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  • 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...
  • REPLY
    In its general sense, a reply is what the plaintiff, petitioner, or other person who has instituted a proceeding says In answer to the defendant's case. Sweet. On trial or argnment. When a case is tried or argued in court, the speech or argument of the plaintiff in answer to More...
  • REPONE
    In Scotch practice. To replace; to restore to a former state or right. 2 Alls. Crim. Pr. 351.
  • REPORT
    An official or formal statement of facts or proceedings. In practice. The formal statement in writing made to a court by a master in chancery, a clerk, or referee, as the result of his inquiries into some matter referred to him by the court. The name is also applied (usually More...
  • REPORTER
    A person who reports the decisions upon questions of law In the cases adjudged in the several courts of law and equity. Wharton.
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