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  • 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.
  • REDITUS
    Lat A revenue or return; income or profit; specifically, rent. -Reditus albi White rent; blanche farm; rent payable in silver or other money.-Reditu* assisus. A set or standing rent.-Reditus eapitale*. Chief rent paid by freeholders to go quit of all other services.-Reditus nigri. Black rent; black mail; rent payable in More...
  • REDMANS
    In feudal law. Men who, by the tenure or custom of their lands, were to ride with or for the lord of the manor,' about his business. Domesday.
  • REDOBATORES
    In old English law. Those that buy stolen cloth and turn it into some other color or fashion that it may not be recognized. Redubbers.
  • REDRAFT
    In commercial law. A draft or bill drawn in the place where the original bill was made payable and where it went to protest on the place where such original bill was drawn, or, when there is no regular commercial intercourse rendering that practicable, then in the next best or More...
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