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  • 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...
  • REMOVAL OF PAUPER
    The actual transfer of a pauper, by order of a court having jurisdiction, from a poor district in which he has no settlement, but upon which he has become a charge, to the district of his domicile or settlement.
  • REMOVAL, ORDER OF
    1. An order of court directing the removal of a pauper from the poor district upon which he has illegally become a charge to the district in which he has his settlement 2. An order made by the court a quo, directing the transfer of a cause therein depending, with More...
  • REMOVER
    In practice. A transfer of a suit or cause out of one court into another, which is effected by writ of error, certiorari, and the like. 11 Coke, 41.
  • REMUNERATION
    Reward; recompense; salary. Dig. 17, 1, 7. The word "remuneration" means a quid pro quo. If a man gives his services, whatever consideration he gets for giving his services seems to me a remuneration for them. Consequently, I think, if a person was in the receipt of a payment, or More...
  • RENANT, OR RENIANT
    In old English law. Denying. 32 Hen. VIII. c. 2.
  • RENCOUNTER
    A sudden meeting; as opposed to a duel, which is deliberate.
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