Category: dictionaries

In old English law. To let one to mainprise upon surety. CowelL Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The plalntlff In an action of replevin Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

or REPLEVI8ABLB Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A personal action ex delicto brought to recover possession of goods unlawfully taken, (generally, hut not only, applicable to the taking of […]

You cause to Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In canon law. where the revenue of a benefice is sufficient to fill or occupy the whole rlght or title of the […]

To plead anew; to file new pleadings Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

To replevy; to redeem a thing detained or taken hy another by pat-ting in legal sureties Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

A repeated, second, or reclprocal dlstress; withernam. 3 Bl. Comm. 148 Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In Roman law. The crime of bribery or extortion in a magistrate, or person in any public of-flce. Calvin Source: Black's Law […]

In French law. The in-ventory or minutes which notaries make of all contracts which take place before them. Merl. Repert Source: Black's […]

In tbe civU law. A Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In Spanish law, a judicial proceeding for the partition of prop-erty held in common. See Steinbach ▼. Moore, 30 Cal. 505 Source: […]

The abrogation or annulling of a previously existing law by the enact-ment of a subsequent statute which declares that the former law […]

The redress of an in-jury; amends for a wrong Inflicted Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Formak-lng repairs. The name of an old writ which lay in various cases; as if, for instance,-there were three tenants in common […]

Lat The defendant being absent; in the absence of the defend-ant Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Restoration to soundness; supply of loss; reparation; work done to an estate to keep it in good order Source: Black's Law Dictionary […]

(Said to be corrupted from “rent-roll.") In English law. A roll on which the rents of a manor are registered or set […]

In French law. Rente is the annual return which represents the revenue of a capital or of an immovable allenated. The coustitution […]

At eommon law. A certain profit issuing yearly out of lands and tene-ments corporeal; a species of incorporeal hereditament. 2 Bl. Comm. […]

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

In Eng-lish practice. Refusing to take upon one’s self the office of executor or executrix. Re-fusing to take out probate under a […]

Lat. In old English law. To renew. Annuatim renovare, to renew annually. A phrase applied to profits which are taken and the […]

The act of renewlng or reviving. The substitution of a new grant, engagement, or right, in place of one which has expired, […]