Category: R

To go back. “It resorted to the Hue of the mother.” Hale, Com. Law, c. 11. RESORT 1028 RESPONDENTIA

Answering; constituting or comprising a complete answer. A “re sponsive allegation” is one which directly answers the allegation it is intended to meet.

Where copyhold land has been mortgaged by surrender, and the mortgagee has been admitted, then, on the mortgage debt being paid off, the mortgagor is entitled to have the land reconveyed to

To take back. To retract an offer is to withdraw it before acceptance, which the offerer may always do.

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,

A custom among commission merchants and brokers (not unlike the clearing-house system) by which they exchange contracts for sale against contracts for purchase, or reciprocally cancel such contracts. adjust differences of price

Lat. Duly and formally; legally; properly; technically.

A commission from one judge to another requesting him to examine a witness. See LETTER.

A list of persons who are to perform certain legal duties when called upon In their turn. In military affairs it is a table or plan by which the duty of officers

Directions printed in books of law and in prayer-books, so termed because they were originally distinguished by red ink.

Lands in Scotland where the ridges of a field belong alternatively to different proprietors. Anciently this kind of possession was advantageous in giving a united interest to tenants to resist inroads. By

A political party. The term arose In England, in 1818, when the popular leaders, Hunt Cartwright, and others, sought to obtain a radical reform In the representative system of parliament. Bol- ingbroke

In old English law. A rav- isher. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 52,

Lat By reason of the person concerned; from the character of the person.

In foreign law. That quality of laws which concerns property or things, (quce ad rem spcctant.) Story, Confi. Laws,

In pleading. A defendant’s answer of fact to a plaintiff’s surrejoinder ; the third pleading in the series on REBUTTING EVIDENCE 995

The formal statement or setting forth of some matter of fact, in any deed or writing, in order to explain the reasons upon which the transaction is founded. The recitals are situated