日期：2008-03-21 RECOMPENSE OP RECOVERY IN VALUE . This phrase, is applied to the matter recovered in a common recovery, after the vouchee has disappeared, and judgment is given for the demandant. 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 2093. RECONCILIATION , contracts. The act of bringin... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-21 RECOGNIZEE . He for whose use a recognizance has been taken. RECOGNISOR , contracts. He who enters into a recognizance. RECOLEMENT , French law. The reading and reexamination by a witness of a de-position, and his persistance in the saine, or his ma... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-21 RECLAIM . To demand again, to insist upon a right; as, when a defendant for a consideration received from the plaintiff, has covenanted to do an act, and fails to do it, the plaintiff may bring covenant for the breach, or assumpsit to reclaim the co... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-21 RECITAL , contracts, pleading. The repetition of some former writing, or the statement of something which has been done. Touchst. 76. 2. Recitals are used to explain those matters of fact which are necessary to make the transaction intelligible. 2 B... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-21 RECESSION . A re-grant: the act of returning the title of a country to a go- vernment which formerly held it, by one which has it at the time; as the recession of Louisiana, which took place by the treaty between France and Spain, of October 1, 1800... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-21 RECEIPTOR . In Massachusetts this name is given to the person who, on a trustee process being issued and goods attached, becomes surety to the sheriff to have them forthcoming on demand, or in time to respond the judgment, when the execution shall b... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-21 RECEIPT , contracts. A receipt is an acknowledgment in writing that the party giving the same has received from the person therein named, the money or other thing therein specified. 2. Although expressed to be in full of all demands, it is only prim... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-21 TO RECALL , international law. To deprive a minister of his functions; to supersede him. TO RECALL A JUDGMENT . To reverse a judgment on a matter, of fact; the judgment is then said to be recalled or revoked, and when it is reversed for an error of... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-21 REBELLION, COMMISSION OF . A commission of rebellion is the name of a writ issuing out of chancery to compel the defendant to appear. Vide Commission of Rebellion. REBOUTER . To repel or bar. The action of the heir by the warranty of his ancestor, i... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-21 REASONABLE ACT . This term signifies such an act as the law requires. When an act is unnecessary, a party will not be required to perform it as a reasonable act. 9 Price's Rep. 43; Yelv. 44; Platt. on Cov. 342, 157. REASONABLE TIME . The English law... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-21 REALITY OF LAWS . Those laws which govern property, whether real or personal, or things; the term is used in persona opposition to personality of laws. (q. v.) Story, Confl. of L. 23. REALM . A kingdom; a country. 1 Taunt. 270; 4 Campb. 289; Rose, R... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-21 REAL . A term which is applied to land in its most enlarged signification. Real security, therefore, means the security of mortgages or other incumbrances affecting lands. 2 Atk. 806; S. C. 2 Ves. sen. 547. 2. In the civil law, real has not the same... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-21 RATIHABITION , contracts. Confirmation; approbation of a contract; ratification. Vin. Ab. h. t.; Assent. (q. v.) RATIONALIBUS DIVISIS, WRIT DE . The name of a writ which lies properly when two men have lands in several towns or hamlets, so that the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-21 RATIFICATION , contracts. An agreement to adopt an act performed by another for us. 2. Ratifications are either empress or implied. The former are made in express and direct terms of assent; the latter are such as the law presumes from the acts of t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-21 RAPE , division of a country. In the English law, this is a district similar to that of a hundred; but oftentimes containing in it more hundreds than one. RAPINE , crim. law. This is almost indistinguishable from robbery. (q. v.) It is the felonious... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-21 RANGE . This word is used in the land laws of the United States to designate the order of the location of such lands, and in patents from the United States to individuals they are described as being within a certain range. RANK . The order or place... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-21 RACK , punishments. An engine with which to torture a supposed criminal, in order to extort a confession of his supposed crime, and the names of his supposed accomplices. Unknown in the United States. 2. This instrument, known by the nickname of the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-21 QUOT , Scotch law. The twentieth part of the movables, computed without computation of debts, was so called. 2. Formerly the bishop was entitled, in all confirmations, to the quot of the testament. Ersk. Prin. B. 3, t. 9, n. 11. QUOTA . That part wh... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-21 QUOD EI DEFORCEAT , Engl. law. The name of a writ given by Stat. Westmin. 2, 13 Edw. I. c. 4, to the owners of a particular estate, as for life, in dower, by the curtesy, or in fee tail, who are barred of the right of possession by a recovery had ag... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-21 QUOAD HOC . As to this; with respect to this. A term frequently used to signify, as to the thing named, the law is so and so. QUOD COMPUTET . The name of an interlocutory judgment in an action of account render: also the name of a decree in the case... 阅读全文>>