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This term is applied to the survivor of a pair of married people, whether the survivor is the husband or the wife; […]

In old English lnw. Banishment for a time only. Co. Litt. 133 Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

As a quallty of evidence, “relevancy" means appllcabillty to the issue jolned. Relevancy is that which conduces to the proof of a […]

or RELEASOR. The maker of a release Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat. A kind of banish-ment known to the civil law, which differed from “deportatio" in leaving to the person his rights of […]

1. Liberation, discharge, or setting free from restraint or confinement. Thus, a man unlawfully imprisoned may obtain his release on habeas corpus. […]

The person to whom a re-lease is made Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old conveyancing. A release; an Instrument by which a person relinquishes to another his right in anything Source: Black's Law Dictionary […]

In old Scotch practice. Letters passlng the signet by whlch a debtor was relaxed [released] from the horn; that is, from personal […]

X. In practice. A female relator or petitioner Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In oid conveyancing. To release. Relaxavi, relaxasse, have released. IAtt | 445 Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A kinsman; a person con-nected with another by blood or affinity Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The person upon whose complaint, or at whose instance, an information or writ of quo warranto is filed, and who is quasi […]

1. A relative or kinsman; a person connected by consanguinity or affln-ity Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A term which, in its widest sense, lncludes all the kindred of the person spoken of. 2 Jarm. wills, 66L Source: Black's […]

In common-law plead-ing. The second pleadlng on the part of the defendant, being hls answer of matter of fact to the plalntlff*s […]

Rejoining vol-untarlly, or wlthout being required to do so by a rule to rejoin, when a defendant was under terms to rejoin […]

Bank-note® Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In pleading. To answer a plaintiff's replication in an action at law, by some matter of fact Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd […]

To place again in a former state, condition, or office; to restore to a state or position from which the object or […]

A contract of rein-sura nee is one by which an Insurer procures a third person to insure him against ioss or liability […]

A robbery. CoweU Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The primary, meaning of this word is “to pay back." Philadelphia Trust, etc., Co. v. Audenreid, 83 Pa. 264. It means to […]

In equity practice. A second hearing of a cause, for which a party who is dissatisfied with the decree entered on the […]

Lat Thlngs in-tervening; that is, things done by one of the partles to a contract, in the falth of Its va-lldity, and […]