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  • 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.
  • REPEAL
    The abrogation or annulling of a previously existing law by the enactment of a subsequent statute which declares that the former law shall be revoked and abrogated, (which is called "express" repeal,) or which contains provisions so contrary to or irreconcilable with those of the earlier law that only one More...
  • REPERTORY
    In French law. The inventory or minutes which notaries make of all contracts which take place before them. Merl. Repert
  • REPETITION
    In tbe civil law. A demand or action for the restoration of money paid under mistake, or goods delivered by mistake or on an unperformed condition. Dig. 12, 6. See SOLUTIO INDEBITT. In Scotch law. The act of reading over a witness' deposition, in order that he may adhere to More...
  • REPETITUM NAMIUM
    A repeated, second, or reciprocal distress; withernam. 3 Bl. Comm. 148.
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