Category: R

In feudal law. A method of converting allodial land into feudal property. The owner of the allod surrendered it to the king or a lord, doing homage, and received it back as

A written account of some act, transaction, or instrument, drawn up, under authority of law, by a proper officer, and designed to remain as a memorial or permanent evidence of the matters

Rectification of instrument. In English law. To rectify is to correct or define something which is erroneous or doubtful. Thus, where the parties to an agreement have determined to embody its terms

Lat. In old English law. Recovery; restitution by the sentence of a judge of a thing that has been wrongfully taken or detained. Co. Litt 154a. Recuperatio, i. e., ad rem, per

A regranting of land demised or leased.

In Scotch law. An action brought for the purpose of rescinding, annulling, or cancelling some bond, contract or other instrument in writing. 1 Forb. Inst pt. 4, pp. 158, 150. In French

A term sometimes employed to describe verbiage inserted in a pleading or indictment, over and above what is necessary to be set forth ; or an objection to a plea or indictment

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

Lat The queen.

is used principally in the phrase “free entry, egress, and regress” but It is also used to signify the re-entry of a person who has been disseised of land. Co. Litt. 3186.

In pleading. To answer a plaintiff’s replication in an action at law, by some matter of fact.

In old English law. Banishment for a time only. Co. Litt. 133.

To remand a prisoner, after a preliminary or partial hearing before a court or magistrate, is to scud him back to custody, to be kept until the hearing is resumed or the

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

In practice. To give up; to yield; to return; to surrender. Also to pay or perform; used of reuts, services, and the like.

The redress of an injury ; amends for a wrong inflicted.

The plaintiff in an action of replevin.

In criminal law. The withdrawing of a sentence of death for an in- terval of time, whereby the execution is suspended. 4 Bl. Comm. 394. And see Butler v. State, 97 Ind.

An asking or petition; the expression of a desire to some person for something to be granted or done; particularly for the payment of a debt or performance of a contract. The

In English law. The second sealing of a writ by a master so as to continue it, or to cure it of an irregularity.