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This word, as used in reference to the action of replevin, signifies to redeliver goods which have been distrained, to the original possessor of them, on his pledging or giving security to

In English law. Deductions and duties which are yearly paid out of a manor and lands, as rent-charge, rent seek, pensions, corrodies, annuities, etc., so that, when the clear yearly value of

Where a person who has sold goods or other property to a purchaser sells them again to some one else. Sometimes a vendor reserves the right of reselling if the purchaser commits

In old English law. Continually dwelling or abiding in a place; resident ; a resident. Kitchin, 33; Cowell.

A court whose decision is final and without appeal is, in reference to the particular case, said to be a “court of last resort”

In the trial of an action, a party is said to “rest,” or “rest his case,” when he intimates that he has produced all the evidence lie intends to offer at that

To sell by small parcels, and not in the gross. To sell in small quantities. State v. Lowenhaught, 11 Lea (Tenn.) 13; Bridges v. State, 37 Ark. 224; McArthur v. State, 69

in probate practice, is a withdrawal of a renunciation, (q. v.)

A judicial writ, similar to the retorno habendo. Cowell.

Reversion. A possibility of reverter is that species of reversionary interest which exists when the grant is so limited that it may possibly terminate. 1 Washb. Real Prop. 63. See FORMEDON IN

comprehended four gavels, and every gavel had four rliandirs, and four houses or tene- ments constituted every rhandir. Tayl. Ilist. Gav. 09.

created by law and depend upon civilized society; or they are those which are plainly assured by natural law (Borden v. State, 11 Ark. 519, 44 Am. Dec. 217); or those which,

A custom among commission merchants and brokers (not unlike the clearing-house system) by which they exchange contracts for sale against contracts for purchase, or reciprocally cancel such contracts. adjust differences of price

Lat. Duly and formally; legally; properly; technically.

A commission from one judge to another requesting him to examine a witness. See LETTER.

A list of persons who are to perform certain legal duties when called upon In their turn. In military affairs it is a table or plan by which the duty of officers

Directions printed in books of law and in prayer-books, so termed because they were originally distinguished by red ink.

Lands in Scotland where the ridges of a field belong alternatively to different proprietors. Anciently this kind of possession was advantageous in giving a united interest to tenants to resist inroads. By

A political party. The term arose In England, in 1818, when the popular leaders, Hunt Cartwright, and others, sought to obtain a radical reform In the representative system of parliament. Bol- ingbroke

In old English law. A rav- isher. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 52,