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  • READING-IN
    In English ecclesiastical law. The title of a person admitted to a rectory or other benefice will be divested unless within two months after actual possession he publicly read in the church of the benefice, upon some Lord's day, and at the appointed times, the morning and evening service, according More...
  • REAFFORESTED
    Where a deafforest-ed forest is again made a forest 20 Car. II. c. 3.
  • REAL
    In common law. Relating to land, as distinguished from personal property. This term is applied to lands, tenements, and hereditaments. In tbe civil law. Relating to a thing, (whether movable or immovable,) as distinguished from a person. o-Real bnrden. In Scotch law. Where a right to lands is expressly granted More...
  • REAL LAW
    At common law. The body of laws relating to real property. This use of the term is popular rather thau technical. In the civil law. A law which relates to specific property, whether movable or immovable. Laws purely real directly and indirectly regulate property, and the rights of property, without More...
  • REALITY
    In foreign law. That quality of laws which concerns property or things, (qua ad rem spectant.) Story, Confl. Laws, f 16.
  • REALIZE
    To convert any kind of property into money; but especially to receive the returns from an investment. See Bitti-ner v. Gomprecht, 28 Misc. Rep. 218, 58 N. Y. Supp. 1011.
  • REALM
    A kingdom; a country. 1 Taunt 270 ; 4 Camp. 289.
  • REALTY
    A brief term for real property ; also for anything which partakes of the nature of real property. -Quasi realty. Things which are fixed in contemplation of law to realty, but movable in themselves, as heir-looms, (or limbs of the inheritance,) title-deeds, court rolls, etc. Wharton.
  • REAPPRAISER
    A person who, in certain cases, is appointed to make a revalua tion or second appraisement of imported goods at the custom-house.
  • REASON
    A faculty of the mind by which it distinguishes truth from falsehood, good from evil, and which enables the possessor to deduce inferences from facts, or from propositions. Webster. Also an inducement motive, or ground for action, as in the phrase "reasons for an appeal." See Nelson v. Clongland, 15 More...
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