Category: R

In practice. A transfer of a suit or cause out of one court into another, which is effected by writ of error, certiorari, and the like. 11 Coke, 41.

Lat. The defendant being absent; in the absence of the defendant.

A personal action ex delicto brought to recover possession of goods unlawfully taken, (generally, but not only, applicable to the taking of goods distrained for rent,) the validity of which taking it

The forcibly taking a thing by one nation which belonged to another, in return or satisfaction for an injury committed by the latter on the former. Vattel, b. 2, c. 18, s.

Rerum progressus ostendunt multa, quae in initio praecaveri sen praevideri non possnnt. 6 Coke, 40. The progress of events shows many things which, at the beginning, could not be guarded against or

Residence, abode, or continuance.

To go back. “It resorted to the Hue of the mother.” Hale, Com. Law, c. 11. RESORT 1028 RESPONDENTIA

Answering; constituting or comprising a complete answer. A “re sponsive allegation” is one which directly answers the allegation it is intended to meet.

Where copyhold land has been mortgaged by surrender, and the mortgagee has been admitted, then, on the mortgage debt being paid off, the mortgagor is entitled to have the land reconveyed to

To take back. To retract an offer is to withdraw it before acceptance, which the offerer may always do.

The official who conducts a parliamentary election in England. The sheriff In counties, and the mayor in boroughs. Wharton.

To revert is to return. Thus, when the owner of an estate in land has granted a smaller estate to another person, on the determination of the latter estate, the land is

Lat. The king. The king regarded as the party prosecuting in a criminal action; as in the form of entitling such actions, “Rex v. Doe.” Rex debet esse sub lege quia lex

A term of the stock-exchange, denoting the practice of inflating the price of given stocks, or enhancing their quoted value, by a system of pretended purchases, designed to give the air of

In criminal law. A trick practised by a criminal, by which, on receiving a good piece of money in payment of an article, he pretends it is not good, and, changing it,

Fr. In insurance law; the dissolution of a policy or contract of insurance for any cause. Emerig. Traitfi des Assur. c. 16.

Lat. In Roman law. The proposer of a law or rogation.

Heathy ground, or ground full of liug; also watery aud moorish land. 1 Inst. 5.

A payment reserved by the grantor of a patent, lease of a mine, or similar right, and payable proportionately to the use made of the right by the grantee. See Raynolds v.

A covenant is said to “run with the reversion” when either the liability to perform it or the right to take advantage of it passes to the assignee of that reversion. Brown.