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  • REFUND
    To repay or restore; to return money had by one party of another See RacklhT v. Greenbush, 93 Me. 99, 44 Atl. 375; Maynard v. Mechanics' Nat Bank, 1 Brewst. (Pa.) 484; Gutch v. Fosdlck, 48 N. J. Eq. 353, 22 Atl. 590, 27 Am. St. Rep. 473. -Refunding bond. More...
  • REFUSAL
    The act of one who has, by law, a right and power of having or doing something of advantage, and declines it Also, the declination of a request or demand, or the omission to comply with seme requirement of law, as the result of a positive intention to disobey. In More...
  • REFUTANTIA
    In old records An acquittance or acknowledgment of renouncing all future claim. Cowell.
  • REG. GEN.
    An abbreviation of "Reglia Generalia," a general rule, (of court)
  • REG. JUD.
    An abbreviation of "Regittrum Judioiale" the register of judicial writs.
  • REG. LIB.
    An abbreviation of "Regestrar Liber," the register's book in chancery, containing all decrees.
  • REG. ORIG.
    An abbreviation of "IRegistrum Originle" the register of original writs.
  • REG. PL.
    An abbreviation of "Regale Placitandi," rule of pleading.
  • REGAL FISH
    Whales and sturgeons, so called in English law, as belonging to the king by prerogative when cast on shore or caught near the coast 1 Bl. Comm. 290.
  • REGALE
    In old French law. A payment made to the seigneur of a fief, on the election of every bishop or other ecclesiastical feudatory, corresponding with the relief paid by a lay feudatory. Steph. Lect 235.
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