Return Day

A day appointed by law when all writs are to be returned which have issued since the preceding return day. The sheriff is, in general,. not required to return his writ until the return day. After that period he may be ruled to make a return.

A day appointed by law when all writs are to be returned which have issued since the preceding return-day. The sheriff is, in general, not required to return his writ until the return-day. After that period he may be ruled to make a return. See Rule Day; Crastinum; Term. RETURN OF PREMIUM^ A repayment of a part or the whole of the premium paid. Policies of insurance, especially those on marine risks, not unfrequently contain stipulations for a return of the whole or a part of of any such stipulation, in a case free of fraud on the part of the assured, if the risk does not commence to run, he is entitled to a return of it, if paid, or an exoneration from his liability to pay it, subject to deduction settled by stipulation or usage; and so, pro rata, if only a part of the insured subject is put at risk; 2 Phill. Ins. ch. xxii. sect, i.; and so an abatement of the excess of marine interest over the legal rate is made in hypothecation of ship or cargo in like case; id. sect. vii.

The day named in a writ or process, upon which the officer is required to return it.

Defined under Return in Black's Law Dictionary.