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  • RECUSATIO TESTIS
    Lat In the civil law. Rejection of a witness, on the ground of incompetency. Best Ev. Introd. 60, { 60
  • RECUSATION
    In the civil law. A species of exception or plea to the jurisdiction, to the effect that the particular judge is disqualified from hearing the cause by reason of interest or prejudice. Poth. Proa Civile, pt 1, c. 2, | 5.The challenge of jurors. Code Prac. La. arts. 409, 500. More...
  • RED, RAED, OV REDE
    Sax. Advice; counsel.
  • RED BOOK OF THE EXCHEQUER
    An ancient record, wherein are registered the holders of lands per baroniam in the time of Henry II., the number Of hides of land in certain counties before the Conquest, and the ceremonies on the coronation of Eleanor, wife of Henry III. Jacob; Cowell.
  • RED-HANDED
    With the marks of crime fresh on him.
  • RED TAPE
    n a derivative sense, order carried to fastidious excess; system run out into trivial extremes. Webster v. Thompson, 55 Ga. 434.
  • REDDENDO SINGULA SINGULIS
    Lat By referring each to each; referring each phrase or expression to its appropriate object. A rule of construction.
  • REDDENDUM
    Lat In conveyancing. Rendering; yielding. The technical name of that clause in a conveyance by which the grantor creates or reserves some new thing to himself, out of what he had before granted; as "rendering therefor yearly the sum of ten shillings, or a pepper-corn," etc. That clause in a More...
  • REDDENS CAUSAM SCIENTIAE
    Lat Giving the reason of his knowledge. In Scotch practice. A formal phrase used in depositions, preceding the statement of the reason of the witness' knowledge. 2 How. State Tr. 715. Reddere, nil aliud est qnam aoeeptnm restituere; sen, reddere est quasi retro dare, et reddltur dieitnr a redeande, quia More...
  • REDDIDIT SE
    Lat. He has rendered himself. In old English practice. A term applied to a principal who had rendered himself in discharge of his bail. Holtbouse.
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