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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

A contract of reinsurance is one by which an insurer procures a third person to insure him against loss or liability by reason of such original insurance. Civ. Code Cal.

Applying to the matter in question; affording something to the purpose. Iu Scotch law, good in law, legally sufficient; as, a “relevant” plea or defeuse.

The remembrancer of the city of London is parliamentary solicitor to the corporation, and is bound to attend all courts of aldermen and common council when required. Pull. Laws & Cust. Lond.

Reward; recompense; salary. Dig. 17, 1, 7. The word “remuneration” means a quid pro quo. If a man gives his services, whatever consideration he gets for giving his services seems ‘to me

and not merely such as are absolutely indispensable for the safety of the ship or the accomplishment of the voyage. The Fortitude, 3 Suinn. 327, Fed. Cas. No. 4,953; Webster v. Seekamp,

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,