Lat Right or justice; legal dues; tribute or payment Cowell
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In old English law. The kiug’s right to prisage, or taking of one butt or pipe of wine before and another behind the mast, as a custom for every ship laden with wines. Cowell
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Reotifloation of instrument. In English law. To rectify is to correct or define something which is erroneous or doubtful. Thus, where the par-ties to an agreement have determined to em-body Its terms in the appropriate and con-elusive form, but the instrument meant to efTect this purpose (e. g., a conveyance, set-tlement, etc.) is, by mutual mistake, so framed as not to express the real intention of the parties, an action may be brought in the chancery division of the high court to have it rectified. Sweet
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A charge made by an accused person against the accuser; in particular a counter-charge of adultery or cruelty made by one charged with the same offense in a suit for divorce, against the per-son who has charged him or her. wharton
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In its most extensive sense, a recovery is the restoration or vindication of a right existing in a person, by the formal judgment or decree of a competent court, at his instance and suit, or the obtaining, by such judgment, of some right or property which has been taken or withheld from him. This is also called a "true'’ recovery, to dis
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Coward or craven. The word pronounced by a combatant in the trial by battel, when he acknowledged himself beaten. 3 Bl. Comm. 340
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In old conveyancing. The party who suffered a common recovery
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The demandant in a common recovery, after judgment has been given in his favor
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The phrase "without recourse” is used in the form of muking a qual-ified or restrictive indorsement of n bill or note. By these words the indorser signifies that, while he transfers his proiierty In the Instrument, he does not assume the responsibility of an indorser. See Lyons v. Fitzpatrick, 52 La. Ann. 697, 27 South. 111
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Fr. In French law. Recapture. Emerig. TraitG des Assur. c. 12, 8 23
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or RECOUPE. To deduct, defalk, discount, set off, or keep back; to withhold part of a demand
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In practice. Defalca-tion or discount from a demand. A keepiug back something which is due, because there is an equitable reuson to withhold it. Tomlins
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Statutes enacted in the several states relative to the oflicial recording of deeds, mortgages, bills of sale, chattel mortgages, etc., aud the effect of such records as notice to creditors, purchasers, incumbrancers, aud others Interested
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In English practice. A writ by which a suit or plaint in replevin may be removed from a county court to one of the courts of west-minster Hall. 3 Bl. Comm. 149; 3 Steph. PI 522, 666. So termed from the emphatic words of the old writ, by which the sheriff was commanded to cause the plaint to be recorded, and to have the record before the «ur perior court. Reg. Orig. 5b.
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In old English practice. An entry made upon a record, in order te
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A collection of Spanish colonial law, promulgated A. D. 1680. See Schm. Clvil Law, Introd. 94
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In Amerlcan practlce. A writ to bring up judgments of justices of the peace. Holcombe v. Loudermilk, 48 N
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In the civil law. An action by a defendant against a plaintiff in a former action; a cross-bill or litigation
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That Imaginary pro-cess by which a prior constructive conversion is annulled, and the converted property restored in contemplation of law to its original state
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The name commonly given to the process of reorganizing
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Lat in the canon and dvil law. To make a cross-demand up-on the actor, or plaintiff. 4 Reeve, Eng. Law, 14, and note, (r
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The renewal of amicable relations between two persons who had been at enmity or variance; usually implying forgiveness of injuries on one or both sides. It is sometimes used iu the law of divorce as a term synonymous or analogous to "condonation
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In the civil law. A repewing of a former lease; relocation. Dig. 19, 2, 13, 11; Code Nap. arts. 1737-1740
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