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For purposes of subsection (a), the term “return period” means the 12-month period beginning on July 1 of each year. / For purposes of this section, the terms “return” and “claim f

amounts returned or credited which are fixed by contract and do not depend on the experience of the company or the discretion of the management.

The lists, tally sheets and other documents required by law to be turned over by election officers to the clerk of the city or county or other officer. See 59 Minn. 106, 60 N. W. 1

The term "returns processor" or "reverse logistics provider" means a person who owns or operates an establishment that dispositions or otherwise processes salea

A judicial writ, similar to the retomo habendo, Cowell. '

A judicial writ addressed to the sheriff for the final restitution or return of cattle to the owner when unjustly taken or distrained, and so found by verdict. It is granted after

The term "reunification treatment" means a treatment or therapy aimed at reuniting or reestablishing a relationship between a child and an estranged or rejected parent or

A defendant; one guilty of an offense.

The term “reusable item” means a demilitarized component or a removable portion of a vessel or equipment that the Secretary of the Navy has identified as excess to the needs of the

He is guilty of treason and one should die lest all perish.

The term “reuse and recycling property” means any machinery and equipment (not including buildings or real estate), along with all appurtenances thereto, including software necessa

The defendant, by a plea, becomes plaintiff. Bannier, Tr. des Preuves, §§ 152, 320; Best, Ev. 294, § 252.

ut pereat unus ne pereant omnes. A traitor is punished that one may die lest all perish. 4 Coke, 124.

One guilty of treason should be punished, so that one shall die lest all perish.

A traitor is punished that one may die lest all perish. 4 Coke, 124.

See "Reus Stlpulandi."

In the civil law. The party to a stipulation is so called if he is the creditor or obligee, and the debtor or obligor to such a stipulation is called the "reus promittendi." Where

or GREVE (Lat. gerefa, or refa, from reafian, to seize). In English law. A chief officer or superintendent (praepositus, praefectus). Properly, according to Spelman, a collector or

A criminal complaint charged that the defendant did "revel, quarrel, commit mischief, and otherwise behave In a dlsorderly manner." Held, that the word "revel" has a definite meani

In Domesday Book we find land put down as "thane lands," which were afterwards converted into reve lands, i. e., such lands as, having reverted to the king upon death of his thane,

Sports of dancing, masking, etc., formerly used in princes’ courts, the inns of court, and noblemen's houses, commonly performed by night; there was an officer to order and supervi

In Saxon law. The court of the reve, reeve, or shire reeve. 1 Reeve, Hist. Eng. Law, 6. which ha claims to be owner. It applies to immovables as well as movables; to corporeal or i

(Civil Law) An unpaid vendee’s right to recover goods remaining intact in the hands of his insolvent vendee. See 12 Ohio St. 515.

3 Demand that a thing be returned or restored; reclamation of a thing sold. The doctrine of stoppage in, transitu appears to have been derived from, or to be analogous to, revendic

A malicious injury inflicted in return for an injury. See 2 Idaho, 76, 3 Pac. 688.

(L. Fr. and Eng.) That which returns, or is returned; a rent. Income; annual profit received from lands or other property. Cowell.

The income of the government arising from taxation, duties, and the like; and, according to some correct lawyers, under the idea of revenue is also included the proceeds of the sal

the practical construction of the Constitution, and the history of the origin of the constitutional provision in question, proves that revenue bills are those that levy taxes in th

The term “revenue derived from local sources” means— (A) revenue produced within the boundaries of a local educational agency and available to such agency for such agency's use; or

Any law which provides for the assessment and collection of a tax to defray the expenses of the government is a revenue law. .Such legislation is commonly referred to under the gen

Laws made for the direct and avowed purpose of creating and securing revenue or public funds for the service of the government. TJ. S. v. Mayo, 1 Gall. 398, Fed. Cas. No. 15,755. S

We do not think that the ordinances of municipal corporations levying taxes can be classed as revenue laws of a State. Congress seems to have intended to give to the State the righ

broader requirements for funds is excess of out-of-pocket expenses, including funds for new investment.

“revenue producing aeronautical support facilities” means fuel farms, hangar buildings, self-service credit card aeronautical fueling systems, airplane wash racks, major rehabilita

For purposes of subparagraph (A), the term “revenue provision” means any existing or former internal revenue law, regulation, revenue ruling, revenue procedure, other published or

the term "revenue sharing" means an arrangement between a covered educational institution and a private educational lender under which— (A) a private educational lender p

For purposes of this paragraph, the term "revenue-sharing arrangement" means an arrangement between an institution and a lender under which— (i) a lender provides or issu

That jurisdiction of the court of exchequer, or of the exchequer division of the high court of justice, by which it ascertains and enforces the proprietary rights of the crown agai

Revenue statutes are not to be regarded as penal, and therefore to be construed strictly. They are remedial in their character, and to be construed liberally, to carry out the purp

Compacts are wont to take their clothing from the subject matter, from the words, the writing, the consent and the delivery.

Compacts usually take their clothing from the thing itself, from words, from writing, from consent, from delivery. Plowd. 161.

In International Law. A declaration by which a sovereign promises that he will observe a certain order, or certain conditions, which have been once established, notwithstanding any

Neither the judgment nor mandate of this court, prescribed, in terms, the judgment which should be rendered by the court of errors of New York... The judgment rendered in the court

To overthrow, set aside, make void, annul, repeal, or revoke, as a judgment, sentence or decree, or to change to the contrary, or to a former condition. See 139 Cal. 298, 96 Am. St

The term “reverse auction” means the portion of an incentive auction of broadcast television spectrum under section 1452(a) of this title , in which a broadcast television licensee

Reverse commute project.—The term “reverse commute project” means a public transportation project designed to transport residents of urbanized areas and other than urbanized areas

The terms “heat pump” or “reverse cycle” mean a product, other than a packaged terminal heat pump, which— (A) consists of one or more assemblies; (B) is powered by single phase ele

Set aside; annulled; vacated. See 7 Kan. 254.

Words used by an appellate court denoting that the judgment of the lower court is set aside and the cause sent back for a new trial. See 68 Cal. 162, 8 Pac. 809.

The term "returns processor" or "reverse logistics provider" means a person who owns or operates an establishment that dispositions or otherwise processes salea

The term “reverse mortgage transaction” means a nonrecourse transaction in which a mortgage, deed of trust, or equivalent consensual security interest is created against the consum

In Scotch law. The propritor of an estate who grants a wadset (or mortgage) ■ of his lands, and who has a right, on repayment of the money advanced to him, to be replaced in his ri

A term frequently used in the judgments of an appellate court, in disposing of the case before it. It then means "to set aside; to annul; to vacate." Laithe v. McDonald, 7 Kan. 254

Such an error as would warrant the appellate court in reversing the judgment. See 6 N. M. 611, 30 Pac. 901.

L. Lat. In old English law. The returning of land to the donor. Flete, lib. 3, cc. 10, 12. Reversio terræ est tanquam terra revertens in possessione donatori, sive haeredibus suis

a reversion is the residue left in the grantor on determination of a particular estate

Judgment binds not only lands of which defendant is actually seised, but also reversions on leases for lives or years; and, therefore, a moiety of a reversion may be extended, and

In reversion; pertaining to a reversion.

The existence of such an interest constitutes an important incident of ownership sufficient by itself to support the imposition of the estate tax.

One to take effect in futuro. A second lease, to commence after the expiration of a former lease. Wharton.

A person who Is entitled to an estate in reversion.

In Scotch law. A debtor who makes a wadset, and to whom the right of reversion is granted. Ersk. Inst. 2. 8. 1. A reversioner. Jacob.

The return of property to a former owner who parted with possession or title by vesting another with an estate in it. See 101 Ga. 395, 29 S. E. 276.

Reversion. A possibility of reverter is that species of reversionary interest which exists when the grant is so limited that it may possibly terminate. See 1 Washb. Real Prop. 63.

To vest again. A seisin is said to revest, where it is acquired a second time by the party out of whom it has been divested. 1 Roper, Hush. & Wife, 353. It is opposed to "divest."

In old European law. To return or resign an investiture, seisin or possession that has been received; to reinvest; to re-enfeoff. Spelman.

A second examination of a matter; ordinarily applied to a re-examination of a judicial or official determination. It is a general term, embracing re-examination obtained by every v

BILL OF. In equity practice. A bill in the nature of a writ of error, filed to procure an examination and alteration or reversal of a decree made upon a former bill, which decree h

while a mere 'abstract declaration' on some issue by the Commission may not be judicially reviewable, an order that determines a 'right or obligation' so that 'legal consequences'

The term "reviewed year" means the partnership taxable year to which the item being adjusted relates.

For purposes of this subsection, the term “review entity” means an entity of up to three reviewers who are administrative law judges or members of the Departmental Appeals Board se

REVIEWEE. Terms used in the caption of a case in Vermont in substantially the same sense as appellant and appellee. Sumner v. Wentworth, 1 Tyler 42.

“reviewing official” means any officer or employee of an authority— (A) who is designated by the authority head to make the determination required under section 3803(a)(2) of this

This right in an incumbent of reviewing a predecessor’s decisions, extends to mistakes in matters of fact, arising from errors in calculation, and to cases of rejected claims, in w

The re-taxing or re-examining an attorney's bill of costs by the master. The courts sometimes order the masters to review their taxation, when, on being applied to for that purpose

the orders of the Commission are final unless (1) beyond the power which it could constitutionally exercise; or (2) beyond its statutory power; or (3) based upon a mistake of law.

The term “review physician” means a physician as prescribed by the Secretary under subsection (f)(1)(D) who meets such additional requirements as may be established by an accredita

The terms “premarket review” and “reviews” include all activities of the Food and Drug Administration conducted prior to approval or clearance of an application, notification, or r

An offence against religion punishable in England by fine and imprisonment 4 Steph. Com. 208. See Blasphemy. REVISED STATUTES OF THE UNITED

To review or re-examine for correction. See 5 Iowa, 1.

the term "revised annuity employee" means any individual who— (A) on December 31, 2012— (i) is not an employee or Member covered under this chapter; (ii) is not performin

the term “revised annuity participant” means any individual who— (A) on December 31, 2012— (i) is not a participant; (ii) is not performing service which is creditable service unde

The term “revised issue price” means the sum of— (A) the issue price of the bond, and (B) the aggregate amount of the original issue discount includible in the gross income of all

The term “revised nonsecurity category” means discretionary appropriations other than in budget function 050.

The term “revised security category” means discretionary appropriations in budget function 050.

A body of statutes which have been revised, collected, arranged in order, and re-enacted as a whole. This is thedegal title of the collections of complied laws of several of the st

In English Law. Two officers formerly elected to assist the mayor in revising the parish burgess lists, but now abolished and the duties transferred to the revising barristers.

In English law. Barristers appointed to revise the list of voters for county and borough members of pointed in July or August. 6 Vict. c. 18; 3 Chit. St.

In English law. Couris held in the autumn throughout the country, to revise the list of voters for county and borough members of parliament.

where a revising statute, or one enacted for another, omits provisions contained in the original act, the parts omitted cannot be kept in force by construction, but are annulled.

A review; a re-examination; a looking at again. See 92 Me. 355, 42 Atl. 785.

Of Contracts. An agreement to renew the legal obligation of a just debt after it has been barred by the act of limitation or lapse of time is called its "revival." Of Judgment. At

We can see no sufficient reason, why the legislature should not exercise its discretion in reviving the act of March 1st, 1809, either expressly or conditionally, as their judgment

It is often said that an acknowledgment revives the promise, when it is meant, that it revives the debt or cause of action. The revival of a debt, supposes that it has been once ex

the promise by which a discharged debt is revived must be clear, distinct, and unequivocal. It may be an absolute or a conditional promise, but in either case it must be unequivoca

Where a second Will is destroyed, without more, the preceding Will, not having been cancelled, is, generally speaking, ipso facto revived.

To give life to again; to create. See 153 Ind. 460, 47 L. R. A. 489, 53 N. E. 950. To restore the existence of a debt by admission of it and thus to remove the bar of the statute o

A statute, providing that causes of action founded on contract are " revived " by an admission or new promise, does not imply that the new promise must be made after the debt is ba

In equity practice. A bill used to renew an original bill which, for some reason, has become inoperative. The purpose of a revivor is to renew a dormant judgment and to give it its

Susceptible of being revoked.