REFEREE
In practice. A person to whom a cause pending in a court is referred by the court, to take testimony, hear the parties. and report thereon to the court. See REFER. And
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In practice. A person to whom a cause pending in a court is referred by the court, to take testimony, hear the parties. and report thereon to the court. See REFER. And
An abbreviation of “Reg- istrarii Liber,” the register’s book in chancery, containing all decrees.
Lat The queen.
The act of regulating; a rule or order prescribed for management or government; a regulating principle; a precept. See Curry v. Marvin, 2 Fla. 415; Ames v. Union Pac. Ry. Co. (C.
In old Scotch practice. Letters passing the signet by which a debtor was relaxed [released] from the horn; that is, from personal diligence. Bell.
32 N. E. 300; Hudson v. Wadsworth, 8 Conn. 359.
A person who makes a remittance to another.
At common law. A certain profit issuing yearly out of lands and tenements corporeal; a species of incorporeal hereditament. 2 Bl. Comm. 41. A compensation or return yielded periodically, to a certain
To plead anew; to file new pleadings.
A storehouse or place wherein things are kept; a warehouse. Cro. Car. 555.
An inconsistency, opposition, or contrariety between two or more clauses of the same deed or contract, or between two or more material allegations of the same pleading. See Lehman v. U. S.,
The act of forcibly and intentionally delivering a person from lawful arrest or imprisonment, and setting him at liberty. 4 Bl. Comm. 131; Code Ga.
To oppose. This word properly describes an opposition by direct action and quasi forcible means. State v. Welch, 37 Wis. 196.
cargo, or some part thereof. Is hypothecated as security for a loan, the repayment of which is dependent on maritime risks. Civ. Code Cal.
An order in the nature of an injunction. See ORDER.
A writ that lies for tlie distrainor of goods (when, on replevin brought, he has proved his distress to be a lawful one) against him who was so dis- trained, to have
1 N. H. 213, 8 Am. Dee. 52; Bell v. Perkins, Peck (Tenn.) 206, 14 Am. Dec. 745; Evans v. Denver, 20 Colo. 193, 57 Pac. 690.
The annulling or making void a judgment on account of some error or (Irregularity. Usually spoken of the action of an appellate court. In international law. A declaration by which a sovereign
Susceptible of being revoked.
In English law. One of the six clerks in chancery who, in liis turn for one year, kept the controluient books of all grants that passed the great seal. The six clerks