Remanet

I. I.

In English law. It remains; the postponement of a trial; the cause postponed.

I. A cause pro defectu emptorum a sheriff's return to a sell the goods distrained.

It remains. This word is used in a substantive sense, in English practice, signifying an adjourned cause. When a cause entered for trial cannot be tried during the term, and is postponed, it becomes a remanet. Remanent pro defectu emptomm. when he finds himself unable to sell the goods distrained. In such case, a writ of venditioni exponas may be sued out, ordering him to expose the goods for sale; or if in the mean time the sheriff goes out of office, then a writ called distringas nuper vicecomitem is issued to his successor, commanding him to distrain the late sheriff to sell the goods. (Lush Pract. 610.) The old practice in these cases is continued under the judicature act, 1875 (Stat. 38 & 39 Vict. ch. 77), first schedule, order 43, rule 2. Modey ^ W. REMEfiY. Judicial means of enforcing a right or redressing a wrong. Remedy includes an application for admission to practice. Matter of Cooper, 22 N. Y. 67. Kemedial la'ws, or statutes. Such enactments as have it for their prominent object to give better means of enforcing rights or redressing wrongs; such as aim to supply defects in existing law; in distinction from laws to define and punish crimes; laws to create a revenue, &c.