Law Dictionary

The regaining of a nationality once lost; the converse of "expatriation."

To replace a pavement by a new one. See 65 Hun, 194, 20 N. Y. Supp. 157.

To return or restore money or property. See 19 Kan. 388, 27 Am. Rep. 125.

The term “repayment contract” shall mean any contract providing for payment of construction charges to the United States.

“repayment date” means the end of the period within which the Administrator's rates are to assure the repayment of the principal amount of a capital investment; and

The abrogation or destruction of a law by a legislative act. A repeal is "express," as, when it is literally declared by a subsequent law, or "implied," when the new law contains p

The abrogation or annulling of a statute by a subsequent ona

Previous decisions of this court have settled the proposition that whether such exemption has been in fact repealed by a subsequent state statute is a question of state law in whic

Repeals by implication are never favored, and a later treaty will not be regarded as repealing an earlier statute by implication unless the two are absolutely incompatible and the

I. fr. To repeal or revoke.

That the legislature can repeal statutes creating private corporations, or confirming to them property already acquired under the faith of previous laws, and by such repeal can ves

Repeals by implication are not favored, and least of all where inveterate usage forbids the implication.

The term “repeat intoxicated driver law” means a State law or combination of laws or programs that provides, as a minimum penalty, that an individual convicted of a second or subse

He who is infamous is denied the oath.

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.

An infamous person is repelled or prevented from inking an oath. Co. Litt. 158; Bract, fol. 185.

He is defeated in his plea of actions assigned.

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

In French law. A word used to denote the inventory or minutes which notaries are required to make of all contracts which take place before them. Dalloz.

In Civil Law. The act by which a person demands and seeks to recover what he has paid by mistake or delivered on a condition which has not been performed. Dig. 12. 4. 5. The name o

The term “repetitive loss structure” has the meaning given such term in section 4121 of this title . / the term “repetitive loss structure” means a structure covered by a contract

A second or reciprocal distress in lieu of a first which was eloigned. See 3 Bl. Comm. 148.

A repeated, second or reciprocal distress; withernam. 3 Bl. Comm. 148.

A repeated, second or reciprocal distress; withernam. 3 Bl. Comm. 148.

or PECUNIAE REPEtundae. In Roman law. The terms used to designate such sums of money as the sodi of the Roman state, or individuals, claimed to recover from magistratus, judices, o

(Roman Law) Bribery; extortion by an officer.

In Roman law. The terms used to designate such sums of money as the socii of the Roman state or individuals, claimed to recover from magistratus, judices or publici curatores, whic

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

“repair” and “replace” mean to restore to a sound working condition by replacing any part of an odometer or by correcting any inoperative part of an odometer.

The term “replaced property” means— (I) the property transferred in the exchange which qualifies under section 1031, or (II) the property compulsorily or involuntarily converted (w

The term “replacement” means furnishing a new consumer product which is identical or reasonably equivalent to the warranted consumer product. / Replacement.—The term “replacement”

The term “replacement ballast” means a ballast that— (i) is designed for use to replace an existing ballast in a previously installed luminaire; (ii) is marked “FOR REPLACEMENT USE

"Replacement Common Stock" means stock of a Native Corporation issued in exchange for Settlement Common Stock pursuant to section 1606(h)(3) of this title;

“replacement equipment” means motor vehicle equipment (including a tire) that is not original equipment;

the term “replacement fuel” means the portion of any motor fuel that is methanol, ethanol, or other alcohols, natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, hydrogen, coal derived liquid fu

The term “replacement period” means the period which begins 3 months before the date on which the sale of qualified securities occurs and which ends 12 months after the date of suc

“Replacements” shall mean such replacements as may be necessary to keep the project in good operating condition beginning June 1, 1937, but shall not include (except where used in

The term “replacement year” means any taxable year in the replacement period; except that such term shall not include any taxable year after the taxable year in which replacement o

The term “replanted crop” means any agricultural commodity replanted on the same acreage as the first crop for harvest in the same crop year if the replanting is required by the te

To plead anew; to file new pleadings.

In pleading. Making a new series of pleadings. Judgment of repleader differs from a judgment n'on obstante veredicto in this, is in the form or manner of stating the right, and the

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

To receive back by way of pledge; to replevy.

A writ to replevin distrained cattle.

A writ of replevin.

You cause to be replevied. In old English law. The original writ in the action of replevin; superseded by the statute of Marlbridge, c. 21. 3 Bl. Comm. 146.

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

To fill again; to fill up. To replenish a stock of goods means to fill up the stock as reduced by sales. The word necessarily implies exhaustion, reduction or diminution in quantit

In canon law. Where the revenue of a benefice ls sufficient to fill or occupy the whole right or title of the graduate who holds it. Wharton.

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

Property Is said to be replevlable or re-plevisable when proceedings in replevin may be resorted to for the purpose of trying the right to such property.

By the replevin, the securities in the bond are substituted in the place of the goods, which are restored to the tenant, as his sole property; he may sell them; they may be taken i

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

A bond filed to indemnify the sheriff and the defendant or the party in custody of the goods against loss or damage upon their delivery to the plaintiff. See 8 Colo. 90, 5 Pac. 803

Replevin for taking goods, not for keeping them.

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

In old English law. To let one to mainprise upon surety. Cowell.

The plaintiff in a replevin action.

Subject to an action of replevin.

To redeliver goods which have been distrained to the original possessor of them, on his giving pledges in an action of replevin. It signifies, also, the bailing or liberating a man

1. A replevy bond under the act operated a release of the property. 2. Because the surety therein is to be approved by the creditor: a circumstance very material in a bond consider

A plaintiff who files a replication.

A litigant who replies or files or delivers a replication.

Lat In the civil law and old English pleading. To reply; to answer a defendant's plea.

Replication.

Legal effect of a replication is, that it puts in issue all the matters well alleged in the answer, and the rule is, that if none be filed, the answer will be taken as true, and no

In its general sense, a reply is what the plaintiff, petitioner, or other person who has instituted a proceeding says in answer to the defendant's case. In Code Pleading. The secon

In Scotch practice. To replace; to restore to a former state or right. 2 Alls. Crim. Pr. 351.

Held to mean more than pecuniary ability and to include judgment, skill, ability, capacity and integrity, when applied to bidders. See 16 Mont. 145, 50 Am. St. Rep. 476, 28 L. R. A

The term “repo participant” means an entity that, at any time before the filing of the petition, has an outstanding repurchase agreement with the debtor.

As used in this paragraph, the term “report” means, with respect to the Commission, a report, designation, or statement required by this Act to be filed with the Commission. / Defi

The term “reportable acquisition” means the acquisition by an applicable exempt organization of a direct or indirect interest in any applicable insurance contract in any case in wh

The term "reportable death benefits" means amounts paid by reason of the death of the insured under a life insurance contract that has been transferred in a reportable po

The term “reportable event” means— (i) the creation of any foreign trust by a United States person, (ii) the transfer of any money or property (directly or indirectly) to a foreign

The term “reportable food” means an article of food (other than infant formula) for which there is a reasonable probability that the use of, or exposure to, such article of food wi

The term “reportable interest or dividend payment” means any payment of a kind, and to a payee, required to be shown on a return required under— (i) section 6049(a) (relating to pa

The term “reportable payment” means— (A) any reportable interest or dividend payment, and (B) any other reportable payment.

The term “reportable payment transaction” means any payment card transaction and any third party network transaction.

For purposes of this paragraph, the term "reportable policy sale" means the acquisition of an interest in a life insurance contract, directly or indirectly, if the acquir

The term “reportable transaction” has the meaning given to such term by section 6707A(c). / The term “reportable transaction” means any transaction with respect to which informatio

The term “reportable transaction understatement” means the sum of— (A) the product of— (i) the amount of the increase (if any) in taxable income which results from a difference bet

To report.

The term “reported capital gain dividend amount” means the amount reported to its shareholders under clause (i) as a capital gain dividend.

The term “reported exempt-interest dividend amount” means the amount reported to its shareholders under clause (i) as an exempt-interest dividend.

The term “reported interest related dividend amount” means the amount reported to its shareholders under clause (i) as an interest related dividend.

The term “reported item” means any item for which information is required to be furnished under subsection (a).

The term “reported short-term capital gain dividend amount” means the amount reported to its shareholders under clause (i) as a short-term capital gain dividend.

A person who reports the decisions upon questions of law in the cases adjudged in the several courts of law and equity. Wharton.

COUNCIL OF LAW. The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales has charge of reporting and publishing the cases in those two countries.

the term “reporting activity level” means transactions in publicly traded securities at or above a level of volume, fair market value, or exercise value as shall be fixed from time

The term “reporting company”— (A) means a corporation, limited liability company, or other similar entity that is— (i) created by the filing of a document with a secretary of state

The term “reporting day” means a day on which— (A) a packer conducts business regarding livestock committed to the packer, or livestock purchased, sold, or slaughtered by the packe

For purposes of this paragraph, the term “reporting period” means the 6-month period for which a report under this paragraph is made, except that the first reporting period shall b

That communication which the chairman makes to the house upon the close of the investigation in which the committee has been engaged.

Formerly a department of the English court of chancery. Whart

that certain report of the Engineering Advisory Committee dated January 1948, and all appendices thereto; including, basic data, processes, and analyses utilized in preparing that

the term “report of the Lowell Historic Canal District Commission” means the report submitted to the Congress by the Lowell Historic Canal District Commission pursuant to an Act en

The term “report of usage” means a report reflecting an entity’s usage of musical works in covered activities described in subsection (d)(4)(A).

In old were by a second view laid to the forest again, — put back into the forest. Manw. For, Law; Cowell.

A storehouse or place wherein things are kept; a warehouse. Cro. Car. 555.