Terms beginning with "R" (401 total)

REPETUNDZ, or PECUNIZ REPE

TUNDZ. In Roman law. The terms used to designate such sums of money as the socii of the Roman state, or individuals, claimed to recover from magistratus, judices, or publict curatorcs, which they had improperly taken or ...

REPLICATIO

Lat. In the civil law and old English pleading. The plaintiff's answer to the defendant’s exception or plea; corresponding with and giving name to the replication in modern pleading. Inst. 4, 14, pr..

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Reporte (now

republished as 2- Ware);:— Davy’s or Davies’: Irish King’s Bench and Hxchequer Reports ;—Davies’ English Patent. Cases;—Davis’: Reports (Abridgment of Sir Edward Coke's Reports);—Davis’ Reports, vol. ...

Reports, vol

32 Louisiana Annual;—Dented. Den. C. OC. Denison’s English Crown Cages. Den. & P. Denison & Pearce’s English 1 Freeman’s King’s Bench Keports and vol. 2 Freeman’s Chancery Reports. See also Freem. 8 Common ...

Reports, vols

80-137 Missourt. Bee amo 99, 101-106, 110-129, Alabama. 13-15 New Jersey Law. 138-24 Pennsylvania;— Harrison’s Reports, vols. 15-17 and 23-29 Indiana. 49-52 Mississippi. 11-21 Texas. 21-30 Georgia;—Martin’s...

REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT. A

government in the republican form; a government of the people; a government by representatives chosen by the people. See In re Duncan, 139 U. S. 449, 11 Sup. Ct. 573, 35 L. Ed. 219; Eckerson v. Des Moines, 137 Iowa, 452,...

REPUDIATION

. REPUDIATION. Rejection; disclaimer ; renunciation; the rejection or refusal of an offered or available right or privilege, or of a duty or relation. See Iowa State Sav. Bank v. Black, 91 Iowa, 490, 59 N. W. 283; Daley ...

REPUDIUM

Lat. In Roman law. A breaking off of the contract of espousals, or of a marriage intended to be solemnized. Sometimes translated “divorce;” but this was not the proper sense. Dig. 50, 16, 191.

RERUM ORDO CONFUNDITUR

. REPUTED. Accepted by general, - vulgar, or public opinion. Thus, land may be reputed part of a manor, though not really so, and a certain district may be reputed a parish or a manor, or be a parish or a manor in reputa...

RERUM PROGRESSUS

Rerum progressus ostendunt multa, qus in initio precaveri seu previderi mon possunt. 6 Coke, 40. The progress of events shows many things which, at the beginning, could not be guarded against or foreseen.

RES

Lat. In the civil law. A thing; an object. As a term of the law, this word has a very wide and extensive signification, including not only things which are objects of property, but also such as are not capable of individ...

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RES 1024

Res mobiles. In the civil law. Movable things; things which may be transported from one place to another, without injury to their substance and form. Things corresponding with the chattels personal of the common law. 2

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Res nullius

he property of nobody. A thing which has no owner, either because a former owner has finally abandoned it, or because it has never been appropriated by any person, or because (in the Roman Jaw) it is not susceptible of p...

RESCEIT

Res inter alios judicate nullum alfis prejudicium faciunt. Matters adjudged in a cause do not prejudice those who were not parties to it. Dig. 44, 2, 1. menced between two others; a8, in an action by tenant for life or ...

RESERVATION

in individual cases, chiefly given in response to inquiries by parties in relation to litigated suits, or to inquiries by the judges, and which became rules for future litigated or doubtful legal questions. Mackeld. Rom....

RESORIPTUM

Lat. In the civil law. A species of imperial constitution, in the form of an answer to some application or petition; a rescript. Calvin.

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RESORT

> RESISTANCE. The act of resisting 6pposition; the employment of forcible means to prevent the execution of an endeavor in which force is employed. See U. 8. v. Jose RESORT, ». A court whoee decision is final and witho...

RESPONDERE NON DEBET

Lat. In pleading. The prayer of a plea where the defendant insists that he ought not to answer, as when he claims a privilege; for example, as being a member of congress or a foreign ambassador. 1 Chit. Pl. *433.

RESPONSA PRUDENTUM

Lat. Answers of jurists; responses given upon cases or questions of law referred to them, by certain learned Roman jurists, who, though not magistrates, were authorized to render such opinions. These responsa constituted...

RESTITUTIO IN INTEGRUM

Lat. In the civil law. Restoration or restitution to the previous condition. This was effected by the prretor on equitable grounds, at the prayer of an injured party, by rescinding or annulling a contract or transaction ...

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RESTITUTION

sponsive allegation” is one which directly answers the allegation it is intended to meet. tt; upon ‘the ‘reversal or setting aside. of: the judgment or order of court under which it was,taken from him. Haebler v. ...

RESTRICTIVE INDORSEMENT. An

indorsement may be so worded as to restrict the further negotiability of the instrument, and it is then called a “restrictive indorsement.” Thus, “Pay the contents to J. 8. only,” or “to J. S. for my use,” ar...

RETAINER

1. The right of retainer is the right which the executor or administrator of a deceased person has to retain out of the assets sufficient to pay any debt due to him from the deceased in priority to the other creditors wh...