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  • 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...
  • RE-ENTRY
    The entering again into or resuming possession of premises. Thus in leases there is a proviso for re-entry of the lessor on the tenant's failure to pay the rent or perform the covenants contained in the lease, and by virtue of such proviso the lessor may take the premises into More...
  • RE-EXAMINATION
    An examination Of a witness after a cross-examination, upon matters arising out of such cross-examination. See EXAMINATION.
  • RE-EXCHANGE
    The damages or expenses caused by the dishonor and protest of a bill of exchange in a foreign country, where it was payable, and by its return to the place where it was drawn or indorsed, and its being there taken up. Bangor Bank y. Hook, 5 Me. 175.
  • RE-EXTENT
    In English practice. A second extent made upon lands or tenements, upon complaint made that the former extent was partially performed. Cowell.
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