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  • REGULATE
    The power to regulate commerce, vested in congress, is the power to prescribe the rules by which it shall be governed, that is, the conditions upon which it shall be conducted, to determine when it shall be free, and when subject to duties or other exactions. The power also embraces More...
  • REGULATION
    The act of regulating, a rule or order prescribed for management or government; a regulating principle; a precept. See Curry v. Marvin, 2 Fla. 415; Ames v. Union Pac. Ry. Co. (C. C.) 64 Fed. 178; Hunt v. Lambertvllle, 45 N. J. Law, 282.
  • REGULUS
    Lat In Saxon law. A title sometimes given to the earl or comes, in old charters. Spelman.
  • REHABERE FACIAS SEISINAM
    When a sheriff in the "habere facias seisinam" had delivered seisin of more than he ought, this Judicial writ lay to make him restore seisin of the excess. Reg. Jud- 18, 51, 54.
  • REHABILITATE
    In Scotch and French criminal law. To reinstate a criminal In his personal rights which he has lost by a judicial sentence. Brande.
  • REHABILITATION
    In French and Sooteh criminal law. The reinstatement of a criminal in his personal rights which he has lost by a judicial sentence. Brande. In old English law. A papal bull or brief for re-enabling a spiritual person to exercise his function, who was formerly disabled; or a restoring to More...
  • REHEARING
    In equity practice. A second hearing of a cause, for which a party who is dissatisfied with the decree entered on the former hearing may apply by petition. 3 Bl. Comm. 453. See Belmont v. Erie R. Co., 52 Barb. (N. Y.) 651; Emerson v. Da vies, 8 Fed. Cas. More...
  • REI INTERVENTUS
    Lat Things intervening ; that is, things done by one of the parties to a contract, in the faith of its validity, and with the assent of the other party, and which have so affected his situation that the other will not be allowed to repudiate his obligation, although originally More...
  • REIF
    A robbery. Cowell.
  • REIMBURSE
    The primary, meaning of this word is "to pay back." Philadelphia Trust, etc., Co. v. Audenreld, 83 Pa. 264. It means to make return or restoration of an equivalent for something paid, expended, or lost; to indemnify, or make whole.
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