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  • RENTAL
    (Said to be corrupted from "rent-roll.") In English law. A roll on which the rents of a manor are registered or set down, and by which the lord's bailiff collects the same. It contains the lands and tenements let to each tenant, the names of tbe tenants, and other particulars. More...
  • RENTE
    In French law. Rente ia the annual return which represents the revenue of a capital or of an immovable alienated. The constitution of rente. is a contract by which one of the parties lends to the other a capital which he agrees not to recall, in consideration of the borrower's More...
  • RENTS, ISSUES, AND PROFITS
    more commonly signify in the books a chattel real interest in land; a kind of estate growing out of the land, for life or years, producing an annual or other rent. Bruce v. Thompson, 26 Vt 746.
  • RENUNCIATION
    The act of giving up a right. See RENOUNCE.
  • REO ABSENTE
    Lat The defendant being absent; in the absence of the defendant.
  • REPAIRS
    Restoration to soundness; supply of loss; reparation; work done to an estate to keep it in good order. "Repair" means to restore to its former condition; not to change either the form or material of a building. Ardesco Oil Co. v. Richardson, 63 Pa. 162. -Necessary repairs. Necessary repairs (for More...
  • REPARATION
    The redress of an injury; amends for a wrong inflicted.
  • REPARATIONS FACIENDA
    For making repairs. The name of an old writ which lay in various cases; as if, for instance,-there were three tenants in common of a mill or house which had fallen Into decay, and one of the three was willing to repair it, and the other two not; in such More...
  • REPARTIAMENTO
    In Spanish law, a judicial proceeding for the partition of property held in common. See Steinbach v. Moore, 30 Cal. 505.
  • REPATRIATION
    takes place when a person who has been expatriated regains his nationality.
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