A piece of gold coin current for 10b., in the reign of Henry VI., at which time there were half-rials and quarter-rials or rial-farthings. In the beginning of Queen Eliza-beth’s reign, golden rials were coined at 15s. a piece; and in the time of James I. there were rose-rials of gold at 30s. and spur-rials at 15s. Lown. Essay Coins, 38
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A part in the division of wales before the Conquest; every township
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The endeavor of the crew of a vessel, or any one or more of them, to overthrow the legitlmate authority of her
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A recompense or premium offered by government or an indlvldual In return for speclal or extraordinary services to be performed, or for special attainments or achievements, or for some act resulting to the benefit of the public; as, a reward for useful inventions, .for the discovery and apprehension of criminals, for the restora-tion of lost property. See Kinn v. First Nat Bank, 118 wis. 537, 95 N. W. 969, 99 Am. St Rep. 1012; Campbell v. Mercer, 108 Ga. 103, 33 S. E. 871
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Lat. It is recalled. This is the term, in English practice, appropriate to signify that a judgment is annulled or set aside for error in fact; if for error lu (aw, it is then said to be reversed
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To call back; to recall; to annul an act by calling or taking it back
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The recall of some pow-er, authority, or thing granted, or a de-atroying or making void of some deed that had existence until the act of revocation tnade it void. It may be either general, of all acts and things done before; or special, to revoke a particular thlng. 5 Coke, 90. See wilmington City Ry. Co. v. wilmington & B. S. Ry. Co., 8 Del. Ch. 468, 46 Atl. 12
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In Ehglish pWK* tice. Where it became-necessary' to revive «
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To renew, revivify; to, mate one’s seif liable for a debt barred _ by tbe statute of limitations by acknowledging it? or for a matrimonial offense, once condoned, by ,committing another. See Lindsey,v. ^-'y-man, 37. Iowa, 207. f . f j
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ILL OF. tn equity, prnc-1 tice. A bill filed for the purpose of reviving qjc calling into operation the proceedings in .n shit, when, from some circumstance, (as the death of the plnlntiff,) the suit hud abated. .
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In Eng-1 lish law. Barristers appointed to revise the* list of voters for county and borough mem' hers of parliament, and who hold courts for that purpose throughout the county. St* 6’ Vlct c. 18. >' • ; ’
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AL.. The process of renewing the. operatlve force of a judgment which has re-' mained dormant or unexecuted for so long', a time that executlon cannot be issued upont it wlthodt a^w process to reanimate it See* Brier v. Traders’ Nat. Bank, 24 wash. 695,J 64 Pac. 831; Havens v. Sea Shore Land Co.w 67 N„ J* Eq. 142, 41 Atl. 755
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A body of stat-utes. which have been revised; collected, arranged in order, and re-enacted as. a whoiey Thls is the legal title of the collections of compiled laws of several of the states, aad also of the United States., Such a yolunje ig, usually cited as “Rev. Stat,” “Rev, SU”
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In Englis^’ law. Two officers elected by the burgesses of, non-parliamentary municipal boroughs fof the purpose of assisting the mayor in jfej* rising the parish burgess lls|s. .wharton
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A reconsideration; second; view or examination; revision; consideration for purposes of correction. Used especially of the examination of a canse hy an appel-late court, and of a second investigation of a proposed public road by a Jury of viewers. See weehawken wharf Co. v. Knickerbocker Coal Co., 25 Misc. Rep. 300, 54 N. Y. Supp 566 ; State v. Main, 69 Conn. 123, 37 Atl. 80, 36 L. R. A. 623, 61 Am. St. Rep. 30
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■ To review, re-examine for> correction; to go over a thing for the purpose) of. amending, correcting, rearranging, or otherwise improving it ; as, to revise statutes^ or a judgment Casey v. Harned, 5 Iowav 12; Vinsant v. Knox, 27 Ark. 272; Falconer' V. Robinson, 46 Ala. 34$. < i
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To vest again. A selsln is said to revest, where it is acqulred a second time hy the party out of whom it has been divested. 1 Rop. Husb. & wife, 353
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In old European law. To return or resign an investiture, seisin, or, possession that has been received; to rein-vest; to re-enfeoff. Spelman
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To revert is to return. Thus, when the owner of an estate in land has granted a smaller estate to another pereon, on the determination of the latter estate, the land is said to “revert" to the grantor. Sweet
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Reversion. A possibility of reverter is that species of reversionary interest whlch exists when the grant is so llmited that it may possibly terminate. 1 washb. Real Prop. 63. See Fobmedon in tub Revebtkb
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A person who is entitled to an estate in reversion. By an ex-tension of its meaning, one who is entitled to any future estate or any property in expectancy
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