Category: R

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

The receiving or harboring an outlawed person. Cowell.

See CONDITION.

To say that a person is “responsible” means that he is able to pay a sum for which he is or may become liable, or to discharge an obligation which he may

In practice. A second summons. The calling a person a second time to answer an action, where the first summons is defeated upon any occasion; as the death of a party, or

Fr. Return without protest. A request or direction by a drawer of a bill of exchange that, should the bill be dishonored by the drawee, it may be returned without protest.

Coming back to England before the term of punishment is determined.