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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

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

In mining law, Is to actually begin work anew with a bona fide intention of prosecuting it as required by the statute (U. S. Rev. Stat. § 2324). 104 Cal. 229. RESUMMONS (Law Lat. resummonitio), In practice. A second summons. The calling a person a second time to answer an action, where the first summons is defeated upon any occasion, as the death of a party, or the like. Cowell. RESUMPTION (Law Lat. resumptio).

In old English law. The taking again into the king's hands such lands or tenements as before, \upon false suggestion or other error, he had delivered to the heir or granted by letters patent to any man. St. 31 Hen. VL c. 7; Cowell.