In French law. The release of a debt
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In tbe civil Uw. A release of a debt it is conventional, when it is expressly granted to the debtor by a cred-itor having a capacity to alienate; or tacit, when the creditor voluntarily surrenders to his debtor the original title, under private signature constituting the obligation. Civ. Code La. art. 2195
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In English law. officers of the exchequer, whose duty It le to put in remembrance the lord treasurer and the justlces of that court of such things as are to be called and dealt in for the benefit of the crown. Jacob
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To remit or give up. A form-al word in deeds of release and quitclaim; the usual phrase being “remise, release, and forever quitclaim.” See American Mortg
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Remedy is the means by which the violation of a right is prevented, redressed, or compensated. Remedies are of four kinds: (1) By act of tbe party injured, the principal of which are defense, recaption, distress, entry, abatement, and seizure; (2) by operation of law, as in the case of retalner and remitter; (3) by agreement between the parties, e. g., by accord and satisfaction and arbitration; and (4) by judicial remedy, e. g., action or suit Sweet See Knapp ▼. McCaffrey, 177 U. S. 638, 20 Sup. CL 824, 44 L. Ed. 921; Missionary Soc. v. Ely, 56 ohio St 405, 47 N. E. 537; U. S. v. Lyman, 26 Fed. Cas. 1,024; Frost v. witter, 132 CaL 421, 64 Pac. 705, 84 Am. St. Rep. 53
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The remembrancer of the city of London is parliamentary solicitor to the corporation, and is bound to attend ail courts of aldermen aud common council when required. Pull. Laws & Cust. Lond. 122
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A remnant; that which remains. Thus the causes of which the trial is deferred from one term to another, or from one sitting to another, are termed “rema-nets.” 1 Archb. Pr. 375
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1. Affording a remedy; giving the means of obtaining redress
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In practice. The return made by the sheriff to a writ of execution when he has not been able to sell the property seized, that the same remains unsold for want of buyers
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In old English law. A remainder. Spelman. A perpetuity, or perpetual estate. Glan. llb. 7, & 1
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One who is entitled to the remainder of the estate after a partlcular estate carved out of it has expired
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To remand a prisoner, after a preliminary or partial hearing before a court or magistrate, is to send him back to custody, to be kept until the hearing is resumed or the trial comes on
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The remnant of an estate in land, depending upon a particular prior estate created at the same time and by the same instrument, and limited to arise im-mediately on the determination of that es-tate, and not in abridgment of it. 4 Kent, Comm. 197
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Remains; such as the bones, etc., of saints, preserved with great veneration as sacred memorials. Th^y hnve been forbidden to be used or brought into England. St 3 Jac. I. c. 26
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Lat in the civil law. A renewal of a lease on Its determination. It may be either express or tacit; the latter is when the tenant holds over with the knowl-edge and withont objection of the landlord. Mackeld. Rom. Law, f 412
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In practice. A forsaking, abandoning, renouncing, or giving over a right
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UA. The remainder or debt which a person finds himself debtor iu upon the balancing or liquidation of an account. Hence reliquary, the debtor of a reliqua; as also a person who only pays piece-meal. Enc. Lond
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As used in constitutional provisions forblddlng the “establlshment of religion," the term means a partlcular system of faith and worship recognized and practised by a particular church, sect, or deuom-ination. See Reynolds v. U. S., 98 U. S. 149
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when religious books, or reading are spoken of, those which tend to promote the religion taught by the Christian dispensation must be considered as referred to, unless the meaning is so limited by associated words or circumstances as to show that the speaker er writer had reference to some other mode of worship. Simpson v. Welcome, 72 Me. 500, 39 Am. Rep. 349
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1. In feudal law. A sum pay-able hy the new tenant, the duty heing inci-dent to every feudal tenure, by way of fine or composition with the lord for taking np the estate w'hich was lapsed or fallen in hy the death of the last tenant At oue time the amount was arbitrary, but afterwards the re-lief of a knight's fee became fixed at one hundred shillings. 2 Bl. Comm. 65
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In feudal law, relieve is to depend; thus, the seigulory of a tenant in capite relieves of the crown, meaning that the tenant holds of the crown. The term is not common in English writers. Sweet
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An Increase of the land by the sudden withdrawal or retrocessiou of the sea or a river. Hammond v. Shepard, 186 111. 235, 57 N. E. 867, 78 Am. St Rep. 274; Sapp v. Frazier, 51 La. Ann. 1718, 26 South. 378, 72 Am. St Rep. 493
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Applying to the matter in question; affording something to the purpose
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