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Search Results for "R" RESPONSIBILITY The obligation to answer for an act done, and to repair any injury it may have caused. 2. This obligation arises without... more RESTITUTION maritime law. The placing back or restoring articles which have been lost by jettison; this is done when the remainder of the cargo has been saved... more RESTITUTION practice. The return of something to the owner of it, or to the person entitled to it. 2. After property has been taken... more TO RESTORE To return what has been unjustly taken; to place the owner of a thing in the state in which he formerly was. By restitution is understood... more RESTRAINING Narrowing down, making less extensive; as, a restraining statute, by which the common law is narrowed down or made less extensive in its operation. ... more RESTRAINING POWERS A term used in equity. When the donor of a power, who is the owner of the estate, imposes certain restrictions by the terms of the... more RESTRAINT Something which prevents us from doing what we would desire to do. 2. Restraint is lawful and unlawful. It is lawful when its... more RESTRICTIVE INDORSEMENT contracts. One which confines the negotiability of a promissory note or bill of exchange, by using express words to that effect, as by indorsing it "payable... more RESULTING TRUSTS estates. Resulting, implied or constructive trusts, are those which arise in cases where it would be contrary to the principles of equity that be in whom... more RESULTING USE estates. One which having been limited by deed, expires or cannot vest; it then returns back to him who raised it, after such expiration, or during... more RESUMPTION To reassume; to promise again; as, the resumption of payment of specie by the banks is general. It also signifies to take things back; as the... more RETAIL To sell by retail, is to sell by small parcels, and not in the gross. 5 N. S. 279. ... more RETAILER OF MERCHANDISE One who deals in merchandise by selling it in smaller quantities than he buys, generally with a view to profit. ... more TO RETAIN practice. To engage the services of an attorney or counsellor to manage a cause, at which time it is usual to give him a fee, called... more RETAINER The act of withholding what one has in one s own hands by virtue of some right. 2. An executor or administrator is... more RESCRIPT conv. A counterpart. 2. In the canon law, by rescripts are understood apostolical letters, which emanate from the pope, under whatever form they... more RESCRIPTION French law. A rescription is a letter by which the maker requests some one to pay a certain sum of money, or to account for... more RESCRIPTS civ. law. The answers of the prince at the request of the parties respecting some matter in dispute between them, or to magistrates in relation to... more RESCUE crim. law. A forcible setting at liberty against law of a person duly arrested. Co. Litt. 160; 1 Chitty s Cr, Law, *62; 1 Russ.... more RESPONDERE NON DEBET The prayer of a plea where the defendant insists that he ought not to answer, as when he claims a privilege; for example, as being a... more |
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