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  • 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...
  • REDEMISE
    A regranting of land demised or leased.
  • REDEMPTIO OPERIS
    Lat In Roman law, a contract for the hiring or letting of services, or for the performance of a certain work in consideration of the payment of a stipulated price. It is the same contract as "locatio operis" but regarded from the standpoint of the one who is to do More...
  • REDEMPTION
    A repurchase; a buying back. The act of a vendor of property in buying it back again from the purchaser at the same or an enhanced price. The right of redemption is an agreement or paction, oy which the vendor reserves to him self the power of taking back the More...
  • REDEUNDO
    Lat Returning; in re1 turning; while returning. 2 Strange, 985.
  • REDEVANCE
    In old French and Canadian law. Dues payable by a tenant to his lord, not necessarily in money.
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