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LT. In law, a thing is said to re-sult when, after having been ineffectually or only partially disposed of, it comes back […]

In practice. A second summons.. The calling a person a second time to answer an action, where the first summons is defeated […]

In tbe case of land registered under the English land transfer act, 1875, a restriction is an entry on the register made […]

An Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A statute which restrains the common law, where it is too lax and luxuriant. 1 Bl. Comm. 87. Gtitutes restraining' the powers […]

Confinement, abridgment, or limitation. Prohibition of action; holding or pressing back from action. Hindrance, confinement, or restriction of liberty Source: Black's Law […]

An order In the nature of an injunction. See Order Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Restrictions or limitations Imposed upon the excr-cise of a power by the donor thereof Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

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

To limit, confine, abridge, narrow down, or restrict Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In maritime law Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A writ to restore a man to the church, which he had recovered for his sanctuary, being suspected of felony. Reg. orig. […]

This term, as current-ly understood, means only, or chiefly, an eat-ing-house; but it has no such fixed and defi-nlte legal meaning as […]

Lat. In the civil law. Restoration or restitution to the previous condition. This was effected by the pnetor on equitable grounds, at […]

Passing it a sec-ond time through the proper office, whereupon it receives a new stamp. 1 Chit. Arch. Pr. 212 Source: Black's […]

R, or RESTOR. The remedy or recourse which marine underwriters have against each other, according to the date of their assurances, or […]

Answering; constituting or comprising a complete answer. A “re Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The taking of lands into the hands of the crown, where a general Uv-ery or ouster le main was formerly misused Source: […]

The obligation to answer for an act done, and to repair any in-jury it may have caused Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd […]

To say that a person is “responsible” means that he is able to pay a sum for which he is or may […]

In old English law Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

He who appears and answers for another in court at a day as-signed; a proctor, attorney, or deputy. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, […]

Lat. In pleading. The prayer of a plea where the de-fendant insists that he ought not to answer, as when he claims […]

Lat Answers of jurists; responses given upon cases or questions of law referred to them, by cer-tain learned Roman jurists, who, though […]

The party who makes an answer to a bill or other proceeding in chancery Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)