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Rescue
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Rescue1) Criminal law. A forcible setting at liberty against law of a person duly arrested. The person who rescues the prisoner is called the rescuer. 2) Maritimal war. The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by the enemy. There is still another kind of rescue which partake's of the nature of a recapture; it occurs when the weaker party before he is overpowered, obtains relief from the arrival of fresh succors, and is thus preserved from the force of the enemy.
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Criminal
Relating to, or having the character of crime
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.
Liberty
Freedom from restraint. The power of acting as one thinks fit, without any restraint or control, except from the laws of nature. Liberty is divided into civil, natural, personal, and political.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Prisoner
One held in confinement against his will.
Retaking
The taking one's goods, wife, child, from another, who with-out right has taken possession thereof.
Party
Practice, contracts. When applied to practice, by party is understood either the plaintiff or defendant. In contracts, a party is one or more persons who engage to perform or receive the performance of some agreement.
Prize
1) Maritime law, war. The apprehension and detention at sea, of a ship or other vessel, by authority of a belligerent power, either with the design of appropriating it, with the goods and effects it contains, or with that of becoming master of the whole or a part of its cargo. 2) Contracts. A reward which is offered to one of several persons who shall accomplish a certain condition; as, if an editor should offer a silver cup to the individual who shall write the best essay in favor of peace.
Rescue
1) Criminal law. A forcible setting at liberty against law of a person duly arrested. The person who rescues the prisoner is called the rescuer. 2) Maritimal war. The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by the enemy. There is still another kind of rescue which partake's of the nature of a recapture; it occurs when the weaker party before he is overpowered, obtains relief from the arrival of fresh succors, and is thus preserved from the force of the enemy.
Recapture
war. By this term is understood the recovery from the enemy, by a friendly force, of a prize by him captured. It differs from rescue.
When
1) At which time, in wills, standing by itself unqualified and unexplained, this is a word of condition denoting the time at which the gift is to continence. 2) The context of a will may show that the word when is to be applied to the possession only, not to the vesting of a legacy; but to justify this construction, there must be circumstances, or other expressions in the will, showing such to have been the testator's intent.
Relief
1) English law. A relief was an incident to every feudal tenure, by way of fine or composition with the lord for taking up the estate which was lapsed or fallen in by the death of the last tenant. 2) Practice. That assistance which a court of chancery will lend to a party to annul a contract tinctured with fraud, or where there has been a mistake or accident; courts of equity grant relief to all parties in cases where they have rights and modify and fashion that relief according to circumstances.
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Resceit
1) The act of receiving or admitting a third person to plead his right in a cause commenced by two; as when an action is brought against a tenant for life or term of years, the reversioner is allowed to defend. 2) Resceit or receit. The admission or receiving of a third person to plead his right in a cause formerly commenced between two other persons; as, when an action is brought against a tenant for life or years, or any other particular tenant, and he makes default, in such case the reversioner may move that he may be received to defend his right, and to plead with the demandant.
Rescind
To abrogate or cancel a contract putting the parties in the same position they would have been in had there been no contract. Rescission can occur in one of two ways: either a contract can be set aside (rescinded) because of some defect in its formation (such as misrepresentation, duress or undue influence) or it can be set aside by agreement by the parties, for example if they reach a new agreement.
Rescission
Voluntary cancellation of a contract either unilaterally (by one party) or by both. Can only be exercised under certain circumstances.
Rescission of a contract
The destruction or annulling of a contract.
Rescous
crim. law, torts. This word is used synonymously with rescue, . and denotes the illegal taking away and setting at liberty a distress taken, or a person arrested by due process of law.
Rescript
Conv. A counterpart.
Rescription
French law. A rescription is a letter by which the maker requests some one to pay a certain sum of money, or to account for him to a third person for it
Rescripts
Civil law. The answers of the prince at the request of the parties respecting some matter in dispute between them, or to magistrates in relation to some doubtful matter submitted to him.
Rescussor
The party making a rescue, is sometimes so called, but more properly he is a rescuer.
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Rescission of a contract
The destruction or annulling of a contract.
Rescous
crim. law, torts. This word is used synonymously with rescue, . and denotes the illegal taking away and setting at liberty a distress taken, or a person arrested by due process of law.
Rescript
Conv. A counterpart.
Rescription
French law. A rescription is a letter by which the maker requests some one to pay a certain sum of money, or to account for him to a third person for it
Rescripts
Civil law. The answers of the prince at the request of the parties respecting some matter in dispute between them, or to magistrates in relation to some doubtful matter submitted to him.
Rescue
Rescussor
The party making a rescue, is sometimes so called, but more properly he is a rescuer.
Research
A careful hunting for facts or truth about a subject; inquiry; investigation.
Reservation
Contracts. That part of a deed or other instrument which reserves a thing not in esse at the time of the grant, but newly created.
Reset of theft
Scotch law. The receiving and keeping of stolen goods knowing them to be stolen, with a design of feloniously retaining them from the real owner.
Resetter
Scotch law. A receiver of stolen goods, knowing them to have been stolen.
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Criminal
Relating to, or having the character of crime
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.
Liberty
Freedom from restraint. The power of acting as one thinks fit, without any restraint or control, except from the laws of nature. Liberty is divided into civil, natural, personal, and political.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Prisoner
One held in confinement against his will.
Retaking
The taking one's goods, wife, child, from another, who with-out right has taken possession thereof.
Party
Practice, contracts. When applied to practice, by party is understood either the plaintiff or defendant. In contracts, a party is one or more persons who engage to perform or receive the performance of some agreement.
Prize
1) Maritime law, war. The apprehension and detention at sea, of a ship or other vessel, by authority of a belligerent power, either with the design of appropriating it, with the goods and effects it contains, or with that of becoming master of the whole or a part of its cargo. 2) Contracts. A reward which is offered to one of several persons who shall accomplish a certain condition; as, if an editor should offer a silver cup to the individual who shall write the best essay in favor of peace.
Rescue
1) Criminal law. A forcible setting at liberty against law of a person duly arrested. The person who rescues the prisoner is called the rescuer. 2) Maritimal war. The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by the enemy. There is still another kind of rescue which partake's of the nature of a recapture; it occurs when the weaker party before he is overpowered, obtains relief from the arrival of fresh succors, and is thus preserved from the force of the enemy.
Recapture
war. By this term is understood the recovery from the enemy, by a friendly force, of a prize by him captured. It differs from rescue.
When
1) At which time, in wills, standing by itself unqualified and unexplained, this is a word of condition denoting the time at which the gift is to continence. 2) The context of a will may show that the word when is to be applied to the possession only, not to the vesting of a legacy; but to justify this construction, there must be circumstances, or other expressions in the will, showing such to have been the testator's intent.
Relief
1) English law. A relief was an incident to every feudal tenure, by way of fine or composition with the lord for taking up the estate which was lapsed or fallen in by the death of the last tenant. 2) Practice. That assistance which a court of chancery will lend to a party to annul a contract tinctured with fraud, or where there has been a mistake or accident; courts of equity grant relief to all parties in cases where they have rights and modify and fashion that relief according to circumstances.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Resceit
1) The act of receiving or admitting a third person to plead his right in a cause commenced by two; as when an action is brought against a tenant for life or term of years, the reversioner is allowed to defend. 2) Resceit or receit. The admission or receiving of a third person to plead his right in a cause formerly commenced between two other persons; as, when an action is brought against a tenant for life or years, or any other particular tenant, and he makes default, in such case the reversioner may move that he may be received to defend his right, and to plead with the demandant.
Rescind
To abrogate or cancel a contract putting the parties in the same position they would have been in had there been no contract. Rescission can occur in one of two ways: either a contract can be set aside (rescinded) because of some defect in its formation (such as misrepresentation, duress or undue influence) or it can be set aside by agreement by the parties, for example if they reach a new agreement.
Rescission
Voluntary cancellation of a contract either unilaterally (by one party) or by both. Can only be exercised under certain circumstances.
Rescission of a contract
The destruction or annulling of a contract.
Rescous
crim. law, torts. This word is used synonymously with rescue, . and denotes the illegal taking away and setting at liberty a distress taken, or a person arrested by due process of law.
Rescript
Conv. A counterpart.
Rescription
French law. A rescription is a letter by which the maker requests some one to pay a certain sum of money, or to account for him to a third person for it
Rescripts
Civil law. The answers of the prince at the request of the parties respecting some matter in dispute between them, or to magistrates in relation to some doubtful matter submitted to him.
Rescussor
The party making a rescue, is sometimes so called, but more properly he is a rescuer.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Rescission of a contract
The destruction or annulling of a contract.
Rescous
crim. law, torts. This word is used synonymously with rescue, . and denotes the illegal taking away and setting at liberty a distress taken, or a person arrested by due process of law.
Rescript
Conv. A counterpart.
Rescription
French law. A rescription is a letter by which the maker requests some one to pay a certain sum of money, or to account for him to a third person for it
Rescripts
Civil law. The answers of the prince at the request of the parties respecting some matter in dispute between them, or to magistrates in relation to some doubtful matter submitted to him.
Rescue
Rescussor
The party making a rescue, is sometimes so called, but more properly he is a rescuer.
Research
A careful hunting for facts or truth about a subject; inquiry; investigation.
Reservation
Contracts. That part of a deed or other instrument which reserves a thing not in esse at the time of the grant, but newly created.
Reset of theft
Scotch law. The receiving and keeping of stolen goods knowing them to be stolen, with a design of feloniously retaining them from the real owner.
Resetter
Scotch law. A receiver of stolen goods, knowing them to have been stolen.
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