A clause in a deed or other instrument of conveyance by which the
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The receiving or harboring an outlawed person. Cowell
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In English law. The second sealing of a writ by a master so as to continue it, or to cure it of an irregu-larity
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O. Reservlng. In old cou-veyancing. An apt word of reservlng a rent. Co. Litt. 47a
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In old English law. A rescuer; one who commits a rescous. Cro. Jac. 419; Oowell
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L. Fr. Rescelt; receipt; the receiving or harboring a felon, after the com-mlsteion of a crime. Britt c. 23
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Lat in the civil law. A species of imperial constitution, in the form of an answer to some application or petition; a rescript Calvin
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The act of forcibly and inten-tionally. dellverlng a person from lawful arrest or imprisonment, and setting hlm at llberty. 4 Bl. Comm. 131; Code Ga. $ 4478; Robinson v. State, 82 Ga. 535, 9 S. E. 528
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In canon law. A term ln-cludlng any form of apostolical letter emanating from the pope. The answer of the pope in wrltlng. Dlct. Drolt Can
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In French law. A re-scriptlon is a letter by which one requests some one to pay a certain sum of money, or to account for him to a thlrd person for lt. Poth. Cont de Change, no. 225
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In Scotch law. One to rescind or annul a deed or contract
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Rescue. The taking back by force goods which had been taken under a distress, or the violently taking away a man who is nnder arrest, and setting him at liberty, or otherwise procuring his escape, are both so denominated. This was also the name of a wrlt whlch lay in cases of rescue. Co. Litt. 160; 3 BL Comm. 146; Fitzh. Nat Brev. 100; 6 Mees. & W. 564
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Lat in the civU law. An annulling; avoiding, or making void; abro-gation; rescission. Cod. 4, 44
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Rescission, or the act of rescinding, is where a contract is canceled, annulled, or abrogated hy the parties, or one of them
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In old English practice. An admission or receiving a third person to plead hls right in a cause formerly com
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To abrogate, annul, avold, or cancel a contract; particularly, nullifying a contract by the act of a party. See Powell v. Linde Co., 29 Misc. Rep. '419, 60 N. Y. Supp. 1044; Hurst v. Trow Printing Co., 2 Misc. Rep. 861, 22 N. Y. Supp. 871
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A demand in writing, or formal request or requirement Bain ▼. State, 61 Ala. 79; Atwood v. Charlton, 21 R. I. 568, 45 AtL 580
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In Scotch law. Inferior fiefs; portlons of a fief or feud granted out to lnferior tenants. 2 Bl. Comm. 57
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Accepted by general, vulgar, or publlc opinion. Thus, land may be reputed part of a manor, though uot really so, and a certain dlstrict may be reputed a parish or a manor, or be a parish or a manor in reputation, although it is in reality no parish or manor at all. Brown
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An asking or petition; the expression of a desire to some person for something to be granted or done; particu-iarly for the payment of a debt or performance of a contract
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NANT. That which is contrary to what is stated before, or insensible. A repugnant condition is void
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A person’s credit, honor, character, good name. Injuries to one’s rep-utation, which is a personal right, are de-famatory and malicious words, libels, and malicious Indictments or prosecutions
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Lat in Roman law. A breaking off of the contract of espousals, or of a marriage intended to be solemnized. Sometimes translated “divorce;” but this was not the proper sense. Dig. 50, 16, 19L
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An Inconsistency, op-position, or contrariety between two or more clauses of the same deed or contract, or between two or more material allegations of the same pleading. See Lehman v. U. S., 127 Fed. 45, 61 C. C. A. 577; Swan v. U. S„ 8 wyo. 151, 9 Pac. 931
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In English law. Deductions REPUDIATE. To pnt away, reject, dis-and duties which are yearly paid out of a claim, or renounce a right, duty, obligation, manor and lands, as rent-charge, rent seck, or privilege
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