Category: R

In common law. Relating to land, as distinguished from personal property. This term is applied to lands, tenements, and hereditaments. In the civil law. Relating to a thing, (whether movable or Immovable,)

In the law of evidence. A presumption which may be rebutted by evidence. Otherwise called a “disputable” presumption. A species of legal presumption which holds good until disproved. Best, Pres.

In French law. The state of an individual who commits a crime or misdemeanor, after having once been condemned for a crime or misdemeanor; a re- lapse. Dalloz.

He who enters Into a recognizance.

To register or enroll; to write out on parchment or paper, or in a book, for the purpose of preservation and perpetual memorial; to transcribe a document, or enter the history of

In old English law. The king’s right to prisage, or taking of one butt or pipe of wine before and another behind the mast, as a custom for every ship laden with

Lat. Right in court The condition of one who stands at the bar, against whom no one objects any offense. When a person outlawed has reversed his outlawry, so that he can

A yielding delivering back of a thing.

Lat In logic. The method of disproving an argument by showing .that it leads to an absurd consequence.

To correct, rectify, amend, remodel. Instruments inter partes may be reformed, when defective, by a court of equity. By this Is meant that the court, after ascertaining the real and original intention

To do homage or fealty to the sovereign by a bishop when he is invested with the regalia.

to real property. See Friedley v. Hamilton. 17 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 71, 17 Am. Dec. 638; Cas- tillero v. U. S

The primary meaning of this word is “to pay back.” Philadelphia Trust, etc., Co. v. Audenreid, 83 Pa. 264. It means to make return or restoration of an equivalent for something paid,

In old English law. Banishment for a time only. Co. Litt. 133.

A remnant; that which remains. Thus the causes of which the trial is deferred from one term to another, or from one sittiug to another, are termed “rema- nets.” 1 Archb. Pr.

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.

The act of giving up a right. See RENOUNCE.

THE be resorted to for the purpose of trying the right to such property.

A public and formal censure or severe reproof, administered to a person in fault by his superior officer or by a body to which he belongs. Thus, a member of a legislative

In Scotch law. Inferior fiefs; portions of a fief or feud granted out to inferior tenants. 2 Bl. Comm. 57. Rerum ordo oonfunditnr si nnicuique jurisdictio non servetur. 4 Inst. Proem. The