Law Dictionary

A writ of right of dower whereof the widow had nothing, which lay where her deceased husband, having divers lands or tenements, had assured no dower to his wife, and she thereby wa

A writ of right of the reasonable part, which lay between privies in blood; as brothers in gavelkind, sisters, and other coparceners, for land in fee simple. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 9. R

See De recto patens .

A writ of right, when or because the lord had remitted his court, which lay where lands or tenements in the seignory of any lord were in demand by a writ of right Fitzh. Nat Brev.

In ecclesiastical law. One who RECTOR PROVINCIAE (Lat.) In the Roman law. The governor of a province. Code, 1. 40.

Same as Great tithes.

Great or predial tithes.

Lat In Roman law. The governor of a province. Cod. 1, 40.

A Roman provincial governor.

A rector of a parish who has not the cure of souls. 2 Steph. Comm. 683.

In English law. Corporeal real property, consisting of a church, glebe lands, and tithes. 1 Chit. Prac. 163. RECTUM (Lat.) Right; also a trial or accusation. Bracton; Cowell.

An abolished writ on disclaimer.

STARE AD. To stand trial or abide by the sentence of the court. RECTUS IN CURIA (Lat. right in court). The condition of one who stands at the bar, against whom no one objects any o

To be right in court.

To ask for right; to petition the judge to do right.

To ask for right; to petition the judge to do right.

To stand trial or abide by the sentence of the court.

Right in court; exonerated.

To recover; literally, to get again — J-e-copere. Quod recuperet. That he may recover. The ordinary form of a judgment at law for the plaintiff. See Recover.

I. e., AD REM, PER IN- Juriam extortam sive detentam, pep sententiam judicis restitutio. Recovery, i. e., restitution by sentence of a judge of a thing wrongfully extorted or detai

Co. Hitt. 154a. Recovery is the acquisition by sentence of a judge of anything brought into the cause of another.

Recovery, that is, restitution through the judgment of a court of a thing wrongfully extorted or detained.

Roman judges.

Recourse must be had to the extraordinary when the ordinary does not succeed.

We must have recourse to what is extraordinary, when what is ordinary falls.

Insanity which returns from time to time. See 22 Tex. App. 279, 58 Am. Rep. 638, 3 S. W. 539.

The term “recurring plan or report” means a plan or report submitted on a recurring basis.

See Irrecusable .

In English law. A person who refuses to make the declarations against Catholicism, and promotes, encourages or professes the Catholic religion.

In English Law. Persons who wilfully absent themselves from their parish church, and on whom penalties were imposed by various statutes passed during the reigns of Elizabeth and Ja

In civil law. A plea or exception by which the defendant requires that the judge having jurisdiction of the cause should abstain from' deciding, upon the ground of interest, or for

In the civil law.

For purposes of this section, the term “recyclable material” means scrap paper, scrap plastic, scrap glass, scrap textiles, scrap rubber (other than whole tires), scrap metal, or s

The term “recycling” or “recycle” means that process (including sorting) by which worn or superfluous materials are manufactured or processed into specification grade commodities t

The term “recycled oil” means— (A) used oil from which physical and chemical contaminants acquired through use have been removed by re-refining or other processing, or (B) any blen

The term “recycled wool” means (1) the resulting fiber when wool has been woven or felted into a wool product which, without ever having been utilized in any way by the ultimate co

The term “recycling” or “recycle” means that process (including sorting) by which worn or superfluous materials are manufactured or processed into specification grade commodities t

In the act of committing the crime.

The term “Redband Trout Reserve” means the Donner und Blitzen Redband Trout Reserve designated by section 460nnn–72 of this title .

The red-book of the exchequer is an ancient record, being a manuscript volume of several miscellaneous treatises, kept in an office in the exchequer. It contains some things (as th

An ancient record, wherein are registered the holders of lands per ba/roniam in the time of Henry III., the number of hides of land in certain counties before the Conquest, and the

Each word should be interpreted distributive. See 101 Va. 537, 63 L. R. A. 920, 44 S. E. 904.

The clause in a deed or other conveyance whereby the grantor creates a reservation in himself. See Reservation .

Giving the reason of his knowledge. In Scotch Practice. A formal phrase used in depositions, preceding the statement of the reason of the witness' knowledge. 2 How. St. Tr. 715.

NIL ALIUD EST QUAM ACquia retro It. To render is nothing more than to restore that which has been received; or, to render is, as it were, to give back, and it is called "rendering"

Co. Litt. 142. To render is nothing more than to restore that which has been received; or, to render is as it were to give back, and it is called "rendering" from "returning," beca

An indorsement on a bail piece when the proper officer has certified that the defendant is in custody.

In old records. A rental, or rent-roll. Cowell.

Rent.

In old records. A renter; a tenant. Cowell.

A judicial confession or acknowledgment that the thing in demand belongs to the demandant, and not to the person surrendering. Cowell.

or REDITUS. Something given back, and particularly a rent. Redditus siccus, or dry rent, was a term of old English law applied to rents for which the landlord in former times had n

See "Redltus Siccus." REDDOUR (Law Fr.) A rendering. Kelham.

See "Redemption."

1. Subject to an obligation of redemption; embodying or conditioned upon, a promise or obligation of redemption; convertible into coin; as, a "redeemable currency." See U. S. v. No

For purposes of this subtitle, the term "redeemable ground rent" means only a ground rent with respect to which—

Rights which return to the conveyor or disposer of land, etc., upon payment of the sum for Which such rights are granted.

“Redeemable security” means any security, other than short-term paper, under the terms of which the holder, upon its presentation to the issuer or to a person designated by the iss

The redelivery after the alteration, if such were the fact, was in legal effect a re-execution of the grant.

A bond filed by a defendant in an attachment or a replevin case to obtain the release of his property from the custody of the officer pending the action. See 24 Or. 198, 33 Pac. 56

A regranting of land demised or leased. REDEMPTIO (Law Lat.) In old English law. A Ransom, or fine. St. Marlb. e. 1. Spelman calls it the heaviest' kind of fine {mulcta gravissima)

EQUITY OF. See "Equity of Redemption." REDEUNDO (Lat.) Returning; in returning; while returning. 3 East, 89; 2 Strange, 985. REDHIBERE (Lat.) In the civil law. To have again; to ha

See Equity of redemption .

One who holds a right of redemption. See Right of redemption .

Redemptions; ran-somings; briberies; heavy fines.

In English law. The payment by the landowner of such a lump sum as shall exempt his land from the land-tax. Mozley & Whitley. —Voluntary redemption, in Scotch law, is when a mortga

To redeem property which has been sold under a mortgage for less than the mortgage debt, it is not sufficient to tender the amount of the sale. The whole mortgage debt must be tend

The so-called redemption provisions of the bonds are provisions for the acceleration of maturity at the pleasure of the Government, and upon publication of the notice of call for t

Lab In Roman law, a contract for the hiring or letting of services or for the performance of a certain work in consideration of the payment of a stipulated price. It is the same ce

The term "redesignated area" means any census tract that ceases to be qualified under subparagraph (A) and any nonmetropolitan county that ceases to be qualified under su

the term “redesignation bonus” means a bonus under section 9804 paid to an individual described in subsection (a)(2) thereof;

the term “redetermination” means redetermination of eligibility under sections 1611(c)(1) and 1614(a)(3)(H) of the Social Security Act [ 42 U.S.C. 1382(c)(1) , 1382c(a)(3)(H)]; and

The term “redetermined deductions” means deductions (other than redetermined rents) of a taxable REIT subsidiary of a real estate investment trust to the extent the amount of such

The term “redetermined rents” means rents from real property (as defined in section 856(d)) to the extent the amount of the rents would (but for subparagraph (F)) be reduced on dis

The term “redetermined TRS service income” means gross income of a taxable REIT subsidiary of a real estate investment trust attributable to services provided to, or on behalf of,

Lat. Returning; in returning; while returning. 2 Strange, 985.

In old French and Canadian law. Dues payable by a tenant to hls lord, not necessarily in money.

The term “redevelopment purposes” means, with respect to any designated blighted area— (i) the acquisition (by a governmental unit having the power to exercise eminent domain) of r

With the marks of crime fresh on him.

Lat. In the civil law. To have again; to have back; to cause a seller to have again what he had before.

or REDHIBITION. The civil-law name for buyer's rescission of the contract of sale; the returning a thing purchased for defects, and annulling the sale. Redhibitory action. A suit t

In civil law. The returning of a thing purchased to the seller, on the ground of some defect or fraud. Calv. Lex. The avoidance of a sale on account of some vice or defect in the t

In civil law. An action instituted to avoid a sale on account of some vice or defect in the thing sold which renders its use impossible, or so inconvenient and imperfect that it mu

Such a defect in the article as would warrant the vendee in returning it.

In the civil law. A defect in an article sold, for which the seller may be compelled to take it back; a defect against which the seller is bound to warrant Poth. Cont. Sale, no. 20

Same as Redhibitory defect.

For, if upon his return to New-Orleans after the war, he acquired a domicil there, (of which, the circumstance of his becoming the owner of a privateer in that port, affords a stro

One held by a bank, which it indorses and procures another bank to discount. See 41 C. C. A. (U. S.) 652, 101 Fed. 746.

In old English law. A second disseisin of a person of the same tenements, and by the same disseisor, by whom he was before disseised. 3 Bl. Comm. 188; Pleta, lib. 4, c. 29. Called

Rents; revenue; income.

Lat A revenue or return; income or profit; specifically, rent. —Reditus albi. White rent; blanche farm; rent payable in silver or other money. —Reditus assisus. A set or standing r

White rents, which see.

A set or standing rent.

Chief rent paid by freeholders to go quit of all other services. REDITUS NIGRl. A rent payable in grain, work, and the like. It was also called "black mail." This name was given to

Black rents, which see.

Quit rents, which see.

Rent seek. See "Rent."

Same as Redmen.

Customary tenants required to ride on the business or errands of their lord. REDOBATORES (Law Lat.) Those that buy stolen cloth, and turn it into some other color or fashion, that

Thieves who dyed cloth to conceal their larceny of it.