Ger. Right; justice; equity; the whole body of law; unwritten law; law; also a right
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In the practice of the courts, a recess is a short interval or period of time during which the court suspends business, but without adjourning. See In re Gannon, 69 Cal. 541, 11 Pac. 240. In legislative prac* tice, a recess is the ‘interval, occurring in consequence of an adjournment, between the sessions of the same continuous legislative body; not tbe interval between the final ad-journment of one body and the convening of another at the next regular session. See Tip-ton v. Parker, 71 Ark. 193, 74 S. W. 298. ■
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The act of ceding back; the restoration of the title and dominion of a territory, by the government which now holds it, to the government from which it was obtained by cession or otherwise. 2 white, Recop. 516
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In old Engllsh law. Fresh suit; fresh pursuit Pursuit of a thief immediately after the discovery of the robbery. 1 Bl. Comm. 297
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Lat in the civil law. The name sometimes given to an arbitrator, because he had been received or chosen to set-tie the differences between the parties. Dig. 4, 8; Cod. 2, 56
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VER. A receiver is an indifler-ent person between the parties appointed by the court to collect and receive the rents, issues, and profits of land, or the produce ot persoual estate, or other things which it does not Beem reasonable to the court that either party should do; or where a party is lncom-petent to do so, as iu the case of an infant The remedy of the appointment of a receiver is one of the very oldest in the court of chan-cery, and is founded on the inadequacy of the remedy to be obtained in the court of ordinary jurisdiction. Bisp. Eq. | 576. See Hay ▼. McDaniel, 26 Ind. App. 683, 60 N. B. 729; Hale v. Hardon, 95 Fed. 773, 37 O. O
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The short name usually given to the offense of
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PT. A receipt is the written ac-knowledgment of the receipt of money, or a thing of value, without containing any affirmative obligation upon either party to It; a mere admission of a fact, in writing. Krutz v. Craig, 53 Ind. 574
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OR. A name given in some of the states to a person who receives from the sheriff goods which the latter has seized under process of garnishment, on giving to the sheriff a bond conditioned to have the property forthcoming when demanded or when execution issues. Story, Bailm. § 124
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A retaking, or taking back. A species of remedy by the mere act of the party injured, (otherwise termed “re-prisal,”) which happens wben any one has deprived another of his property in goods or chattels personal, or wrongfully detains one’s wife, child, or servant. In this case, the owner of the goods, and the husband, parent, or master may lawfully clalm and retake them, wherever he happens to find them, so it be not In a riotous manner, or attended with a breach of tbe peace. 3 Inst 134; 3 Rl. Comm. 4; 3 Stepb. Comm. 358; Prigg v. Pennsylvania, 16 Pet. 612, 10 L. Ed. 1060
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The taking from an en-emy, by a friendly force, a vessel previously taken for prize by such enemy
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In International law. To summon a diplomatic minister back , to his home court, at the same time depriving him of his office and functions
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To revoke, cancel, vacate, or reverse a judgment for matters of fact; when it is annulled by rea-son of errors of law, it is said to be “re-versed.”
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In pleadlng. A defend* ant’s answer of fact to a plalntlfTs surre-jolnder; the third pleadlng in the series op
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The introduction of rebut-ting evidence; the stage of a trial at which such evidence may be introduced; also the rebutting evidence ltself. Lux v. Haggin, 60 Cal. 255, 10 Pac. 674
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In pleading and evidence. To rehut is to defeat or take away the effect of something. Thus, when a plaintiff in an action produces evidence which raises a pre-sumption of the defendant’s liability, and the defendant adduces evidence which shows that the presumption is ill-founded, he is said to “rebut it” Sweet
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In Eng-lish law. A gathering of twelve persons or more, intending, going about, or practicing unlawfully and of their own authority to change any laws of the realm; or to destroy the inclosure of any park or ground inclosed, hanks of fish-ponds, pools, conduits, eic., to the intent the same shall remain void; or that they shall have way in any of the said grounds; or to destroy the deer in any park, fish in ponds, coneys in any warren, dove-houses, etc.; or to burn sacks of corn; or to abate rents or prices of victuals, etc. See Cowell
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To repel or bar. The ac-tion of the heir by the warranty of his ancestor is called “to rebut or repel.” 2 Co. Litt. 247
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The name of rebels is given to all subjects who unjustly take up arms against the ruler of the society, [or the law-ful and constitutional government,] whether their view be to deprive him of the supreme authority or to resist his lawful commands in some particular instance, nnd to impose conditions on him. Vatt. Law Nat bk. 3, t 288
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Deliberate, organized re-sistance, by force and arms, to the laws or operations of the government, committed by a subject See Hubbard v. Hamden Exp. Co., 10 R. I. 247; State v. McDonald, 4 Port. (Ala.) 455; Crashley v. Press Pub. Co., 74 App. Dlv. 118, 77 N. Y. Supp. 711
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A second attach-ment of him who was formerly attached, and dismissed the court without day, by the not coinlng of the justlces, or some such casualty. Reg. orlg. 35
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Discount; reducing the Interest of money in consideration of prompt payment. Also a deduction from a stlpulat-ed premium on a policy of insurance, in pursuance of an antecedent contract. Also a deduction or drawback from a stipulated payment, charge, or rate, (as, a rate for the transportation of freight by a railroad,) not taken ont in advance of payment, but hand-ed back to the payer after he has paid tbe fnll stipulated sum
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