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in Scotland, where a party sues for a debt, and the defendant pleads compensation, i. e., set-off, the plaintiff may allege a compensation on his part; and this is called a “recompensa-

prevent any alteration of It 1 Ld. Rayin. 211. An order or allowance that the verdict returned on the nisi prius roll be recorded.

A writ of right, which was of so high a nature that as other writs in real actions were only to recover the possession of the land, etc., in question, this aimed

Lat In the civil law. Rejection of a witness, on the ground of incompetency. Best, Ev. Introd. 60,

In old English law. Heavy fines. Distinguished from misericor- dia, (which see.)

This is the fault of Introducing superfluous matter into a legal instrument; particularly the insertion in a pleading of matters foreign, extraneous, and irrelevant to that which it is intended to answer.

437; De Voln v. De Voin, 76 Wis. 66, 44 N. W. 839. It is to be observed that “reform” is seldom, if ever, used of the correction of de- fective pleadings,

The temporal rights and privileges of a bishop. Cowell.

istry;” as the register for the probate of wills. A book containing a record of facts as they occur, kept by public authority ; a register of births, marriages, and burials.

According to rule; as distinguished from that which violates the rule or follows no rule. According to rule; as opposed to that which constitutes an exception to the rule or is not

Rejoining voluntarily, or without being required to do so by a rule to rejoin. When a defendant was under terms to rejoin gratis, he had to deliver a rejoinder, without putting the

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.

In old English law. A remainder. Spelman. A perpetuity, or perpetual estate. Glan. lib. 7, c. 1.

Lat In practice. An entry made on record, in cases where a jury has given greater damages than a plaintiff has declared for, remitting the excess. 2 Tidd, Pr. 800.

Fr. A place appointed for meeting. Especially used of places appointed for the assembling of troops, the coming together of the ships of a fleet, or the meeting of vessels and their

takes place when a person wTho has been expatriated regains his nationality.

A litigant who replies or files or delivers a replication.

The forcibly taking a thing by one nation which belonged to another, in return or satisfaction for an injury committed by the latter on the former. Vattel, b. 2, c. 18, s.

In Scotch law. Inferior fiefs; portions of a fief or feud granted out to inferior tenants. 2 Bl. Comm. 57. Rerum ordo oonfunditnr si nnicuique jurisdictio non servetur. 4 Inst. Proem. The

The receiving or harboring an outlawed person. Cowell.