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  • RELATRIX
    In practice. A female relator or petitioner.
  • RELAXARE
    In old conveyancing. To release. Relaxavi, relaxasse, have released. Litt | 445.
  • RELAXATIO
    In old conveyancing. A release; an instrument by which a person relinquishes to another his right in anything.
  • RELAXATION
    In old Scotch practice. Letters passing the signet by which a debtor was relaxed [released] from the horn; that is, from personal diligence. Belt
  • RELEASE
    (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...
  • RELEASEE
    The person to whom a release is made.
  • RELEASER, OR RELEASOR
    The maimer of a release.
  • RELEGATIO
    Lat. A kind of banishment known to the civil law, which differed from "deportatio" in leaving to the person his rights of citizenship.
  • RELEGATION
    In old English law. Banishment for a time only. Co. Litt 133.
  • RELEVANCY
    As a quality of evidence, 'relevancy' means applicability to the issue joined. Relevancy is that which conduces to the proof of a pertinent hypothesis; a pertinent hypothesis being one which, if sustained, would logically influence the issue. Whart Ev. In Scotch law, the relevancy is the justice or sufficiency in More...
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