Legal Term Dictionary

1. A relative or kinsman; a person connected by consanguinity or affinity. 2.The connection of two persons, or their situation with respect to each other, who are associated, whether by the law, by their own agreement, or by kinship, in some social status or union for the purposes of domestic More...

1. A relative or kinsman; a person connected by consanguinity or affinity. 2.The connection of two persons, or their situation with respect to each other, who are associated, whether by the law, by their own agreement, or by kinship, in some social status or union for the purposes of domestic life; as the relation of guardian and ward, husband and wife, master and servant parent and child; so in the phrase "domestic relations." 3. In the law of contracts, when an act is done at one time, and it operates upon the thing as if done at another time, it is said to do so by relation; as, If a man deliver a deed as an escrow, to be delivered, by the party holding it, to the grantor, on the performance of some act the delivery to the latter will have relation back to the first delivery. Termes de la Ley. See U. S. v. Anderson, 191 U. S. 394, 24 Sup. Ct. 716, 48 L. Ed. 1035; Peyton v. Desmond, 129 Fed. 11, 63 C. C. A. 651.'" 4. A recital, account, narrative of facts; information given. Thus, suits by QUO tear-ranto are entitled "on the relation of a private person, who is called the "relator." But in this connection the word seems also to Involve the Idea of the suggestion, instigation, or instance of the relator. 5. In the civil law, the term "relation" was used to designate the report of the facts and law in a pending case, made by the judges to the emperor, for the purpose of obtaining his opinion on the questions of law involved, in the form of an imperial rescript This proceeding might be resorted to in cases where no law seemed applicable, or where there were great difficulties in its interpretation, until, it was abolished by Justinian. Nov. 125. Less...

A term which, in its widest sense, includes all the kindred of the person spoken of. 2 Jarm. Wills, 06L

A term which, in its widest sense, includes all the kindred of the person spoken of. 2 Jarm. Wills, 06L Less...

A kinsman; a person connected with another by blood or affinity. A person or thing having relation or connection with some other person or thing; as, relative rights, relative powers, infra. -Relative confession. See CONFESSION.- Relative fact In the law of evidence. A fact having relation to another fact; a More...

A kinsman; a person connected with another by blood or affinity. A person or thing having relation or connection with some other person or thing; as, relative rights, relative powers, infra. -Relative confession. See CONFESSION.- Relative fact In the law of evidence. A fact having relation to another fact; a minor fact; a circumstance.-Relative powers - Those which relate to land; so called to distinguish them from those which are collateral oto It-Relative rifhts. Those rights of persons which are incident to them as members of society, and standing in various relations to oeach' other. 1 Bl. Comm. 123. Those rights of persons in private life which arise from the civil and domestic relations. 2 Kent, Comm. L . Relative words refer to the next antecedent, unless the sense bo thereby impaired. Noy, Max. 4; Wing. Max. 19; Broom, Max. 606; Jenk. Cent 180. Relativorum, oognito uno, eognoseitnr et alterum. Cro. Jac. 539. Of relatives, one being known, the other is also known. Less...

The person upon whose complaint or at whose instance, an information or writ of quo warranto is filed, and who is quasi the plaintiff in the proceeding.

The person upon whose complaint or at whose instance, an information or writ of quo warranto is filed, and who is quasi the plaintiff in the proceeding. Less...

In practice. A female relator or petitioner.

In practice. A female relator or petitioner. Less...

In old conveyancing. To release. Relaxavi, relaxasse, have released. Litt | 445.

In old conveyancing. To release. Relaxavi, relaxasse, have released. Litt | 445. Less...

In old conveyancing. A release; an instrument by which a person relinquishes to another his right in anything.

In old conveyancing. A release; an instrument by which a person relinquishes to another his right in anything. Less...

In old Scotch practice. Letters passing the signet by which a debtor was relaxed [released] from the horn; that is, from personal diligence. Belt

In old Scotch practice. Letters passing the signet by which a debtor was relaxed [released] from the horn; that is, from personal diligence. Belt Less...

(1) liberation, discharge, or setting free from restraint or confinement Thus, a man unlawfully imprisoned may obtain his release on habeas corpus. Parker v. U. S., 22 Ct CL 100. (2). The relinquishment, concession, or giving up of a right, claim, or privilege, by the person in whom it exists More...

(1) liberation, discharge, or setting free from restraint or confinement Thus, a man unlawfully imprisoned may obtain his release on habeas corpus. Parker v. U. S., 22 Ct CL 100. (2). The relinquishment, concession, or giving up of a right, claim, or privilege, by the person in whom it exists or to whom it accrues, to the person against whom it might have been demanded or enforced. Jaqua v. Shewalter, 10 ind. App. 234, 37 N. E. 1072; Winter v. Kansas City Cable Ry. Co., 160 Mo. 159, 61 S. W. 606." (3). The abandonment to (or by) a person called as a witness in a suit of his interest in the subject-matter of the controversy, ilk order to qualify him to testify, under the common-law rule". (4). A receipt or certificate given by a ward to the guardian, on the final settlement of the latter's accounts, or by any other beneficiary on the termination of the trust administration, relinquishing all and any further rights, claims, or demands, growing out of the trust or Incident to it". Less...

The person to whom a release is made.

The person to whom a release is made. Less...