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Reeve
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ReeveThe name of an ancient English officer of justice, inferior in rank to an alderman.
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Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.
Justice
Fairness. A state of affairs in which conduct or action is both fair and right, given the circumstances. In law, it more specifically refers to the paramount obligation to ensure that all persons are treated fairly. Litigants "seek justice" by asking for compensation for wrongs committed against them; to right the inequity such that, with the compensation, a wrong has been righted and the balance of "good" or "virtue" over "wrong" or "evil" has been corrected.
Inferior
One who in relation to another has less power and is below him; one who is bound to obey another. He who makes the law is the superior; he who is bound to obey it, the inferior.
Rank
The order or place in which certain officers are placed in the army and navy, in relation to others, is called their rank.
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Reditus nigri
A rent payable in grain, work and the like. It was also called black mail.
Re-draft
Common law. A bill of exchange drawn at the place where another bill was made payable, and where it was protested, upon the place where the first bill was drawn, or when there is no regular commercial intercourse rendering that practicable, then in the next best or most direct practicable course.
Redress
The act of receiving satisfaction for an injury sustained.
Redubbers
crim law. Those who bought stolen cloth, and dyed it of another color to prevent its being identified, were anciently so called.
Reese, Willis Livingston Mesier
(1913- ). Best known for the Restatement Second, 1969, where he took the "most significant connection" rule of J.H.C. Morris and turned it into a set of multiple rules based on the principle that the applicable law is the law which has the most significant relationship.
Reeve
Re-examination
A second examination of a thing.
Refalo
A word composed of the three initial syllables re. fa. lo., for recordari facias loquelam.
Refection
Civil law. Reparation, reestablishment of a building.
Referee
A person to whom has been referred a matter in dispute, in order that he may settle it. His judgment is called an award.
Reference
1) Contracts. An agreement to submit to certain arbitrators, matters in dispute between two or more parties, for their decision, and judgment. The persons to whom such matters are referred are sometimes called referees. 2) Mercantile law. A direction or request by a party who asks a credit to the person from whom he expects it, to call on some other person named in order to ascertain the character or mercantile standing of the former. 3) Practice. The act of sending any matter by a court of chancery or one exercising equitable powers, to a master or other officer, in order that he may ascertain facts and report to the court. By reference is also understood that part of an instrument of writing where it points to another for the matters therein contained.
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Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.
Justice
Fairness. A state of affairs in which conduct or action is both fair and right, given the circumstances. In law, it more specifically refers to the paramount obligation to ensure that all persons are treated fairly. Litigants "seek justice" by asking for compensation for wrongs committed against them; to right the inequity such that, with the compensation, a wrong has been righted and the balance of "good" or "virtue" over "wrong" or "evil" has been corrected.
Inferior
One who in relation to another has less power and is below him; one who is bound to obey another. He who makes the law is the superior; he who is bound to obey it, the inferior.
Rank
The order or place in which certain officers are placed in the army and navy, in relation to others, is called their rank.
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Reditus nigri
A rent payable in grain, work and the like. It was also called black mail.
Re-draft
Common law. A bill of exchange drawn at the place where another bill was made payable, and where it was protested, upon the place where the first bill was drawn, or when there is no regular commercial intercourse rendering that practicable, then in the next best or most direct practicable course.
Redress
The act of receiving satisfaction for an injury sustained.
Redubbers
crim law. Those who bought stolen cloth, and dyed it of another color to prevent its being identified, were anciently so called.
Reese, Willis Livingston Mesier
(1913- ). Best known for the Restatement Second, 1969, where he took the "most significant connection" rule of J.H.C. Morris and turned it into a set of multiple rules based on the principle that the applicable law is the law which has the most significant relationship.
Reeve
Re-examination
A second examination of a thing.
Refalo
A word composed of the three initial syllables re. fa. lo., for recordari facias loquelam.
Refection
Civil law. Reparation, reestablishment of a building.
Referee
A person to whom has been referred a matter in dispute, in order that he may settle it. His judgment is called an award.
Reference
1) Contracts. An agreement to submit to certain arbitrators, matters in dispute between two or more parties, for their decision, and judgment. The persons to whom such matters are referred are sometimes called referees. 2) Mercantile law. A direction or request by a party who asks a credit to the person from whom he expects it, to call on some other person named in order to ascertain the character or mercantile standing of the former. 3) Practice. The act of sending any matter by a court of chancery or one exercising equitable powers, to a master or other officer, in order that he may ascertain facts and report to the court. By reference is also understood that part of an instrument of writing where it points to another for the matters therein contained.
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