Category: R

In commercial law. A draft or bill drawn in the place where the original bill was made payable and where it went to protest, on the place where such original bill was

An officer by whom the order of causes was laid before the Roman emperor, the desires of petitioners made known, and answers returned to them. Vicat, Voc. Jur.; Calvin.

An abbreviation of “Regula Plaeitandi.” rule of pleading.

In American law. A court in the state of Pennsylvania which has jurisdiction in matters of probate.

When a sheriff in the “habere facias sci- sinam” had delivered seisin of more than he ought, this judicial writ lay to make him re-‘ store seisin of the excess. Reg. Jud.

1. Liberation, discharge, or settiug free from restraint or confinement. Thus, a man unlawfully imprisoned may obtain his release ou habeas corpus. Barker v. U. S., 22 Ct. CI. 100. 2. The

One who is entitled to the remainder of the estate after a particular estate carved out of it has expired.

Expostulation ; showing of reasons against something proposed ; a representation made to a court or legislative body wherein certain persons unite in urging that a contemplated measure be not adopted or

Rent

When, after issue has been joined in an action, and a verdict given thereon, the pleading is found (on examination) to have miscarried and failed to effect its proper object, viz., of

To exhibit; to expose before the eyes. To represent a thing is to produce it publicly. Dig. 10, 4, 2, 3. To represent a person is to stand in his place ;

That which is contrary to what is stated before, or insensible. A repugnant condition is void. Repntatio est vulgaris opinio nhi non est Veritas. Et vulgaris opinio est duplex, sell.: Opinio vulgaris

In old English law. A rescuer; one who commits a rescous. Cro. Jac. 419; Cowell.

The act of resisting opposition ; the employment of forcible means to prevent the execution of an endeavor in which force is employed. See U. S. v. Jose (C. C.) 63 Fed.

Eat. In pleading. The prayer of a plea where the defendant insists that he ought not to answer, as when he claims a privilege; for example, as being a member of congress

Confinement, abridgment, or limitation. Prohibition of action; holding or pressing back from action. Hindrance, confinement, or restriction of liberty. “What, then, according to a common unaer- standing, is the meaning of the

In international law. A species of retaliation, which takes place where a government, whose citizens are subjected to severe and stringent regulation or harsh treatment by a foreign government, employs measures of

L. Fr. An accusation or charge. St. Westm. 1, c. 2.

A term frequently used in the judgments of an appellate court, in disposing of the case before it. It then means “to set aside; to annul; to va- cate.” Laithe v. McDonald,

The recall of some power, authority, or thing granted, or a destroying or making void of some deed that had existence until the act of revocation made it void. It may be