Category: R

plied with the terms of the deed of trust.

To remand a prisoner, after a preliminary or partial hearing before a court or magistrate, is to scud him back to custody, to be kept until the hearing is resumed or the

This word is used in law chiefly as the antithesis of “proximate,” and conveys the idea of mediateuess or of the intervention of something else.

(Said to be corrupted from “rent-roll.”) In English law. A roll on which the rents of a manor are registered or set down, and by which the lord’s bailiff collects the same.

To replevy; to redeem a thing detained or taken by another by put ting in legal sureties.

In Contracts. A statement made by one of two contracting parties to the other, before or at the time of making the contract, in regard to some fact, circumstance, or state of

A person’s credit, honor, character, good name. Injuries to one’s rep- utation, which is a personal right, are defamatory and malicious words, libels, and malicious indictments or prosecutions. Reputation of a person

Fr. Resceit; receipt; the receiving or harboring a felon, after the com- mission of a crime. Britt. c. 23.

In criminal law, the offense of obstructing, opposing, aud endeavoring to prevent (with or without actual force) a peace officer in the execution of a writ or in the lawful discharge of

Lat. Answers of jurists; responses given upon cases or questions of law referred to them, by certain learned Roman jurists, who, though not magistrates, were authorized to render such opinions. These responsa

sent by post to a certain address, or unless the consent of a certain person or persons to the transfer or charge is obtained, or unless some other thing is done. Sweet.

In Scotch law. To return a writ to the office in chancery from which it issued.

In practice. To be returned; requiring a return. When a writ Is said to be “returnable” on a certain day, It is meant that on that day the officer must return it.

See ERUOB.

The endeavor of the crew of a vessel, or any one or more of them, to overthrow the legitimate authority of her commander, with intent to remove him from his command, or

In old English law. After-county; i. e., after the end of the county court. A time and place appointed by the sheriff for tlie receipt of the king’s money after the end

In medical jurisprudence. Cadaveric rigidity; a rigidity or stiffening of the muscular tissue and joints of the body, which sets in at a greater or less interval after death, but usually within

L. Lat In the civil law. A chest for the keeping of clothing. Calvin.

Lat. In Roman law. An asking for a law ; a proposal of a law for adoption or passage. Derivatively, a law passed by such a form.

The same as “stock of descent.”