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in Scotland, where a party sues for a debt, and the defendant pleads compensation, i. e., set-off, the plaintiff may allege a compensation on his part; and this is called a “recompensa-

prevent any alteration of It 1 Ld. Rayin. 211. An order or allowance that the verdict returned on the nisi prius roll be recorded.

A writ which lay at common law, where a man had right of advowson of a church, and, the parson dying, a stranger had presented. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 30.

In the civil law. A species of exception or plea to the jurisdiction, to the effect that the particular judge is disqualified from hearing the cause by reason of interest or prejudice.

Lat Beturning; in returning ; while returning. 2 Strange, 985.

The damages or expenses caused by the dishonor and protest of a bill of exchange in a foreign country, where it was payable, and by its return to the place where it

In English law. A further or additional fee to counsel in a long case, which may be, but is not necessarily, allowed on taxation.

Lat In old English law. The royal way; the king’s highway, Co. Litt. 56a.

The ecclesiastical kingdom. 2 Hale, P. C. 324. Regnnm noil est divisibile. Co. Litt 165. The kingdom is not divisible.

A term which, In its widest sense, includes all the kindred of the person spoken of. 2 Jarm. Wills, 061.

An increase of the land by the sudden withdrawal or retrocession of the sea or a river. Hammond v. Shepard, 186 111. 235, 57 N. E. 867, 78 Am. St Rep. 274;

In the civil law. A release of a debt It is conventional, when it is expressly granted to the debtor by a creditor having a capacity to alienate; or tacit, when the

In feudal law, “render” was used in connection with rents and her- iots. Goods subject to rent or heriot-serv- ice were said to lie in render, when the lord might not only

takes place when a person wTho has been expatriated regains his nationality.

In Scotch practice. To replace; to restore to a former state or right. 2 Alis. Crim. Pr. 351.

In old records. Money paid by servile tenants for exemption from the customary duty of reaping for the lord. Cowell.

Rescission, or the act of rescinding, is where a contract is canceled, annulled, or abrogated by the parties, or one of them. In Spanish law, nullity is divided into absolute and relative.

Relating to the residue; relating to the part remaining.

The temporary suspension of the execution of a sentence; a reprieve; a delay, forbearance, or continuation of time. 4 Rl. Comm. 394; Mishler v. Com., 02 Pa. 55, 1 Am. Rep. 377.

The remedy or recourse which marine underwriters have against each other, according to the date of their assurances, or against the master, if the loss arise through his default, as through ill