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To reject; cast ofT; re-pudiate; disclaim; forsake j abandon ; divest one's self of a right, power, or privilege. Usually it Implies […]

Fr. A place appolnt-ed for meeting. Especially used of places appointed for the assembling of troops, the coining together of the ships […]

One who has changed his profession of faith or opinion; one who has deserted hls church or party Source: Black's Law Dictionary […]

or RENIANT. In old Eng-Hsh law. Denylng. 32 Hen. VIII. c. 2 Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A sudden meetlng; as opposed to a duel, wbich is deliberate Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In practice. A transfer of a suit or cause out of one court into an-other, which is effected by writ of error, […]

Reward; recompense; salary. Dig. 17, 1, 7 Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The actual transfer of a pauper, by order of a court having jurisdiction, from a poor district in which he has no […]

1. An order of court directing the removal of a pauper from the poor district upon which he has illegally become a […]

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

The transfer of a cause from one court to another; com-monly used of the transfer of the Jurisdlc-tion and cognizance of an […]

want of dose connection between a wrong and the Injury, as cause and effect, whereby the party injured cannot claim compensation from […]

when the fact or facts proposed to be estabUsh Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Expostulation; showing of reasons against something pro-posed; a representation made to a court or legislative body wherein certain persons unite in urging […]

This word is used in law chiefly as the antithesis of “proximate,” and conveys the idea of mediateness or of the intervention […]

The returning or sending back by a court of appeal of the record and proceedings in a cause, after its decision thereon, […]

A person who makes a remittance to another Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat An entry on the record, by which the plaintiff declares that he remits a part of the damages which have been […]

Lat. In prac-tice. An entry made on record, in cases where a jury has given greater damages than a plaintiff has declared […]

A person to whom a re-mittance is made. Story, Bailm. $ 75 Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The relation back of a later defective title to an earlier valid title. Remitter is where he who has the true property […]

Tbe act of sending hack to custody; an annulment, wharton Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Money sent by one per-son to another, either in specie, bill of ex-change, check, or otherwise Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

This term imports the doing of the act in question in a tardy, neg-ligent, or careless manner; hut it does not apply […]

To send or transmit; as to remit money. Potter v. Morland, 3 Cush. (Mass.) 388; Hollowell v. Life Ins. Co., 126 N. […]