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formation or advice as to the character, solvency, standing, etc., of a third person, who desires to open business relations with the first, or to obtain credit with him. —Reference in casc of need. When a person draws or indorses a bill of exchang...
Lat. In practice. A rule. Regula generalis, a general rule; a standing rule or order of a court. payers abbreviated, “Reg. Gen.” ~Regula Oatoniana. In Roman law. ‘The
Lat. General rules, which the courts promulgate from time to time for the regulation of thetr practice.
When a sheriff in the “habere facias setsinam” had delivered seisin of more than he ought, this judicial writ lay to make him restore seisin of the excess. Reg. Jud. 18, 51, 54.
Lat Where a judgment was confessed by cognovit actiunem after plea pleaded, and the plea was withdrawn, it was called a “confession” or “cognovit actionem relicta verificatione,” Wharton.
1. An order of court directing the removal of a pauper from the poor district upon which he has illegally become a charge to the district in which he has his settlement.
145-154 Indiana; also Indiana Appellate Court Reports.
lish practice. Refusing to take upon one’s self the office of executor or executrix. Refusing to take out probate under a will wherein one has been appointed executor or executrix. Holthouse.
RENDER, v. In practice. To give up; Lat. In old English law. To renew. Annuatim renovere, to renew annually. <A phrase applied to profits which are taken and the product renewed again.
1-4 New York Court of Appenis.
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 Reports, vols. 54-70 Indiana....
court of session, when his judgment is brought under review. 87 N. J. . 448; Merchants’ Nat. Bank v.
> 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 without appeal is, in reference to ...
HABENDO. A writ for respiting a sheriff’s account addressed to the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Keg. Orig. 18&
VEL PETENDUM. He who appears and answers for another in court at a day assigned; a proctor, attorney, or deputy. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 169.
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. Myers, 132
Fr. InFrench jaw. A formula put upon a bill of exchange to signify that the drawer waives protest, and will not be responsible for costs arising thereon. Arg. Fr. Merc. Law, 573.
Lat. In practice. An open and voluntary renunciation by a plaintiff of his suit in court, made when the trial is called on, by which he forever loses his action, or is barred from commencing another action for the game cause. 3 Bl. Comm. 206; 2 Archb...
judicial writ addressed to the sheriff for the final restitution or return of cattle to the owner when unjustly taken or distrained, and so found by verdict. It is granted after & nonsult in a second deliverance. Reg. Jud.- 27.
1901, p. 1941). But see Jones v. Giles, 10 Exch. 119, as to an English custom of reckoning a ton of iron “long weight” as 2,400 pounds.—Long va= eation. The recess of the English courts from August 10th to October 24th.
tipon'the account of the reve of bailiff of the manor. Spel. Feuds, cc. 24.
Lat. Strictness of law. Latch, 150. Distinguished from gretia curie, favor of the court.
29-31 Louisiana Annual. Rebertson. Robertson’s Scotch Appeal
166; Fleming Oil Ca. v. South Penn Oil Co., 37 W. Va. 653, 17 8. E. 203. In surgical practice, the term is of indefinite import, but may be approximately defined as. an act or succession of acts performed upon the body of a patient, for his relief or...
301. The execution of law does no
206. See Appeal of Hoopes, 60 Pa. 227, 100 Am. Dec. 562.
within a given time, on pain of having judgment taken against him by default—Rule te show cause. A rule commanding the pay to appear and show cause why he should not be compelled to do the act required, or why the object of the rule should not be e...
passes to the assignee of that reversion Brown. Lat. In mart time law. A rough or rude judgment or decision. A judgment in admiralty dividing
1901, p. 3396). 1901, pp. 2375, 2376).—Foreign courts. he courts of a foreign state or nation. In the United States, this term is frequently applied to the courts of one of the states when their judgments or records are introduced in the courts of...
SERVE. In Scotch practice. To render a verdict or decision in favor of a person claiming to be an heir; to declare the fact of his heirship judicially. A jury are said to serve a claimant heir, when they find him to be heir, upon the evidence submitt...