Legal Term Dictionary

Search our free database of thousands of legal terms. The easiest-to-read, most user-friendly guide to legal terms.This dictionary is from the early 20th century and is not to be construed as legal advice.

Search
  • REPLETION
    In canon law. Where the revenue of a benefice is sufficient to fill or occupy the whole right or title of the graduate who bolds it Wharton.
  • REPLEVIABLE, OR REPLEVISABLB
    Property is said to be repievlable or re-plevisable when proceedings in replevin may be resorted to for tbe purpose of trying the right to such property.
  • REPLEVIN
    A personal action em delicto brought to recover possession of goods unlawfully taken, (generally, but not only, applicable to the taking of goods distrained for rent,) the validity of which taking it ia the mode of contesting, if the party from whom the goods were taken wishes to have them More...
  • REPLEVISH
    In old English law. To let one to mainprise upon surety. Cowell.
  • REPLEVISOR
    The plaintiff in an action of replevin.
  • REPLEVY
    This word, as used in reference to the action of replevin, signifies to redeliver goods which have been distrained, to the original possessor of them, on his pledging or giving security to prosecute an action against the distrainor for the purpose of trying the legality of the distress. It has More...
  • REPLIANT, OR REPLICANT
    A litigant who replies or files or delivers a replication.
  • REPLICARE
    Lat. In the dvil law and old English pleading. To reply; to answer a defendant's plea.
  • REPLICATIO
    Lat In the civil law and old English pleading. The plaintiffs answer to the defendant's exception or plea; corresponding with and giving name to the replication in modern pleading. Inst. 4, 14, pr.
  • REPLICATION
    In pleading. A reply made by the plaintiff in an action to the defendant's plea, or in a suit in chancery to the defendant's answer. General and special. In equity practice, a general replication is a general denial of the truth of defendant's plea or answer, and of tbe sufficiency More...
Showing 11976 of 14636