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  • REMTTTIT DAMNA
    Lat An entry on the record, by which the plaintiff declares that he remits a part of the damages which have been awarded him.
  • REMITTITUR DAMNA
    Lat In practice. An entry made on record, in cases where a jury has given greater damages than a plaintiff has declared for, remitting the excess. 2 Tidd, Pr. 896.
  • REMITTITUR OF RECORD
    The returning or sending back by a court of appeal of the record and proceedings in a cause, after its decision thereon, to the court whence the appeal came, In order that the cause may be tried anew, (where it is so ordered,) or that Judgment may be entered in More...
  • REMITTOR
    A person who makes a remittance to another.
  • REMONSTRANCE
    Expostulation; showing of reasons against something 'proposed; a representation made to a court or legislative body wherein certain persons unite in urging that a contemplated measure be not adopted or passed. See Girvin v. Simon, 127 Cal. 491, 59 Pac. 945; In re Mercer County License Applications, 8 Pa. Co. More...
  • REMOTE
    This word la used in law chiefly as the antithesis of ''proximate," and conveys the idea of mediateness or of the intervention of something else. -Remote oanse. In the law of negligence, a "remote" cause of an accident or injury is one which does not by itself alone produce the More...
  • REMOTENESS
    Want of close connection between a wrong and the injury, as cause and effect, whereby the party injured cannot claim compensation from the wrongdoer. Wharton.
  • REMOTENESS OF EVIDENCE
    When the fact or facts proposed to be established as a foundation from -which indirect evidence may be drawn, by way of inference, have not a visible, plain, or necessary connection with the proposition eventually to be proved, such evidepce is rejected for "remoteness." See 2 Whart Ev. | 1226, More...
  • REMOVAL FROM OFFICE
    The act of a person or body, having lawful authority thereto, in depriving one of an office to which he was appointed or elected.
  • REMOVAL OF CAUSES
    The transfer of a cause from one court to another; commonly used of the transfer of the jurisdiction and cognizance of an action commenced but not finally determined, with all further proceedings therein, from one trial court to another trial court More particularly, the transfer of 'a cause, before trial More...
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