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  • 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.
  • REPLEADER
    When, after issue has been joined in an action, and a verdict given thereon, the pleading is found (on examination) to have miscarried and failed to effect its proper object viz., of raising an apt and material question between the parties, the court will, on motion of the unsuccessful party, More...
  • REPLEGIARE
    To replevy; to redeem a thing detained or taken by another by putting in legal sureties. -Replegiare de averils. Replevin of cattle. A writ brought by one whose cattle were distrained, or put in the pound, upon any cause by another, upon surety given to the sheriff to prosecute or More...
  • REPLEGIARI FACIAS
    You cause to be replevied. In old English law. The original writ in the action of replevin; superseded by the statute of Marlbridge, c. 21. 3 Bl. Comm. 146.
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