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  • 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.
  • REPUGNANT
    That which is contrary to what Is stated before, or Insensible. A repugnant condition is void. Repntatio est vulgaris opinio nbi non est Veritas. Et vulgaris opinio est duplex, seil.t Opinio vulgaris orta inter graves et dlseretos homines, et qnst vultum veritatis habet; et opinio tan turn orta inter loves More...
  • REPUTATION
    A person's credit, honor, character, good name. Injuries to one's reputation, which is a personal right, are defamatory and malicious words, libels, and malicious indictments or prosecutions. Reputation of a person is the estimate in which he is held by the public in the place where he is known. Cooper More...
  • REPUTED
    Accepted by general, vulgar, or public opinion. Thus, land may be reputed part of a manor, though not really so, and a certain district may be reputed a parish or a manor, or be a parish or a manor in reputation, although it is in reality no parish or manor More...
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