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  • 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...
  • REDELIVERY
    A yielding and delivering back of a thing. -Redelivery bond. A bond given to a sheriff or other officer, who has attached or levied on personal property, to obtain the release and repossession of tbe property, conditioned to redeliver the property to the officer or pay him its value in More...
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