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  • 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.
  • RENDER (VERB)
    v. In practice. To give up; to yield; to return; to surrender. Also to pay or perform; used of rents, services, and the like. -Reader judgment. To pronounce, state, declare, or announce the judgment of the court in a given case or on a given state of facts; not used More...
  • RENDER (NOUN)
    n. In feudal law, "render" was used in connection with rents and heriots. Goods subject to rent or heriot-serv-ice were said to lie in render, when the lord might not only seize the identical goods, but might also distrain for them. Cowell.
  • RENDEZVOUS
    Fr. A place appointed for meeting. Especially used of places appointed for the assembling of troops, the coming together of the ships of a fleet, or the meeting of vessels and their convoy.
  • RENEGADE
    One who has changed his profession of faith or opinion; one who has deserted his church or party.
  • RENEWAL
    The act of renewing or reviving. The substitution of a new grant, engagement, or right, in place of one which has expired, of the same character and on the same terms and conditions as before; as, the renewal of a note, a lease, a patent. See Carter v. Brooklyn L. More...
  • RENOUNCE
    To reject; cast off; repudiate ; disclaim; forsake; abandon ; divest one's self of a right power, or privilege. Usually It implies an affirmative act of disclaimer or disavowal.
  • RENOUNCING PROBATE
    In English practice. Refusing to take upon one's self the office of executor or executrix. Refusing to take out probate under a will wherein one has been appointed executor or executrix. Holthonse.
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