日期：2008-03-22 REVERSIONER , estates. One entitled to a reversion. 2. Although not in actual possession, the reversioner having a vested interest in the reversion, is entitled to his action for an injury done to the inheritance. 4 Burr. 2141. The reversioner is en... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-22 REVENUE . The income of the government arising from taxation, duties, and the like; and, according to some correct lawyers, under the idea of revenue is also included the proceeds of the sale of stocks, lands, and other property owned by the governm... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-22 RETURN DAY . A day appointed by law when all writs are to be returned which have issued since the preceding return day. The sheriff is in general not required to return his writ until the return day. After that period he may be ruled to make a retur... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-22 RETRIBUTION . 1. That which is given to another to recompense him for what has been received from him; as a rent for the hire of a house. 2. A salary paid to a person for his services. 3. The distribution of rewards and punishments. RETROCESSION , c... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-22 RETORNO HABENDO . The name of a writ issued to compel a party to return property which has been adjudged to the other in an action of replevin. Vide Writ pro retorno habendo. RETORSION , war. The name of the act employed by a government to impose th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-22 RETAINER , practice. The act of a client, by which he engages an attorney or counsellor to manage a cause, either by prosecuting it, when he is plaintiff, or defending it, when he is defendant. 2. The effect of a retainer to prosecute or defend a su... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-22 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 the re-taining fee. The act by which the attorney is authorized to act in the case is called a retainer.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-22 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 to A,B only. 1 Wash. C. C. 512; 2 Murph. 138; 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 1138... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-22 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 at the general charge of the owners of the cargo; but when the remainder of the goods ar... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-22 RESPONSA PRUDENTUM , civil law. Opinions given by Roman lawyers. Before the time of Augustus, every lawyer was authorized de jure, to answer questions put to him, and all such answers, response prudentum had equal authority, which had not the force... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-22 RESPITE , crim. law. A suspension of a sentence, which is to be executed at a future time. It differs from a pardon, which is in abolition of the crime. See Abolition; Pardon. RESPONDEAT OUSTER . The name of a judgment when an issue in law, arising... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-22 RESORT . The authority or jurisdiction of a court. The supreme court of the United States is a court of the last resort. RESPECTABLE WITNESS . One who is competent to testify in a court of justice. To pass lands in Alabama, a will must be attested b... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-22 RESISTANCE . The opposition of force to force. 2. Resistance is either lawful or unlawful. 1. It is lawful to resist one who is in the act of committing a felony or other crime, or who maliciously endeavors to commit such felony or crime. See self d... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-22 RESIDENT , international law. A minister, according to diplomatic language, of a third order, less in dignity than an ambassador, or an envoy. This term formerly related only to the continuance of the minister's stay, but now it is confined to minis... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-22 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 of the nature of a recapture; it occurs when the weaker party before he is overpowered, obtains relief from the a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-22 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 a person arrested by due process of law. Co. Litt. 160. 2. In civil cases when a defendan... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-22 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 in to res mancipi and res nec mancipi, was one of ancient origin, and it continued to... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-22 RES INTEGRA . An entire thing; an entirely new or untouched matter. This term is applied to those points of law which have not been decided, which are untouched by dictum or decision. 3 Meriv. R. 269; 1 Burge on the Confl. of Laws, 241. RES INTER AL... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-22 REQUEST , pleading. The statement in the plaintiff's declaration that a demand or request has been made by the plaintiff from the defendant, to do some act which he was bound to perform, and for which the action is brought. 2. A request is general o... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-22 REPUGNANT . That which is contrary to something else; a repugnant condition is one contrary to the contract itself; as, if I grant you a house and lot in fee, upon condition that you shall not aliens, the condition is repugnant and void. Bac. Ab. Co... 阅读全文>>