Legal Term Dictionary

Rescue. The taking back by force goods which had been taken under a distress, or the violently taking away a man who la under arrest, and setting him at liberty, or otherwise procuring his escape, are both so denominated. This was also the name of a writ which lay in More...

Rescue. The taking back by force goods which had been taken under a distress, or the violently taking away a man who la under arrest, and setting him at liberty, or otherwise procuring his escape, are both so denominated. This was also the name of a writ which lay in cases of rescue. Co. Litt 160; 3 BL Comm. 146; Fitzh. Nat Brev. 100; 6 Mees. & W. 564. Less...

In canon law. 'A term including any form of apostolical letter emanating from the pope. The answer of the pope in writing. Diet. Droit Can. In the civil law. A species of imperial constitutions, being the answers of the prince in individual cases, chiefly given in response to inquiries by More...

In canon law. 'A term including any form of apostolical letter emanating from the pope. The answer of the pope in writing. Diet. Droit Can. In the civil law. A species of imperial constitutions, being the answers of the prince in individual cases, chiefly given in response to inquiries by parties in relation to litigated suits, or to inquiries by the judges, and which became rules for future litigated or doubtful legal questions. Mackeld. Rom. Law. At common law. A counterpart, duplicate, or copy. In American law. A written order from the court to the clerk, giving directions concerning the further disposition of a case. Pub. St Mass. p. 1295. The written statement by an appellate court of its decision in a case, with the reasons therefor, sent down to the trial court Less...

In French law. A rescription is a letter by which one requests some one to pay a certain sum of money, or to account for him to a third person for it. Poth. Cont de Change, no. 225.

In French law. A rescription is a letter by which one requests some one to pay a certain sum of money, or to account for him to a third person for it. Poth. Cont de Change, no. 225. Less...

Lat In the civil law. A species of imperial constitution, in the form of an answer to some application or petition; a rescript Calvin.

Lat In the civil law. A species of imperial constitution, in the form of an answer to some application or petition; a rescript Calvin. Less...

The act of forcibly and intentionally, delivering a person from lawful arrest or imprisonment, and setting him at liberty. 4 Bl. Comm. 131; Code Ga. ? 4478; Robinson v. State, 82 Ga. 535, 9 S. E. 528. The unlawfully or forcibly taking buck goods which have been taken under a More...

The act of forcibly and intentionally, delivering a person from lawful arrest or imprisonment, and setting him at liberty. 4 Bl. Comm. 131; Code Ga. ? 4478; Robinson v. State, 82 Ga. 535, 9 S. E. 528. The unlawfully or forcibly taking buck goods which have been taken under a distress for rent damage feasant, etc. Hamlin v. Mack, 33 Mich. 106. In admiralty and maritime law. The deliverance of property taken as prize, out of the hands of the captors, either when the captured party retake it by their own efforts, or when, pending the pursuit or struggle, the party about to be overpowered receive reinforcements, and so escape capture. Less...

In old English law. A rescuer; one who commits a rescous. Cro. Jac 419; Cowell.

In old English law. A rescuer; one who commits a rescous. Cro. Jac 419; Cowell. Less...

L. Fr. Rescelt; receipt; the receiving or harboring a felon, after the commission of a crime. Britt c 23.

L. Fr. Rescelt; receipt; the receiving or harboring a felon, after the commission of a crime. Britt c 23. Less...

In English law. The second sealing of a writ by a master so aa to continue it or to cure it of an irregularity.

In English law. The second sealing of a writ by a master so aa to continue it or to cure it of an irregularity. Less...

Reserving. In old conveyancing. An apt word of reserving a rent. Co. Litt 47a. Reservatio non debet esse de pronouis ipsis, quia ea oonoednntnr, sed do reditu novo extra pronoun. A reservation ought not to be of the profits themselves, because they are granted, but from the new rent, apart More...

Reserving. In old conveyancing. An apt word of reserving a rent. Co. Litt 47a. Reservatio non debet esse de pronouis ipsis, quia ea oonoednntnr, sed do reditu novo extra pronoun. A reservation ought not to be of the profits themselves, because they are granted, but from the new rent, apart from the profits. Co. Litt 142. Less...

A clause in a deed or other instrument of conveyance by which tbe grantor creates, and reserves to himself, some right, Interest, or profit in the estate granted, which had no previous existence as such, but is first called into being by the instrument reserving it; such aa rent, or More...

A clause in a deed or other instrument of conveyance by which tbe grantor creates, and reserves to himself, some right, Interest, or profit in the estate granted, which had no previous existence as such, but is first called into being by the instrument reserving it; such aa rent, or an easement Stephana v. Reynolds, 6 N. Y. 458; In re Narragansett Indians, 20 R. I. 715, 40 Atl. 347; Miller v. Latham, 44 Vt 435; Engel v. Ayer, 85 Me. 448, 27 Atl. 352; Smith v. Cornell University, 21 Misc. Rep. 220, 45 N. Y. Supp. 640; Wilson v. Hlgbee (C. C.) 62 Fed. 726; Hurd v. Curtis, 7 Mete. (Mass.) 110. A 'reservation" should be carefully distinguished from an "exception," the difference between the two being this: By an exception, the grantor withdraws from the effect of the grant some part of the thing itself which is in eue, and included under the terms of the grant, as one acre from a certain field, a shop or mill standing within the limits of the granted premises, and the like; whereas, a reservation/ though made to the grantor, lessor, or the one creating the estate, is something arising out of the thing granted not then in esse, or some new thing created or reserved, issuing or coming out of the thing granted, and not a part of the thing itself, nor of anything issuing out of another thing. 3 Washb. Real Prop. 645. In pnblio land laws of tbe United States, a reservation is a tract of land, more or less considerable in extent, which is by public authority withdrawn from sale or settlement and appropriated to specific public uses; such as parks, military posts, Indian lands, etc Jackson v. Wilcox, 2 I1L 344; Meehah v. Jones (C. C.) 70 Fed. 455; Cahn v. Barnes (C. C.) 5 Fed. 331. In praetiee, the reservation of a point of, law is the act of the trial court in setting it aside for future consideration, allowing the, trial to proceed meanwhile as.if the question had been settled one way, but subject to alteration of the judgment in case the court' in banc should decide it differently. Less...