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Rejection; disclaimer; renunciation; the rejection or refusal of an offered or available right or privilege, or of a duty or relation. See […]

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

The re-execution or re-establishment by a testator of a wlll which he had once revoked Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old records. Money paid by servile tenants for exemption from the customary duty of reaping tor the lord. CowelL Source: Black's […]

A commonwealth; a form of government which derives all Its powers dlrectly or indirectly from the general body of citizens, and in […]

In ecclesiastical law. The interposition of objections or exceptions; as, to the competency of witnesses, to the due execution of Instruments offered […]

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

A publlc and formal censure or severe reproof, administered to a person In fault by hls superior officer or by a body […]

The forcibly taking a thing by one nation which belonged to another, in return or satisfaction for an injury committed by the […]

Representation le the act of one person representing or stand* ing in the place of another; and he who so represents or […]

In criminal law. The with* drawing of a sentence of death for an in-terval of time, whereby the execution is sus-pended. 4 […]

To exhibit; to expose before the eyes. To represent a thing is to produce it publicly. Dig. 10, 4, 2, 3 Source: […]

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

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

A storehouse or place wherein things are kept; a warehouse. Cro. Car. 555 Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A person who reports the decisions upon questions of law in the cases adjudged in the several courts of law and equity, […]

The name given, par excellence, to Lord Coke's Reports, from 14 Eliz. to 13 Jac. I., which are cited as “Rep Source: […]

In Scotch practice. To re place; to restore to a former state or right. 2 Alls. Crim. Pr. 351 Source: Black's Law […]

An official or formal statement of facts or proceedings Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In pleading. A reply made by the plaintiff in an action to the defendant’s plea, or in a suit in chancery to […]

In its general sense, a reply is what the plaintiff, petitioner, or other person who has Instituted a proceeding says in answer […]

Lat. In the civil law and old English pleading. To reply; to an-swer a defendant’s plea Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

Lat in the civil law and old Englisb pleading. The plaintiffs answer to the defendant’s exception or plea; corresponding with and giving […]

This word, as used in reference to the action of replevin, signifies to redeliver goods which have been distrained, to the original […]

or REPLICANT. A litigant who replies or files or delivers a replication Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)