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  • 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.
  • REPUDIATE
    To put away, reject disclaim, or renounce a right, duty, obligation, or privilege.
  • REPUDIATION
    Rejection; disclaimer; renunciation; the rejection or refusal of an offered or available right or privilege, or of a duty or relation. See Iowa State Sav. Bank v. Black, 91 Iowa, 490, 59 N. W. 283; Daley v. Saving Ass'n, 178 Mass. 13, 59 N. E. 452. The refusal on the More...
  • REFUDIUM
    Lat In Roman law. A breaking off of the contract of espousals, or of a marriage intended to be solemnized. Sometimes translated "divorce;" but this was not the proper sense. Dig. 50, 16, 191.
  • REPUGNANCY
    An Inconsistency, opposition, or contrariety between two or more clauses of the same deed or contract, or between two or more material allegations of the 6ame pleading. See Lehman v. U. S., 127 Fed. 45, 61 C C. A. 577; Swan v. U. S^ 8 Wyo. 151, 9 Pac. 931.
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