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  • 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...
  • REMEMBRANCER
    The remembrancer of the city of London is parliamentary solicitor to the corporation, and is bound to attend all courts of aldermen and common council when required. PulL Laws & Oust. Lond. 122.
  • REMEMBRANCERS
    In English law. Officers of the exchequer, whose duty it ia to put in remembrance the lord treasurer and the justices of that court of such things as are to be called and dealt in for the benefit of the crown. Jacob.
  • REMISE
    To remit or give up. A formal word In deeds of release and quitclaim: the usual phrase being "remise, release, and forever quitclaim." See American Mortg. Oo. v. Hutchinson, 19 Or. 334, 24 Pac. 515; McAnaw v. Tiffin, 143 Mo. 667, 45 S. W. 656; Lynch v. Livingston, 6 N. More...
  • REMISE DE LA DETTE
    In French law. The release of a debt.
  • REMISSION
    In the civil law. A release of a debt. It Is conventional, when It Is expressly granted to the debtor by a creditor having a capacity to alienate; or tacit, when the creditor voluntarily surrenders to his debtor the original title, under private signature constituting the obligation. Civ. Code La. More...
  • REMISSNESS
    This term Imports the doing of the act in question in a tardy, negligent or careless manner; but it does not apply to the entire omission or forbearance of the act Baldwin v. United States Tel. Co., 6 Abb. Prac. N. S. (N. Y.) 423.
  • REMIT
    To send or transmit; as to remit money. Potter v. Morland, 3 Cush. (Mass.) 388; Hollowell v. Life Ins. Co., 126 N. C. 398, 35 S. E. 616. To give up; to annul; to relinquish; as to remit a fine. Jungbluth v. Redfleld, 14 Fed. Cas. 52; Gibson v. People, More...
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