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  • REPRIEVE
    In criminal law. The withdrawing of a sentence of death for an interval of time, whereby the execution Is suspended. 4 Bl. Comm. 394. And see Butler v. State, 97 Ind 374; Sterling v. Drake, 29 Ohio St 460, 23 Am. Rep. 762; In re Buchanan, 146 N. Y. 264, More...
  • REPRIMAND
    A public and formal censure or severe reproof, administered to a person in fault by his superior officer or by a body to which he belongs. Thus, a member of a legislative body may be reprimanded by the presiding officer, in pursuance of a vote of censure, for improper conduct More...
  • REPRISALS
    The forcibly taking a thing by one nation which belonged to another, in return or satisfaction for an injury committed by the latter on the former. Vattel, b. 2, c 18, s. 342.
  • REPRISES
    In English law. Deductions and duties which are yearly paid out of a manor and lands, aa rent-charge, rent seek, pensions, corrodies, annuities, etc., so that, when the clear yearly value of a manor is spoken of, it is said to be so much per annum ultra reprisas,-besides all reprises. More...
  • REPROBATION
    In ecclesiastical law. The interposition of objections or exceptions; as, to the competency of witnesses, to the due execution of instruments offered in evidence and the like.
  • REPROBATOR, ACTION OF
    In Scotch law. An action or proceeding intended to convict a witness of perjury, to which the witness must be made a party. Belt
  • REP-SILVER
    In old records. Money paid by servile tenants for exemption from the customary duty of reaping for the lord. Cowell.
  • REPUBLIC
    A commonwealth; a form of government which derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the general body of citizens, and in which the executive power is lodged in officers chosen by and representing the people, and holding office for a limited period, or at most during good behavior or More...
  • REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT
    A government in the republican form; a government of the people; a government by representatives chosen by the people. See In re Duncan, 139 U. S. 449, 11 Sup. Ct. 573, 35 It. Ed. 219; Eckerson v. Des Moines, 137 Iowa, 452, 115 N. W. 177; Minor v. Happer-sett, 21 More...
  • REPUBLICATION
    The re-execution or re-establishment by a testator of a will which he had once revoked. A second publication of a will, either expressly or by construction.
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