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  • 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.
  • REPETUNDAE, OR PECUNIAE REPETUNDAE
    In Roman law. The terms used to designate such sums of money as the socii of the Roman state, or individuals, claimed to recover from magis tratus, judiees, or pub-lid curatorcs, which they had improperly taken or received in the provincial, or in the urbs Roma, either in the discharge More...
  • REPETUNDARUM CRIMEN
    In Roman law. The crime of bribery or extortion in a magistrate, or person in any public office. Calvin.
  • REPLEAD
    To plead anew; to file new pleadings.
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