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  • 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...
  • REDRESS
    The receiving satisfaction for an injury sustained.
  • REDUBBERS
    In criminal law. Those who bought stolen cloth and dyed it of another color to prevent its being identified were anciently so called. Cowell; 8 Inst 184.
  • REDUCE
    In Scotch law. To rescind or annul.
  • REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM
    Lat In logic. The method of disproving an argument by showing that it leads to an absurd consequence.
  • REDUCTION
    In Scotch law. An action brought for the purpose of rescinding, annulling, or cancelling some bond, contract, or other instrument in writing. 1 Forb. Inst pt. 4, pp. 158, 150. In French law Abatement When a parent gives away, whether by gift inter vivos or by legacy, more than his More...
  • REDUCTION INTO POSSESSION
    The act of exercising the right conferred by a chose in action, so as to convert it into a chose in possession; thus, a debt is reduced into possession by payment Sweet.
  • REDUNDANCY
    This is the fault of introducing superfluous matter into a legal Instrument; particularly the insertion in a pleading of matters foreign, extraneous, and irrelevant to tfcat which It is intended to answer. See Carpenter v. Reynolds, 58 Wis. 066, 17 N. W. 300; Carpenter v. West 5 How. Prac. (N. More...
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