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  • 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.
  • REDDITARIUS
    In old records. A renter; a tenant Cowell.
  • REDDITARIUM
    In old records. A rental, or rent-rollCowell.
  • REDDITION
    A surrendering or restoring ; also a Judicial acknowledgment that the thing in demand belongs to the demandant and not to the person surrendering Cowell.
  • REDEEM
    To buy back. To liberate an estate or article -from mortgage or pledge by paying the debt for which it stood as security. To repurchase in a literal sense; as, to redeem one's land from a tax-sale. See Maxwell v. Foster, 67 S. C. 877, 45 8. B. 927, Miller More...
  • REDEEMABLE
    1. Subject to an obligation of redemption; embodying, or conditioned upon, a promise or obligation of redemption; convertible into coin; as, a "redeemable currency." See U. S. v. North Carolina, 136 U. S. 211, 10 Sup. Ct 920, 84 L. Ed. 336. 2. Subject to redemption; admitting of redemption or More...
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