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REPUDIATE
To put away, reject disclaim, or renounce a right, duty, obligation, or privilege.

To put away, reject disclaim, or renounce a right, duty, obligation, or privilege. Less...
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...

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 part of a state or gov* ernment to pay its debts, or its declaration that its obligations, previously contracted, *re no longer regarded by it as of binding force. In the civil law. The casting off or putting away of a woman betrothed; also, but less usually, of a wife; divorcement. . In ecclesiastieal law. The refusal to accept a benefice which has been conferred upon the party repudiating. Less...
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.

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. Less...
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.

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. Less...
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...

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 et vnlgares bo-mines, absque speeie veritatis. Reputa^ tion Is common opinion where there is not truth. And common opinion is of two kinds, to-wit: Common reputation arising among grave and sensible men, and which has the appearance of truth; and mere opinion arising among foolish and ignorant men, without any appearance of truth. 4 Coke, 107. Less...
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...

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 v. Greeley, 1 Denio (N. Y.) 347. In the law of evidence, matters of public and general interest, such as the boundaries of counties or towns, rights of common, claims of highway, etc., are allowed to be proved by general reputation; e. g. by the declaration of deceased persons made ante litem motamf by old documents, etc., notwithstanding the general rule against sec* ondary evidence. Best, Ev. 632. Less...
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...

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 at all. Brown. -Reputed owner, see OWNER. Less...
REQUEST
An asking or petition; the' expression of a desire to some person for something to be granted or done; particularly for the payment of a debt or performance of a contract. The two words, "request" and "require," as used in notices to creditors to present claims apainst an estate, are More...

An asking or petition; the' expression of a desire to some person for something to be granted or done; particularly for the payment of a debt or performance of a contract. The two words, "request" and "require," as used in notices to creditors to present claims apainst an estate, are of the same origin, and virtually synonymous. Prentice v. Whitney, 8 Hun (N. Y.) 300. In pleading. The statement in the plaintiff's declaration that the particular payment or performance, the failure of which constitutes the cause of action, was duly requested or demanded of the defendant. -Request, letters of. In English law. Many suits are brought before the Dean of the Arches as original judge, the cognisance of which properly belongs to inferior jurisdictions within the province, but in respect of which the inferior judge has waived his jurisdiction under a certain form of proceeding known in the canon law by the denomination of "letters of request'* 3 Steph; Comm. 306.-Request note. In English law. A note requesting permission to remove dutiable goods from one place to another without paying the excise.-Requests, courts of. See COUBTS or REQUESTS.-Special request. A request actually made, at a particular time and place. This term is nsed in contradistinction to a general request, which need not state the time when nor place where made. 3 Bouv. Inst no. 2843. Less...
REQUISITION
A demand in writing, or formal request or requirement Bain v. State, 61 Ala. 79; Atwood v. Charlton, 21 R. I. 568, 45 Aa 580. In international law. The formal demand by one government upon another, or by the governor of one of the United States upon the governor of More...

A demand in writing, or formal request or requirement Bain v. State, 61 Ala. 79; Atwood v. Charlton, 21 R. I. 568, 45 Aa 580. In international law. The formal demand by one government upon another, or by the governor of one of the United States upon the governor of a sister state, of tbe surrender of a fugitive criminal. In Scotch law. A demand made by s creditor that a debt be paid or an obligation fulfilled. Bell. -Requisitions on title, in English conveyancing, are written inquiries made by the solicitor of an intending purchaser of land, or of any estate or interest therein, and addressed to the vendor's solicitor, in respect of some apparent insufficiency in the abstract of title. Mosley & Whitley. Less...
REREFIEFS
In Scotch law. Inferior fiefs; portions of a fief or feud granted out to inferior tenants. 2 Bl. Comm. 57. Rerum ordo eonfundltur si unieuiqno Jnrisdietio non servetnr. 4 Inst. Proem. The order of things is confounded if every one preserve not his jurisdiction. Rerum progress us ostendunt multa, qua More...

In Scotch law. Inferior fiefs; portions of a fief or feud granted out to inferior tenants. 2 Bl. Comm. 57. Rerum ordo eonfundltur si unieuiqno Jnrisdietio non servetnr. 4 Inst. Proem. The order of things is confounded if every one preserve not his jurisdiction. Rerum progress us ostendunt multa, qua in initio prsecaveri sen prsBviderl non pounnt. 6 Coke, 40. The progress of events shows many things which, at the beginning, could not be guarded against or foreseen. onanun quilibet est moderator et arbiter. Every one is the regulator and disposer of his own property. Co. Litt 223a. Less...

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