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Render

Defined in 10 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Anderson (1889), Stimson (1881), Abbott (1879), Bouvier (1839)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

In the civil law. To yield; to return; to give again. It is the reverse 'of "prender." See "Rendition of Judg ment."

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

See In render.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

To yield; to return; to give again: it is the reverse of; premier. See i Etna Life Ins. Co. v. 1 lesser, 77 la. 387, 42 N. W. 325, 4 L. R. A. 122, 14 Am. St. Rep. 297. A judgment is “rendered” when the court makes an order therefor; State v. Biesman, 12 Mont. 11, 29 Pac. 534.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

n. In feudal law, "render" was used in connection with rents and her-iots. Goods subject to rent or heriot-serv-lce were said to lie in render, when the lord might not only seize the identical goods, but might also distrain for them. Cowell.

v. In practice. To give up; to yield; to return; to surrender. Also to pay or perform; used of rente, services, and the like.
—Render judgment. To pronounce, state, declare, or announce the judgment of the court in a given case or on a given state of facts; not used with reference to judgments by confession, and not synonymous with "entering," "docketing," or "recording" the judgment. The rendition of a judgment is the judicial act of the court in pronouncing the sentence of the law, while the entry of a judgment is a ministerial act, which consists in spreading upon the record a statement of the final conclusion reached by the court in the matter, thus furnishing external and incontestable evidence of the sentence given and designed to stand as a perpetual memorial of its action. See Schuster v. Bader, 13 Colo. 329, 22 Pac. 505; Farmers' State Bank v. Bales, 64 Neb. 870, 90 N. W. 945; Fleet v. Youngs, ll Wend. (N. Y.) 522; Schurta v. Romer, 81 Cal. 244, 22 Pac. 657; Winstead v. Evans (Tex. Civ. App.) 33 S. W. 580; Coe . Erb, 59 Ohio St. 259, 52 N. E. 640, 69 Am. St. Rep. 764.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

rendre, I. fr. To give or yield; to pay or perform; to return.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A double fine, comprehending the fine sur cognizance de droit come ceo and the fine sur concessit. It might be used to convey particular limitations of estates, whereas the fine sur cognizance de droit come ceo, etc., conveyed nothing but an absolute estate, either of inheritance, or at least freehold. In this last species of fines, the cognizee, after the right was acknowledged to be in him, granted back again or rendered to the cognizor, or perhaps to a stranger, some other estate in the premises. 2 Bl. Comm.

A Dictionary of Law

William C. Anderson · 1889

1. To give up, yield, return. 2. To pay: as, to render rent, q. v. 3. To make up, furnish: as, to render an account. See Account, 1. 4. To determine upon, declare, announce: as, to render a verdict, or a judgment. Rendering a judgment is announcing or declaring the decision of the court. When a judgment is formed in the mind of a justice of the peace and then publicly announced by him it is rendered. "Entered" and "rendered" may be synonymous.*

Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law

Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881

fr. v. Prender. profits, or services which lord to take. Renounce probate. To Rent A certain amount the lord by the tenant pensation for his possession. reversion and may reversion, but may it is determination of the particular estate in any take effect at some time, if not divested. is one which does not fulfil these depends upon an event which may never happen before the determination of the parthe person to take the remainder is being. A remainder limited by way use is so limited that it might take effect case it is so considered; and the use laws which govern remainders at common /. A remainder. postponed to the next term. Remanent (they remain for lack of purchasers): writ oiji.fa. that he has been unable to by which a disseisee having good title, defective title and enters under it, is remittitle and deemed to hold thereby, free disseisor, v. Quod remedio, etc. entry of the plaintiff on the record that damages awarded him by the verdict. back of a record from a superior to entry of judgment, new trial, or other proemergit actio, I. The bar beiag re- To yield; pay; return; used of rents, the tenant had to render, not the landrefuse to act as executor under a will. of money, goods, or services rendered to in acknowledgment of tenure and com- If the grantor of the land have a distrain, it is rent service; if he have no nevertheless distrain by special clause in the if he have reversion of rents. Rack rents, White rents, rents of assize: see those titles.

Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879

To give up; to yield; to surrender. Also, to paj' or perform; as to render homage or rent. There are certain things in a manor which lie in prender, that is, which may be taken by the lord or his officers when they happen, without any offer made by the tenant, such as escheats, &c.; and certain which lie in render, i.e. must be rendered or answered by the tenant. Jacob. In feudal law, render was used in connection with rents and heriots. Goods subject to rent or heriot-service were said to lie in render, when the lord might not only seize the identical goods, but may also digtrain for them. Cowel.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States

John Bouvier · 1839

To yield; to return; to give again: it is the reverse of pointed for meeting. Among seamen it is usual when vessels sail under convoy, to have a rendezvous, case of dispersion by storm, an enemy or other accident. The place where military men meet and lodge also called a rendezvous.