Legal Term Dictionary

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...

The receiving or harboring an outlawed person. Cowell. -Reset of theft. In Scotch law. The receiving and keeping stolen goods, knowing them to be stolen, with a design of feloniously retaining them from the real owner. Alis. Crim, Law. 328.

The receiving or harboring an outlawed person. Cowell. -Reset of theft. In Scotch law. The receiving and keeping stolen goods, knowing them to be stolen, with a design of feloniously retaining them from the real owner. Alis. Crim, Law. 328. Less...

In Scotch law. A receiver of stolen goods knowing them to have been stolen.

In Scotch law. A receiver of stolen goods knowing them to have been stolen. Less...

Residence, abode, or. continuance.

Residence, abode, or. continuance. Less...