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Remote
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RemoteAt a distance; afar off, not immediate. A remote cause is not in general sufficient to charge a man with the commission of a crime, nor with being the author of a tort.
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Immediate
That which is produced directly by the act to which it is ascribed, without the intervention or agency of any distinct intermediate cause.
Remote
At a distance; afar off, not immediate. A remote cause is not in general sufficient to charge a man with the commission of a crime, nor with being the author of a tort.
Cause
1) Civil law. It signifies the delivery of the thing, or the accomplishment of the act which is the object of a convention. 2) It is the consideration or motive for making a contract. 3) Pleading. The reason; the motive. 4) Practice. A contested question before a court of justice; it is a Suit or action.
General
1) A principal officer, particularly in the army. 2) Something opposed to special; as, a general verdict, the general issue, which expressions are used in contradistinction to special verdict, special issue. 3) Principal, as the general post office. 4) Not select, as a general ship. 5) Not particular, as a general custom. 5) Not limited, as general jurisdiction. 7) This word is sometimes annexed or prefixed to other words to express or limit the extent of their signification; as Attorney General, Solicitor General, the General Assembly.
Charge
1) Wills, devises. An obligation which a testator imposes on his devisee. 2) Contracts. An obligation entered into by the owner of an estate which makes the estate responsible for its performance. 3) Practice. The opinion expressed by the court to the jury, on the law arising out of a case before them.
Commission
1) Contracts, civil law. When one undertakes, without reward, to do something for another in respect to a thing bailed. This term is frequently used synonymously with mandate. 2) Criminal law. The act of perpetrating an offence. 3) Office. Persons authorized to act in a certain matter. 4) practice. An instrument issued by a court of, justice, or other competent tribunal, to authorize a person to take depositions, or do any other act by authority of such court, or tribunal, is called a commission. 5) Government. Letters-patent granted by the government, under the public seal, to a person appointed to an office, giving him authority to perform the duties of his office.
Crime
An act or omission which is prohibited by criminal law. Each state sets out a limited series of acts (crimes) which are prohibited and punishes the commission of these acts by a fine, imprisonment or some other form of punishment. In exceptional cases, an omission to act can constitute a crime, such as failing to give assistance to a person in peril or failing to report a case of child abuse.
Tort
An injury; a wrong; hence the expression an executor de son tort, of his own wrong.
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Remo
Abbreviation for "reciprocal enforcement of maintenance orders" and the name of the international system of recognition, registration and enforcement of child and spousal support orders between countries which have agreed, between themselves, to enforce each other's maintenance orders. Originally created by England, the international REMO system now spreads over many countries. In the USA, the system is known as UIFSA or URESA.
Remonstrance
A petition to a court, or deliberative or legislative body, in which those who have signed it request that something which it is in contemplation to perform shall not be done.
Removal
The expulsion of an alien from the United States. This expulsion may be based on grounds of inadmissibility or deportability.
Removal from office
The act of a competent officer or of the legislature which deprives an officer of his office. It may be express, that is, by a notification that the officer has been removed, or implied, by the appointment of another person to the same office.
Remover
Practice. When a suit or cause is removed out of one court into another, which is effected by writ of error, certiorari, and the like.
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Remittitur damnum
Practice. The act of the plaintiff upon the record, whereby he abates or remits the excess of damages found by the jury beyond the sum laid in the declaration.
Remittor
Contracts. A person who makes a remittance to another.
Remittur of record
After a record has been removed to the supreme court, and a judgment has been rendered, it is to be remitted or sent back to the court below, for the purpose of re-trying the cause, when the judgment has been reversed, or of issuing an execution when it has been affirmed. The act of so returning the record, and the writ issued for that purpose, bear the name of remittitur.
Remo
Abbreviation for "reciprocal enforcement of maintenance orders" and the name of the international system of recognition, registration and enforcement of child and spousal support orders between countries which have agreed, between themselves, to enforce each other's maintenance orders. Originally created by England, the international REMO system now spreads over many countries. In the USA, the system is known as UIFSA or URESA.
Remonstrance
A petition to a court, or deliberative or legislative body, in which those who have signed it request that something which it is in contemplation to perform shall not be done.
Remote
Removal
The expulsion of an alien from the United States. This expulsion may be based on grounds of inadmissibility or deportability.
Removal from office
The act of a competent officer or of the legislature which deprives an officer of his office. It may be express, that is, by a notification that the officer has been removed, or implied, by the appointment of another person to the same office.
Remover
Practice. When a suit or cause is removed out of one court into another, which is effected by writ of error, certiorari, and the like.
Remuneration
Reward; recompense; salary.
Render
To yield; to return; to give again; it is the reverse of prender.
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Immediate
That which is produced directly by the act to which it is ascribed, without the intervention or agency of any distinct intermediate cause.
Remote
At a distance; afar off, not immediate. A remote cause is not in general sufficient to charge a man with the commission of a crime, nor with being the author of a tort.
Cause
1) Civil law. It signifies the delivery of the thing, or the accomplishment of the act which is the object of a convention. 2) It is the consideration or motive for making a contract. 3) Pleading. The reason; the motive. 4) Practice. A contested question before a court of justice; it is a Suit or action.
General
1) A principal officer, particularly in the army. 2) Something opposed to special; as, a general verdict, the general issue, which expressions are used in contradistinction to special verdict, special issue. 3) Principal, as the general post office. 4) Not select, as a general ship. 5) Not particular, as a general custom. 5) Not limited, as general jurisdiction. 7) This word is sometimes annexed or prefixed to other words to express or limit the extent of their signification; as Attorney General, Solicitor General, the General Assembly.
Charge
1) Wills, devises. An obligation which a testator imposes on his devisee. 2) Contracts. An obligation entered into by the owner of an estate which makes the estate responsible for its performance. 3) Practice. The opinion expressed by the court to the jury, on the law arising out of a case before them.
Commission
1) Contracts, civil law. When one undertakes, without reward, to do something for another in respect to a thing bailed. This term is frequently used synonymously with mandate. 2) Criminal law. The act of perpetrating an offence. 3) Office. Persons authorized to act in a certain matter. 4) practice. An instrument issued by a court of, justice, or other competent tribunal, to authorize a person to take depositions, or do any other act by authority of such court, or tribunal, is called a commission. 5) Government. Letters-patent granted by the government, under the public seal, to a person appointed to an office, giving him authority to perform the duties of his office.
Crime
An act or omission which is prohibited by criminal law. Each state sets out a limited series of acts (crimes) which are prohibited and punishes the commission of these acts by a fine, imprisonment or some other form of punishment. In exceptional cases, an omission to act can constitute a crime, such as failing to give assistance to a person in peril or failing to report a case of child abuse.
Tort
An injury; a wrong; hence the expression an executor de son tort, of his own wrong.
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Remo
Abbreviation for "reciprocal enforcement of maintenance orders" and the name of the international system of recognition, registration and enforcement of child and spousal support orders between countries which have agreed, between themselves, to enforce each other's maintenance orders. Originally created by England, the international REMO system now spreads over many countries. In the USA, the system is known as UIFSA or URESA.
Remonstrance
A petition to a court, or deliberative or legislative body, in which those who have signed it request that something which it is in contemplation to perform shall not be done.
Removal
The expulsion of an alien from the United States. This expulsion may be based on grounds of inadmissibility or deportability.
Removal from office
The act of a competent officer or of the legislature which deprives an officer of his office. It may be express, that is, by a notification that the officer has been removed, or implied, by the appointment of another person to the same office.
Remover
Practice. When a suit or cause is removed out of one court into another, which is effected by writ of error, certiorari, and the like.
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Remittitur damnum
Practice. The act of the plaintiff upon the record, whereby he abates or remits the excess of damages found by the jury beyond the sum laid in the declaration.
Remittor
Contracts. A person who makes a remittance to another.
Remittur of record
After a record has been removed to the supreme court, and a judgment has been rendered, it is to be remitted or sent back to the court below, for the purpose of re-trying the cause, when the judgment has been reversed, or of issuing an execution when it has been affirmed. The act of so returning the record, and the writ issued for that purpose, bear the name of remittitur.
Remo
Abbreviation for "reciprocal enforcement of maintenance orders" and the name of the international system of recognition, registration and enforcement of child and spousal support orders between countries which have agreed, between themselves, to enforce each other's maintenance orders. Originally created by England, the international REMO system now spreads over many countries. In the USA, the system is known as UIFSA or URESA.
Remonstrance
A petition to a court, or deliberative or legislative body, in which those who have signed it request that something which it is in contemplation to perform shall not be done.
Remote
Removal
The expulsion of an alien from the United States. This expulsion may be based on grounds of inadmissibility or deportability.
Removal from office
The act of a competent officer or of the legislature which deprives an officer of his office. It may be express, that is, by a notification that the officer has been removed, or implied, by the appointment of another person to the same office.
Remover
Practice. When a suit or cause is removed out of one court into another, which is effected by writ of error, certiorari, and the like.
Remuneration
Reward; recompense; salary.
Render
To yield; to return; to give again; it is the reverse of prender.
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