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Search Results for "R" REPAIRS That work which is done to an estate to keep it in good order. 2. What a party is bound to do, when... more REPARATION The redress of an injury; amends for a tort inflicted. Vide Remedy; Redress. ... more REPARTIONE, FACIENDA, WRIT DE The name of an ancient writ which lies by one or more joint tenants against the other joint tenants, or by a person owning a house... more REPEAL legislation. The abrogation or destruction of a law by a legislative act. 2. A repeal is express; as when it is literally declared... more REPERTORY This word is nearly synonymous with inventory, and is so called because its contents are arranged in such order as to be easily found. Clef des... more REPETITION construction of wills. A repetition takes place when the same testator, by the same testamentary instrument, gives to the same legatee legacies of equal amount and... more REPETITION civil law. The act by which a person demands and seeks to recover what he has paid by mistake, or delivered on a condition which has... more REPETITION Scotch law. The act of reading over a witness deposition, in order that he may adhere to it, or correct it at his choice. The same... more REPLEADER practice. When an immaterial issue has been formed, the court will order the parties to plead de novo, for the purpose of obtaining a better issue... more REPLEGIARE To redeem a thing detained or taken by another, by putting in legal sureties. See Replevin. ... more REPLEVIN remedies. The name of an action for the recovery of goods and chattels. 2. It will be proper to consider, 1. For what... more REMAINDER estates. The remnant of an estate in lands or tenements expectant on a particular estate, created together with the same, at one time. Co. Litt. 143... more REMAINDER-MAN One who is entitled to the remainder of the estate after a particular estate carved out of it has expired. ... more TO REMAND To send back or recommit. When a prisoner is brought before a judge on a habeas corpus, for the purpose of obtaining his liberty, the judge... more REMANDING A CAUSE practice. The sending it back to the same court out ofwhich it came for the purpose of having some action on it there. March, R. 100.... more REMANENT PRO DEFECTU EMPTORUM practice. The return made by the sheriff to a writ of execution when he has not been able to sell the property seized, that the same... more REMANET practice. The causes which are entered for trial, and which cannot be tried during tho term, are remanets. Lee s Dict. Trial, vii.; 1 Sell. Pr.... more REMEDIAL That which affords a remedy; as, a remedial statute, or one which is made to supply some defects or abridge some superfluities of the common law.... more RELEVANT EVIDENCE That which is applicable to the issue and which ought to be received; the phrase is used in opposition to irrelevant evidence, which is that which... more REMEDY The means employed to enforce a right or redress an injury. 2. The importance of selecting a proper remedy is made strikingly evident by... more |