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  • 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.
  • REDHIBERE
    Lat In the civil law, To have again; to have back; to cause a .seller to have again what he had before.
  • REDHIBITION
    In the civil law. The avoidance of a sale on account of some vice or defect in the thing sold, which renders it either absolutely' useless or its use so inconvenient and imperfect that it must be supposed that the buyer would not have purchased it had he known of More...
  • REDHIBITORY ACTION
    In the civil law. An action for redhibition. An action to avoid a sale on account of some vice or defect in the thing sold, which renders its use impossible, or so Inconvenient and imperfect that it must be supposed the buyer would not have purchased it had he known More...
  • REDHIBITORY DEFECT (OR VICE)
    In tbe civil law. A defect in an article sold, for which the seller may be compelled to take it back; a defect against which the seller is bound to warrant Poth. Cont Sale, no. 208.
  • REDISSEISIN
    In old English law. A second disseisin of a person of the same tenements, and by the same disseisor, by whom he was before disseised. 8 Bl. Comm. 188.
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