Legal Term Dictionary

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...

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 with reference to judgments by confession, and not synonymous with "entering." "docketing," or "recording" the judgment The rendition of a judgment is the judicial act of the court in pronouncing the sentence of. the law, while the entry of a judgment is a ministerial act, which consists in spreading upon the record a statement of the final conclusion reached by the court in the matter, thus furnishing external and incontestable evidence of the sentence given and designed to stand as a perpetual memorial of its action. See Schuster v. Rader, 13 Colo. 329, 22 Pac. 505; Farmers' State Bank v. Bales, 64 Neb. 870, 90 N. W. 945; Fleet v. Youngs, 11 Wend. (N. Y.) 522; Schurtx v. Romer, 81 Cal. 244, 22 Pac. 657; Winstead v. Evans (Tex. Civ. App.) 33 S. W. 580; Coe v. Erb, 59 Ohio St. 259, 52 N. E. 640, 69 Am. St Rep. 764. Less...

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.

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. Less...

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.

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. Less...

One who has changed his profession of faith or opinion; one who has deserted his church or party.

One who has changed his profession of faith or opinion; one who has deserted his church or party. Less...

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...

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. Ins. Co., 110 N. Y. 15, 17 N. E. 396; Gault v. McGrath, 32 Pa. 392; Kedey v. Petty, 153 Ind. 179, 54 N. E. 798; Pitts v. Hall, 19 Fed. Cas. 75& Less...

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.

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. Less...

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.

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. Less...

Lat In old English law. To renew. Annuatim renovare, to renew annually. A phrase applied to profits which are taken and the product renewed again. Anib. 13L

Lat In old English law. To renew. Annuatim renovare, to renew annually. A phrase applied to profits which are taken and the product renewed again. Anib. 13L Less...

At common low. A certain profit issuing yearly out of lands and tenements corporeal; a species of incorporeal hereditament. 2 Bl. Comm. 41. A compensation or return yielded periodically, to a certain amount, out of the profits of some corporeal hereditaments, by the tenant thereof. 2 Steph. Comm. 23. A More...

At common low. A certain profit issuing yearly out of lands and tenements corporeal; a species of incorporeal hereditament. 2 Bl. Comm. 41. A compensation or return yielded periodically, to a certain amount, out of the profits of some corporeal hereditaments, by the tenant thereof. 2 Steph. Comm. 23. A certain yearly profit in money, provisions, chattels, or labor, issuing out of lands and tenements, in retribution for the use. 3 Kent, Comm. 460. The compensation, either in money, provisions, chattels, or labor, received by the owner of the soil from the occupant thereof. Jack. & G. Landl. A Ten. ? 3a And see Lombard v. Boyden, 5 Allen (Mass.) 254; Bledsoe v. Nixon, 60 N. C. 89 ; Fisk v. Bray-man, 21 R. I. 195, 42 Ati. 878; Clarke v. Cobb, 121 Cal. 595, 54 Pac. 74; Parsell v. Stryker, 41 N. Y. 483 ; Otis v. Conway, 114 N. Y. 13, 20 N. E. 628 ; Payn v. Beal, 4 Denio (N. Y.) 412; Van Wicklen v. Paulson, 14 Barb. (N. Y.) 655. In Louisiana. The contract of rent of lands Is a contract by which one of the parties conveys and cedes to the other a tract of land, or any other immovable property, and stipulates that the latter shall hold it as owner, but reserving to the former an annual rent of a certain sum of money, or of a certain quantity of fruits, which the other party binds himself to pay him. It is of the essence of this conveyance that it be made in perpetuity. If it be made for a limited time, it is a lease. Civ. Code La. arts. 2779, 2780. -Pee farm rent. A rent charge issuing out of an estate in fee; a perpetual rent reserved on a conveyance of land in fee simple.-Ground rent. See GROUND.-Quit rent. Certain established rents of the freeholders and ancient copyholders of manors were so called, because by their payment the tenant was free and "quit" of all other services.-Rack rent. A rent of the full annual value of the tenement or near it. 2 Bl. Comm. o 43.-Rent-charge* This arises where the owner of the rent has no future interest or reversion in the land. It is usually created by deed or will, and is accompanied with powers of distress and entry.- Rent-roll. A list of rents payable to a particular person or public body.-Rent seek. Barren rent; a rent reserved by deed, but with* out any clause of distress. 2 Bl. Comm. 42; 3 Kent, Comm. 401.-Rent-service. This consisted of fealty, together with a certain rent, and was the only kind of rent originally known to the common law. It was so called because it was given as a compensation for the services to which the land was originally liable. Brown. -Rents of assise. The certain and determined rents of the freeholders and ancient copyholders of manors are called "rents of assize." apparently because they were assized or made certain, and so distinguished from a redditus mobilis, which was a variable or fluctuating rent. 3 Cruise, Dig. 314; Brown.-Rents resolute. Rents anciently payable to the crown from the lands of abbeys and religious houses; and after their dissolution, notwithstanding that the lands were demised to others, yet the rents were still reserved and made payable again to the crown. Cowell. Rent mnst be reserved to him from whom tbe state of tbe land moretb. Co. Litt 143. Less...

Rent.

Rent. Less...