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REFALO

take It back; a defect against which the seller is bound to warrant. Poth. Cont. Sale, no. 203.

REFER

1. When a case or action involves matters of account or other intricate details which require minute examination, and for that reason are not fit to be brought before a jury, it

REG JUD

An abbreviation of “Regis- trum Judiciale,” the register of judicial writs.

REGIMIENTO

In Spanish law. The body of regidores, who never exceeded twelve, forming a part of the municipal council, or ayuntamiento, in every capital of a Jurisdiction. 12 Pet. 442, note.

REGULATE

The power to regulate commerce, vested in congress, is the power to prescribe the rules by which it shall be governed, that is, the conditions upon which it shall be conducted, to

RELAXATIO

In old conveyancing. A release; an Instrument by which a person re- linquishes to another his right in anything.

RELOCATION

In Scotch law. A reletting or renewal of a lease; a tacit relocation is permitting a tenant to hold over without any new agreement In mining law. A new or fresh location

REMITTER

Tbe relation back of a later defective title to an earlier valid title. Re- mitter is where he who has the true property or jus proprietatis in lands, but is out of

RENOUNCING PROBATE

In English practice. Refuseing to take upon one’s self the office of executor or executrix. Refuseing to take out probate under a will wherein one has been appointed executor or executrix. Ilolthouse.

REPETUNDARUM CRIMEN

In Roman law. The crime of bribery or extortion in a magistrate, or person in any public office. Calvin.

REPOSITION OF THE FOREST

In old English law. An act whereby certain forest grounds, being made purlieu upon view, were by a second view laid to the forest again, put back into the forest Man- wood

REPUDIUM

Lat In Roman law. A breaking off of the contract of espousals, or of a marriage intended to be solemnized. Sometimes translated “divorce;” but this was not the proper sense. Dig. 50,

RESCRIPTUM

Lat. In the civil law. A species of imperial constitution, in the form of an answer to some application or petition ; a rescript. Calvin.

RESILIRE

Lat. In old English law. To draw back from a contract before it is made binding. Bract fol. 38.

RESPONDENTIA

The hypothecation of the cargo or goods on board a ship as se- curity for the repayment of a loan, the term “bottomry” being confined to hypothecations of the ship herself; but

RESTRAIN

To limit, confine, abridge, narrow down, or restrict. To prohibit from action; to put compulsion upon; to restrict; to hold or press back. To enjoin, (in equity.)

RSTCRNA BREVIUM

he return of writs. The indorsement by a sheriff or other officer of liis doings upon a writ.

REVENUE

As applied to the income of a government, this is a broad and general term, including all public moneys which the state collects and receives, from whatever source and in whatever manner.

RHANDIR

judgment, by lapse of time, or change by dentil, etc., of the parties entitled or liable to execution, the party alleging himself to be entitled to execution might sue out a writ

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