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Search Results for "R" RESOLUTION A solemn judgment or decision of a court. This word is frequently used in this sense, in Coke and some of the more ancient reporters. It... more RESOLUTION Civil law. The act by which a contract which existed and was good, is rendered null. 2. Resolution differs essentially from rescission. The... more RESOLUTORY CONDITION On which has for its object, when accomplished, the revocation of the principal obligation; for example, I will sell you my crop of cotton, if my... more RESORT The authority or jurisdiction of a court. The supreme court of the United States is a court of the last resort. ... more RESCUSSOR The party making a rescue, is sometimes so called, but more properly he is a rescuer. ... more RESCUE mar. war. The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by the enemy. There is still another kind of rescue which partake s... more RESCOUS crim. law, torts. This word is used synonymously with rescue, (q. v.) and denotes the illegal taking away and setting at liberty a distress taken, or... more RESCEIT The act of receiving or admitting a third person to plead his right in a cause commenced by two; as when an action is brought against... more RESCEIT or RECEIT The admission or receiving of a third person to plead his right in a cause formerly commenced between two other persons; as, when an action is... more RESCISSION OF A CONTRACT The destruction or annulling of a contract. 2. The right to rescind a contract seems to suppose not that the contract has existed only... more RES PERIT DOMINO The thing is lost to the owner. This phrase is used to express that when a thing is lost or destroyed, it is lost to... more RES UNIVERSATIS Those things which belong to cities or municipal corporations are so called; they belong so far to the public that they cannot be appropriated to private... more RESALE A second sale made of an article; as, for example, if A sell a horse to B, and the latter not having paid, for him,... more RES MANCIPI Rom. civ. law. Those things which might be sold and alienated, or the property of them transferred from one person to another. The division of things... more RES NOVA Something new; something not before decided. ... more RES NULLIUS A thing which has no owner. A thing which has been abandoned by its owner is as much res nullius as if it had never... more TO REPUDIATE To repudiate a right is to express in a sufficient manner, a determination not to accept it, when it is offered. 2. He... more REPUDIATION In the civil law this term is used to signify the putting away of a wife or a woman betrothed. 2. Properly divorce... more REPUGNANCY contracts. That which in a contract, is inconsistent with something already contracted for; as, for example, where a man by deed grants twenty acres of land,... more REPUGNANCY pleading. Where the material facts stated in a declaration or other pleading, are inconsistent one with another for example, where in an action of trespass, the... more |