evidence produced by the opposite party. See 69 Cal. 255, 10 Pac. 674.

In pleading. The defendant's third pleading, being his answer to the surrejoinder.

As applied to evidence, evidence adduced on the part of a plaintiff or prosecutor to repel or counteract evidence on the part of a defendant or prisonei-; any evidence adduced to c

That evidence which is given by a party in the cause to explain, repel, counteract, or disprove facts given in evidence on the other side. The term "rebutting evidence" is more par

The term “recalcitrant account holder” means any account holder which— (A) fails to comply with reasonable requests for the information referred to in subsection (b)(1)(A) or (c)(1

In this section, the term “recalcitrant cancer” means a cancer for which the five-year relative survival rate is below 50 percent.

the term "recall" means the dispatch of a notice by a contractor, via mail, courier, or electronic mail, to an involuntarily furloughed employee notifying the employee th

To reverse a judgment on a matter of fact. The judgment is then said to be recalled or revoked; and when it is reversed for an error of law, it is said simply to be reversed, quod

There was not that reshuffling of a capital structure within the framework of an existing corporation contemplated by the term 'recapitalization'.

The act of a person who has been deprived of the custody of another, to which he is legally entitled, by which he peaceably regains the custody of such person; or of the owner of p

Besides, recapture by force of the term would seem most properly applied to cases where an inchoate title only was vested by capture, Can it be said in strict propriety of language

For purposes of subparagraph (A), the term “recapture amount” means any amount allowable as a deduction to the taxpayer which, but for an election under subsection (d)(3), would ha

For purposes of this subsection, the term “recapture event” means— (A) The cessation of the operation of the facility as a qualified child care facility. (B) (i) Except as provided

For purposes of paragraph (1), the term “recapture income” means, with respect to any installment sale, the aggregate amount which would be treated as ordinary income under section

For purposes of this subsection, the term “recapture period” means the 15 taxable years beginning with the second taxable year following the taxable year in which the purchase of t

potins qnain injnrite et delicta maiieant impiinita, /. Positive rules of law (as distinguished from maxims or conclusions of reason) will be receded from [given up or dispensed wi

POTIus quam injuriae et delicta maneant impunita. Positive rules of law will be receded from rather than crimes and wrongs should remain unpunished. Bac. Max. reg. 12; Broom, Leg.

Positive rules ot law [as distinguished from maxims or conclusions of reason] will be receded from, [given up or dispensed with,] rather than that crimes and wrongs should remain u

Settled law will be departed from rather than that wrongs and crimes remain unpunished.

The term “receipt” means a warehouse receipt issued in accordance with this chapter, including an electronic receipt.

One containing a declaration of the payment of a certain sum in full of all claims of a certain kind, or of all demands. See 48 N. Y. 204, 8 Am. Rep. 539.

In old English law. The receiving or harboring of a felon knowingly.

In Massachusetts. A name given to the person who, on a trustee proforthcoming on demand, or in time to respond the judgment, when the execution shall be issued; upon which the good

“receivable” means right to payment, whether or not such right has been earned by performance; and

the amounts must be received as the result of a transaction which involved an actual 'insurance risk' at the time the transaction was executed

It may apply to the obtaining real property, as well as personal. Harlow v. Tufts, 4 Cush. 448, 453.

The word 'received,' as applied to dividends, is not entirely clear, since there are different times at which it reasonably may be claimed the taxpayer receives them. To meet this

A receiver is an indifferent person between parties, appointed by the court to receive the rents, issues, or profits of land, or other thing in question in this court, pending the

One who receives and conceals stolen goods; a person appointed by a court of equity to take possession of property the subject of litigation and to care for the same, under directi

A receiver is not a corporation, and, therefore, not within the terms of a statute applicable to railroad companies, even though cattle from an infected district transported by him

the receiver is not an ordinary chancery receiver or arm of the court appointing him, but a quasi assignee and representative of the creditors; and when the order levying the asses

An officer of the duchy court, who collects all the revenues, fines, forfeifures, and assessments within the duchy.

In English law. An officer appointed in every county to receive the taxes granted by parliament, and remit the money to the treasury.

An English county tax col lector.

An English officer who receives the money from persons who compound with the crown on original writs sued out of chancery. Wharton.

By statutory provision, the receiver of stolen goods, knowing them to have been stolen, may be punished as the principal, in perhaps all the states. To make this offence complete,

One who receives into his possession or under his control, with felonious intent, any stolen goods or chattels with knowledge that they have been stolen. See 204 111. 233, 68 N. E.

An English officer who receives the money from persons who compound with the crown on original writs sued out of chancery. Wharton. RECEIVERS AND TRIERS OF PETItlons. The mode of r

One appointed to take charge of a fund or property to which the receivership extends while the case remains undecided. See 71 N. Y. 3iM5, 27 Am. Rep. 60.

The mode of receiving and trying petitions to parliament was formerly judicial rather than legislative, and the triers were committees of prelates, peers, and judges, and, latterly

A non-negotiable evidence of debt, or debenture, issued by authority of a court of chancery, as a first lien upon the property of a debtor corporation in the hands of a receiver. B

Certificates of indebtedness issued by a receiver, as surety for money borrowed, to carry on the receivership. They are usually made a first lien on the property. See 117 U. S. 434

A receivership is only a means to reach some legitimate end sought through the exercise of the power of a court of equity. It is not an end in itself.

A receivership in a foreclosure suit is limited and special. The rents and profits are impounded for the benefit of a particular mortgagee, to be applied upon the debt in the event

Persons appointed by the English board of trade. The duties of a receiver of wreck are to take steps for the preservation of any vessel stranded or in distress within his district;

the term “receiving agent” shall have the meaning given that term in section 261.2 of title 37, Code of Federal Regulations, as published in the Federal Register on July 8, 2002; a

“Receiving association” means the national banking association into which one or more national banking associations or one or more State banks, located within the same State, merge

The test is not where the shipment originated, but where the obligation of the carrier as receiving carrier originated.

The term “receiving depository institution” means the branch of a depository institution or the proprietary ATM, located in the United States, in which a check is first deposited.

“receiving facility” means a facility or operation where municipal or commercial waste is unloaded from a vessel.

The term “Receiving Office” means a national patent office or intergovernmental organization which receives and processes international applications as prescribed by the treaty and

The offense of receiving stolen goods, knowing them to have been stolen. (95 N. C. 626; 6 Cox, C. C. 353), and at common law it must have been received from the thief (13 Ired. [N.

the term 'receiving' a wager is synonymous with 'accepting' a wager; that it is the making of a gambling contract, not the transportation of a piece of paper, to which the statute

Same as Recens secta.

Fresh pursuit, which see.

The term “recently purchased stock” means any stock in the target corporation which is held by the purchasing corporation on the acquisition date and which was purchased by such co

The term “recently separated veteran” means any veteran who applies for participation under this chapter within 48 months after the discharge or release from active military, naval

In French law. A receipt setting forth the extent of the interest subscribed by a member of a mutual insurance company. Arg. Fr. Merc. Law, 571.

Z. t In old English law. Receiptment; the receiving or harboring of a felon.

1. 1. In old Engli.ih law. To receive; to harbor (a felon).

I. In civil and old English law. A receiver or harborer of a robber or other felon. Receptor,?. In old English law. Receiver; a receiver. Eecepto'r denariornm: receiver of moneys.

For purposes of this section, the term “reception areas” means the areas of the Harry S Truman Federal Building, located at 2201 C Street, Northwest, Washington, District of Columb

[T]he reception of a radio broadcast and its translation into audible sound is not a mere audition of the original program. It is essentially a reproduction... Reproduction in both

An arbitrator.

The time in which the court is not actually engaged in business. In re Gannon, 69 Cal. 541, 11 Pac. 240.

I. In old English law. A going from; a going off or out of land; egress. Recessus maris: a going back, reliction or retreat of the sea.

A regrant; the act of a returning the title of a country to a government which formerly held it, by one which has it at the time; as, the recession of Louisiana, which took place b

An exit; egress.

Receding of the sea. See Reliction .

recettour, I. fr. In old English law. A receiver or harborer of a felon; an accessory after the fact

or RECETTOUR (Law Fr.) In old English law. A receiver or harborer of a felon; an accessary after the fact. Britt. c. 24; One who received and concealed a returned outlaw. Id. c. 12

The receiving or harboring of a felon or an outlaw.

Same as Recetour.

The term “rechargeable battery”— (A) means 1 or more voltaic or galvanic cells, electrically connected to produce electric energy, that is designed to be recharged for repeated use

The term “rechargeable consumer product”— (A) means a product that, when sold at retail, includes a regulated battery as a primary energy supply, and that is primarily intended for

Ransom.

To ransom.

Gee, Right; justice; equity; the whole body of law; unwritten law; law; also a right. There is much ambiguity in the use of this term, an ambiguity which it shares with the French

In French law. The state of an individual who commits a crime or misdemeanor, after having once been condemned for a crime or misdemeanor; a relapse. Many statutes provide that, fo

One who has been convicted previously of a similar crime.

The fundamental mistake of the plaintiff in error is his assumption that the judgment below imposes an additional punishment on crimes for which he had already been convicted and p

The term “recipient” means an individual or entity that receives assistance from a State or State designated entity from amounts made available to the State or State designated ent

the term “recipient agency” means any agency, or contractor thereof, receiving records contained in a system of records from a source agency for use in a matching program;

The term “recipient country” means Canada, Belgium, France, Germany, and the Netherlands.

In civil law. One by which the parties enter into mutual engagements. They are divided into perfect and imperfect. When they are perfectly reciprocal, the obligation of each of the

Mutual accounts. See 79 N. Y. 1, 35 Am. Rep. 496.

the terms “agent institution”, “reciprocal deposits”, and “well capitalized” have the meanings given those terms in subsection (i); and / The term “reciprocal deposits” means depos

The practice results in 'an irrelevant and alien factor,' intruding into the choice among competing products, creating at the least 'a priority on the business at equal prices.' A

Application of the reciprocal trust doctrine requires only that the trusts be interrelated, and that the arrangement, to the extent of mutual value, leaves the settlors in approxim

Same as Mutual will.

Wills made by two or more persons in which they make reciprocal testamentary provisions in favor of each other, whether they unite in one will or each executes a separate one. In r

“reciprocating state” means any foreign nation designated as such by the Administrator under section 1428 of this title;

The term "reciprocity" means reciprocal recognition by Federal departments and agencies of eligibility for access to classified information.

The repetition of some former writing, or the statement of something which has been done. It is useful to explain matters of fact which are necessary to make the transaction intell

It is familiar law, also, which was applied in Carver v. Jackson, 4 Pet. 86, 88, that a mere recital of a fact in a deed is as effectual an estoppel as a covenant. There is no nece

If an election or other fact is required to authorize the issue of the bonds of a municipal corporation, and if the result of that election, or the existence of that fact, is by la