Category: R

Lat By reason of the person concerned; from the character of the person.

In foreign law. That quality of laws which concerns property or things, (quce ad rem spcctant.) Story, Confi. Laws,

In pleading. A defendant’s answer of fact to a plaintiff’s surrejoinder ; the third pleading in the series on REBUTTING EVIDENCE 995

The formal statement or setting forth of some matter of fact, in any deed or writing, in order to explain the reasons upon which the transaction is founded. The recitals are situated

In feudal law. A method of converting allodial land into feudal property. The owner of the allod surrendered it to the king or a lord, doing homage, and received it back as

A written account of some act, transaction, or instrument, drawn up, under authority of law, by a proper officer, and designed to remain as a memorial or permanent evidence of the matters

As used in the United States internal revenue laws, this term is not confined to a person who runs spirits through charcoal, but is applied to any one who rectifies or purifies

In English law. Persons who willfully absent themselves from their parish church, and on whom penalties were imposed by various statutes passed during the reigns of Elizabeth and James I. Wharton. Those

A repurchase; a buying back. The act of a vendor of property in buying it back again from the purchaser at the same or an enhanced price. The right of redemption is

The entering again into or resuming possession of premises. Thus in leases there is a proviso for re-entry of the lessor on the tenant’s failure to pay the rent or perform the

A name bestowed on the statutes 2 Wm. IV. c. 45, and 30 & 31 Vict c. 102, passed to amend the representation of the people in England and Wales; which Introduced

A term which was applied, in feudal law, to a villein annexed to a manor, and having charge to do all base services within the same, and to see the same freed

Statutes of tbe British parliament are usually cited by the name and year of the sovereign in whose reign they were enacted, and the successive years of the reign of any king

Bank-notes which, after having been once paid, may again be put into circulation.

This term is applied to the survivor of a pair of married people, whether the survivor is the husband or the wife; it means the relict of the uuited pair, (or of

In English law. Officers of the exchequer, whose duty it is to put in remembrance the lord treasurer and the justices of that court of such things as are to be called

In old English law. Denying. 32 Hen. VIII. c. 2.

The redress of an injury ; amends for a wrong inflicted.

In pleading. A reply made by the plaintiff in an action to the defendant’s plea, or in a suit in chancery to the defendant’s answer. General and special. In equity practice, a

In ecclesiastical law. The interposition of objections or exceptions; as. to the competency of witnesses, to the due execution of instruments offered in evidence and the like.