Rejection; disclaimer; renunciation; the rejection or refusal of an offered or available right or privilege, or of a duty or relation. See Iowa State Sav. Bank v. Black, 91 Iowa, 490, 59 N. W. 283; Daley v. Saving Ass’n, 178 Mass. 13, 59 N. E. 452
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The re-execution or re-establishment by a testator of a wlll which he had once revoked
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In old records. Money paid by servile tenants for exemption from the customary duty of reaping tor the lord. CowelL
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A commonwealth; a form of government which derives all Its powers dlrectly or indirectly from the general body of citizens, and in which the executive power is lodged in officers chosen by and represent-ing the people, and holding office for a limited period, or at most during good behavior or at the pleasure of the people, and in which the legislative power may be (and in modern republics is) intrusted to a representative assembly. See Federalist, No. 39; Re-public of Mexico v. De Arangoiz, 5 Duer (N. Y.) 636; State v. Harris, 2 Bailey (S. C.) 599
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In ecclesiastical law. The interposition of objections or exceptions; as, to the competency of witnesses, to the due execution of Instruments offered in evidence and the like
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A publlc and formal censure or severe reproof, administered to a person In fault by hls superior officer or by a body to which he belongs. Thus, a member of a legislative body may be reprimanded by the presiding officer, in pursuance of a vote of censure, for improper conduct in the house. So a military ofiicer, In some cases, is pun-lshed by a reprimand administered by hls commanding officer, or by the secretary of war
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The forcibly taking a thing by one nation which belonged to another, in return or satisfaction for an injury committed by the latter on the former. Vat« tel, b. 2, c. 18, 8. 342
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Representation le the act of one person representing or stand* ing in the place of another; and he who so represents or stands in the place of another is termed his “representative.” Thus, an heir is the representative of the ancestor, aud an executor is the representative of the testator, the heir standing in the place of his deceased ancestor with respect to his realty, the executor standing in the place of his de* ceased testator with respect to hls personal-ty; and hence the heir is frequently denom-lnated the “real" representative, and the executor the “personal” representative. Brown; 2 Steph. Comm. 243. And see Lee v. Dill, 39 Barb. (N. ¥.) 520; Staples ▼. Lewis, 71 Conn. 288, 41 Atl. 815; McCrary ▼. McCrary, 12 Abb. Prac. (N. ¥.) 1
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In criminal law. The with* drawing of a sentence of death for an in-terval of time, whereby the execution is sus-pended. 4 Bl. Comm. 394. And see Butler v. State, 97 Ind. 374; Sterling v. Drake, 29 Ohio SL 460, 23 Am. Rep. 762; In re Buch-anan, 146 N. Y. 264, 40 N. E. 883
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To exhibit; to expose before the eyes. To represent a thing is to produce it publicly. Dig. 10, 4, 2, 3
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A storehouse or place wherein things are kept; a warehouse. Cro. Car. 555
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A person who reports the decisions upon questions of law in the cases adjudged in the several courts of law and equity, wharton
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The name given, par excellence, to Lord Coke's Reports, from 14 Eliz. to 13 Jac. I., which are cited as “Rep
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In Scotch practice. To re place; to restore to a former state or right. 2 Alls. Crim. Pr. 351
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An official or formal statement of facts or proceedings
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In pleading. A reply made by the plaintiff in an action to the defendant’s plea, or in a suit in chancery to the defendant’s answer
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In its general sense, a reply is what the plaintiff, petitioner, or other person who has Instituted a proceeding says in answer to the defendant’s case. Sweet
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Lat. In the civil law and old English pleading. To reply; to an-swer a defendant’s plea
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Lat in the civil law and old Englisb pleading. The plaintiffs answer to the defendant’s exception or plea; corresponding with and giving name to the replication in modern pleading. Inst. 4, 14, pr
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This word, as used in reference to the action of replevin, signifies to redeliver goods which have been distrained, to the original possessor of them, on his pledging or giving security to prosecute an action against the distrainor for the purpose of trying the legality of the distress. It has also been used to signify the balling or liberating a man from prison on his finding bail to answer for his forthcoming at a future time. Brown
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or REPLICANT. A litigant who replies or files or delivers a replication
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