Legal Term Dictionary

In feudal law, relieve is to depend; thus, the seigniory of a tenant in capite relieves of the crown, meaning that the tenant holds of the crown. The term la not common in English writers. Sweet

In feudal law, relieve is to depend; thus, the seigniory of a tenant in capite relieves of the crown, meaning that the tenant holds of the crown. The term la not common in English writers. Sweet Less...

As used in constitutional provisions forbidding the "establishment of religion," the term means a particular system of faith and worship recognized and practised by a particular church, sect, or denomination. See Reynolds v. U. S., 98 U. S. 149, 26 L. Ed. 244; Davis v. Reason, 133 U. S. 333, More...

As used in constitutional provisions forbidding the "establishment of religion," the term means a particular system of faith and worship recognized and practised by a particular church, sect, or denomination. See Reynolds v. U. S., 98 U. S. 149, 26 L. Ed. 244; Davis v. Reason, 133 U. S. 333, 10 Sup. Ct 299, 33 L. Ed. 637; Board of Education v. Minor, 23 Ohio St 241, 13 Am, Bep. 233. -Religion, offenses against. In English law. They are thus enumerated by Blackstone: (1) Apostasy; (2) heresy: (3) reviling the ordinances of the church; (4) blasphemy; (5) profane swearing; (6) conjuration or witchcraft; (7) religious imposture; (8) simony; (9) profanation of the Lord's day; (10) drunkenness; (11) lewdness. 4 Bl. Comm. 43. Less...

When religious books, or reading are spoken of, those which tend to promote the religion taught by the Christian dispensation must be considered as referred to, unless the meaning is so limited by associated words or circumstances as to show that the speaker or writer had reference to some other More...

When religious books, or reading are spoken of, those which tend to promote the religion taught by the Christian dispensation must be considered as referred to, unless the meaning is so limited by associated words or circumstances as to show that the speaker or writer had reference to some other mode of worship. Simpson v. Welcome, 72 Me. 500, 39 Am. Rep. 349. -Religions eorporation. See CORPORATION.-Religions houses. Places set apart for pious uses; such as monasteries, churches, hospitals, and all other places where charity was extended to the relief of the poor and orphans, or for the use or exercise of religion. -Religions Impostors. In English law. Those who falsely pretend an extraordinary commission from heaven, or terrify and abuse the people with false denunciations of judgment; punishable with fine, imprisonment, and infamous corporal punishment 4 Broom A H. Comm. 71.-ReUgious liberty. See LIBERTY. -Religions men. Such as entered into some monastery or convent In old English deeds, the vendee was often restrained from aliening to "Jews or religious men" lest the lands should fall into mortmain. Religious men were civilly dead. Blount.-Religions society.' A body of persons associated together for the purpose of maintaining religious worship. A church and society are often united in maintaining worship, and in such cases the society commonly owns the property, and makes the pecuniary contract with the minister. But in many instances, societies exist without a church, and churches without a society. Silsby v. Barlow, 16 Gray (Mass.) 330; Weld v. May. 9 Cush. (Mass.) 188; Hebrew Free School Ass'n v. New York, 4 Hun (N. Y.) 449.-Religions use. See CHABITABLE USES. Less...

In practice. A forsaking, abandoning, renouncing, or giving over a right.

In practice. A forsaking, abandoning, renouncing, or giving over a right. Less...

The remaiuder or debt which a person finds himself debtor in upon the balancing or liquidation of an account. Hence ^reliquary, the debtor of a reliqua; as also a person who only pays piece-meal. Enc. Lond.

The remaiuder or debt which a person finds himself debtor in upon the balancing or liquidation of an account. Hence ^reliquary, the debtor of a reliqua; as also a person who only pays piece-meal. Enc. Lond. Less...

Remains; such as the bones, etc., of saints, preserved with great veneration as sacred memorials. They have been forbidden to be used or brought into England. St 3 Jac. I. c. 26.

Remains; such as the bones, etc., of saints, preserved with great veneration as sacred memorials. They have been forbidden to be used or brought into England. St 3 Jac. I. c. 26. Less...

Lat In the civil law. A renewal of a lease on its determination. It may be either express or tacit; the latter is when the tenant holds over with the knowledge and without objection of the landlord. Mackeld. Rom. Law, f 412.

Lat In the civil law. A renewal of a lease on its determination. It may be either express or tacit; the latter is when the tenant holds over with the knowledge and without objection of the landlord. Mackeld. Rom. Law, f 412. Less...

In Scotch law. A reletting or renewal of a lease; a tacit relocation Is permitting a tenant to hold over without any new agreement. In mining law. A new or fresh location of an abandoned or forfeited mining claim by a stranger, or by the original locator when he wishes More...

In Scotch law. A reletting or renewal of a lease; a tacit relocation Is permitting a tenant to hold over without any new agreement. In mining law. A new or fresh location of an abandoned or forfeited mining claim by a stranger, or by the original locator when he wishes to change the boundaries or to correct mistakes in the original location. Less...

The remnant of an estate in land, depending upon a particular prior estate created at the same time and by the same instrument and limited to arise Immediately on the determination of that estate, and not in abridgment of it 4 Kent, Comm. 197. An estate limited to take effect More...

The remnant of an estate in land, depending upon a particular prior estate created at the same time and by the same instrument and limited to arise Immediately on the determination of that estate, and not in abridgment of it 4 Kent, Comm. 197. An estate limited to take effect and be enjoyed alter another estate is determined. As, if a man seised in fee-simple grants lands to A. for twenty years, and, after the determination of the said term, then to B. and his heirs forever, here A. is tenant for years, remainder to B. in fee. 2 Bl. Comm. 164. An estate in remainder is one limited to be enjoyed after another estate is determined, or at a time specified in the future. An estate in reversion is the residue of an estate, usually the fee left in the grantor and his heirs after the determination of a particular estate which he has granted out of it The rights of the reversioner are the same as those of a vested remainder-man in fee. Code Ga. 1882, f 2263. And see Sayward v. Sayward, 7 Me. 213, 22 Am. Dec. 191; Bennett v. Garlock, 10 Hun (N. Y.) 337; Dana v. Murray, 122 N. Y. 604, 26 N. E. 21; Booth v. Terrell, 16 Ga. 24; Palmer v. Cook, 159 111. 300, 42 N. E. 796, 50 Am. St. Rep. 165; Wells v. Houston, 23 Tex. Civ. App. 629, 57 S. W. 584; Hudson v. Wadsworth, 8 Conn. 359. -Contingent remainder. An estate in remainder which Is limited to take effect either to a dubious and uncertain person, or upon a dubious and uncertain event by which no present or particular interest passes to the remainder-man, so that the particular estate may chance to be determined and the remainder never take effect. 2 Bl. Comm. 169. A remainder limited so as to depend upon an event or condition which may never happen or be performed, or which may not happen or be performed till after the determination of the preceding estate. Fearne. Rem. 3; Thompson v. Adams, 205 111. 552, 69 N. B. 1; Griswold v. Greer, 18 Ga. 545; Price v. Sisson, 13 N. J. Eq. 168; Yocum v. Siler, 160 Mo. 281, 61 S. W. 208; Shannon v. Bonham, 27 Ind. App. 369. 60 N. E. 951.- Crosa-remainder. Where land is devised or conveyed to two or more persons as tenants in common, or where different parts of the same land are given to such persons in severalty, with such limitations that, upon the determination of the particular estate of either, his share is to pass to the other, to the entire exclusion of the ultimate remainder-man or reversioner until all the particular estates shall be exhausted, the remainders so limited are called "cross-remainders." In wills, such remainders may arise by implication; but, in deeds, only by express limitation. See 2 Bl. Comm. 381; 2 Washb. Real Prop. 233; 1 Prest. Est 94.-Executed remainder. A remainder which vests a present interest in the tenant, though the enjoyment is postponed to the future. 2 Bl. Comm. 168: Fearne, Rem. 31; Hudson v. Wadsworth, 8 Conn. 359.-Eaeeutory remainder. A contingent remainder; one which exists where the estate is limited to take effect either to a dubious and uncertain person or upon a dubious and uncertain event Temple v. Scott 143 111. 290, 32 N. E. 366; Hudson v. Wadsworth, 8 Conn. 359.-Vested remainder. An estate by which a present interest passes to the party, though to be enjoyed in futuro, and by which the estate is invariably fixed to remain to a determinate person after the particular estate has been spent. 2 Bl. Comm. 168. A vested remainder is one limited to a certain person at a certain time or upon the happening of a necessary event Code Ga. ? 2265. And see Poor v. Considine, 6 Wall. 474. 18 I*. Ed. 869; Tayloe v. Gould, 10 Barb. (N. Y.) 396: Johnson v. Edmond, 65 Conn. 492, 33 Atl. 503; Marvin v. Led with, 111 111. 150; Wallace v. Minor, 86 Va. 550, 10 S. E. 423; Woodman v. Woodman, 89 Me. 128, 35 Ati. 1037; Brown v. Lawrence, 3 Cush. (Mass.) 397. Remainder to a person not of a capacity to tahe at the time of appointing it, is ?old. Plowd. 27. Less...

One who is entitled to the remainder of the estate after a particular estate carved out of it has expired.

One who is entitled to the remainder of the estate after a particular estate carved out of it has expired. Less...