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  • RELOCATIO
    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.
  • RELOCATION
    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...
  • REMAINDER
    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...
  • REMAINDER-MAN
    One who is entitled to the remainder of the estate after a particular estate carved out of it has expired.
  • REMAND
    To remand a prisoner, after a preliminary or partial hearing before a court or magistrate, is to send him back to custody, to be kept until the hearing is resumed or the trial comes on. To remand a case, brought into an appellate court or removed from one court into More...
  • REMANENT PRO DEFECTU EMPTORUM
    In practice. The return made by the sheriff to a writ of execution when he has not been able to sell the property seized, .that the same remains unsold for want of buyers.
  • REMANENTIA
    In old English law. A remainder. Spelman. A perpetuity, or perpetual estate. Glan. lib. 7, c 1.
  • REMANET
    A remnant; that which remains. Thus the causes of which the trial is deferred from one term to another, or from one sitting to another, are termed "remo-nets." 1 Archb. Pr. 375.
  • REMEDIAL
    1. Affording a remedy; giving the means of obtaining redress. "2.Of the nature of a remedy; intended to remedy wrongs or abuses, abate faults, or supply defects." "3. Pertaining to or affecting the remedy, as distinguished from that which affects or modifies the right" -Remedial statnte. A statute providing a More...
  • REMEDY
    Remedy is the means by which the violation of a right is prevented, redressed, or compensated. Remedies are of four kinds: (1) By act of the party injured, the principal of which are defense, recaption, distress, entry, abatement, and seizure; (2) by operation of law, as in the case of More...
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