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Search Results for "R" RELICT A widow; as A B, relict of C D. ... more RELICTA VFRIFICATIONE When a judgment is confessed by cognovit actionem after plea pleaded, and then the plea is withdrawn, it is called a confession or cognovit actionem relicta... more RELICTION An increase of the land by the sudden retreat of the sea or a river. 2. Relicted lands arising from the sea and... more RELIEF Engl. law. A relief was an incident to every feudal tenure, by way of fine or composition with the lord for taking up the estate which... more RELIEF practice. That assistance which a court of chancery will lend to a party to annul a contract tinctured with fraud, or where there has been a... more RELIGION Real piety in practice, consisting in the performance of all known duties to God and our fellow men. 2. There are many actions... more RELEASE estates. The "conveyance of a man s interest or right, which he hath unto a thing, to another that hath the possession thereof, or some estate... more RELIGIOUS TEST The constitution of the United States, art. 6, s. 3, de-clares that "no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office, or... more RELINQUISHMENT practice. A forsaking, abandoning, or giving over a right; for example, a plaintiff may relinquish a bad count in a declaration, and proceed on the good:... more RELOCATION Scotch law, contracts. To let again to renew a lease, is called a relocation. 2. When a tenant holds over after the expiration... more RELEASEE A person to whom a release is made. ... more RELEASOR He who makes a release. ... more RELEGATION civil law. Among the Romans relegation was a banishment to a certain place, and consequently was an interdiction of all places except the one designated. ... more RELEVANCY By this term is understood the evidence which is applicable to the issue joined; it is relevant when it is applicable to the issue, and ought... more RELATIVE One connected with another by blood or affinity; a relation, a kinsman or kinswoman. In an adjective sense, having relation or connexion with some other person... more RELATIVE POWERS Those which relate to land, so called to distinguish them from those which are collateral to it. 2. These powers are appendant, as... more RELATIVE RIGHTS Those to which a person is entitled in consequence of his relation with others such as the rights of a hushand in relation to his wife;... more RELEASE Releases are of two kinds. 1. Such as give up, discharge, or abandon a right of action. 2. Such as convey a man s interest... more RELEASE contracts. A release is the giving or discharging of a right of action which a man has or may claim against another, or that which... more RELATOR A rehearser or teller; one who, by leave of court, brings an information in the nature of a quo warranto. 2. At common... more |