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Refection
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RefectionCivil law. Reparation, reestablishment of a building.
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Civil
1) It is used in contradistinction to barbarous or savage, to indicate a state of society reduced to order and regular government; thus we speak of civil life, civil society, civil government, and civil liberty. 2) It is sometimes used in contradistinction to criminal, to indicate the private rights and remedies of men, as members of the community, in contrast to those which are public and relate to the government; thus we speak of civil process and criminal process, civil jurisdiction and criminal jurisdiction.
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Reparation
The redress of an injury; amends for a tort inflicted.
Building
Estates. An edifice erected by art, and fixed upon or over the soil, composed of stone, brick, marble, wood, or other proper substance.
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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.
Referendum
International law. When an amhassador receives propositions touching an object over which he has no sufficient power and he is without instruction, he accepts it ad referendum, that is, under the condition that it shall be acted upon by his government, to which it is referred. The note addressed in that case to his government to submit the question to its consideration is called a referendum.
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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
The name of an ancient English officer of justice, inferior in rank to an alderman.
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
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.
Referendum
International law. When an amhassador receives propositions touching an object over which he has no sufficient power and he is without instruction, he accepts it ad referendum, that is, under the condition that it shall be acted upon by his government, to which it is referred. The note addressed in that case to his government to submit the question to its consideration is called a referendum.
Reform
To reorganize; to rearrange as, the jury "shall be reformed by putting to and taking out of the persons so impanneled."
Refugee
Any person who is outside his or her country of nationality who is unable or unwilling to return to that country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution. Persecution or the fear thereof must be based on the alien’s race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion. People with no nationality must generally be outside their country of last habitual residence to qualify as a refugee.
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Civil
1) It is used in contradistinction to barbarous or savage, to indicate a state of society reduced to order and regular government; thus we speak of civil life, civil society, civil government, and civil liberty. 2) It is sometimes used in contradistinction to criminal, to indicate the private rights and remedies of men, as members of the community, in contrast to those which are public and relate to the government; thus we speak of civil process and criminal process, civil jurisdiction and criminal jurisdiction.
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Reparation
The redress of an injury; amends for a tort inflicted.
Building
Estates. An edifice erected by art, and fixed upon or over the soil, composed of stone, brick, marble, wood, or other proper substance.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
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.
Referendum
International law. When an amhassador receives propositions touching an object over which he has no sufficient power and he is without instruction, he accepts it ad referendum, that is, under the condition that it shall be acted upon by his government, to which it is referred. The note addressed in that case to his government to submit the question to its consideration is called a referendum.
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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
The name of an ancient English officer of justice, inferior in rank to an alderman.
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
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.
Referendum
International law. When an amhassador receives propositions touching an object over which he has no sufficient power and he is without instruction, he accepts it ad referendum, that is, under the condition that it shall be acted upon by his government, to which it is referred. The note addressed in that case to his government to submit the question to its consideration is called a referendum.
Reform
To reorganize; to rearrange as, the jury "shall be reformed by putting to and taking out of the persons so impanneled."
Refugee
Any person who is outside his or her country of nationality who is unable or unwilling to return to that country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution. Persecution or the fear thereof must be based on the alien’s race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion. People with no nationality must generally be outside their country of last habitual residence to qualify as a refugee.
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