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  • RESET
    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.
  • RESETTER
    In Scotch law. A receiver of stolen goods knowing them to have been stolen.
  • RESIANCE
    Residence, abode, or. continuance.
  • RESIANT
    In old English law. Continually dwelling or abiding in a place; resident ; a resident Kitchin, 33; Cowell. -Resiant rolls. Those containing the re-si ants in a tithing, etc., which are to be called over by the steward on holding courts leet.
  • RESIDENCE
    Living or dwelling in a certain place permanently or for a considerable length of time. The place where a man makes his home, or where he dwells permanently or for an extended period of time. The difference between a residence and a domicile may not be capable of easy definition; More...
  • RESIDENT
    One who has his residence in a place. "Resident" and "inhabitant" are distinguishable in meaning. The word "inhabitant" implies a more fixed and permanent abode than does "resident;" and a resident may not be entitled to all the privileges or subject to all the duties of an inhabitant Frost v. More...
  • RESIDUAL
    Relating to the residue; relating to the part remaining.
  • RESIDUARY
    Pertaining to the residue; constituting the residue; giving or bequeathing the residue; receiving or entitled to the residue. Riker v. Cornwell, 113 N. Y. 115, 20 N. E. 602; Kerr v. Dougherty, 79 N. Y. 359 ; Lamb v. Lamb, 60 Hun, 577. 14 N. Y. Supp. 206. -Residuary account. More...
  • RESIDUE
    The surplus of a testator's estate remaining after all the debts and particular legacies have been discharged 2 BL Comm. 514. The "residue" of a testator's estate and effects means what is left after all liabilities are discharged, and* all the purposes of the testator, specincally expressed in his will, More...
  • RESIDUUM
    That which remains after any process of separation or deduction; a residue or balance.- That which remains of a decedent's estate, after debts have been paid and legacies deducted. See Parsons v. Colgate (C. C.) 15 Fed. 603; Robinson v. Millard, 133 Mass. 239; United States Trust Co. v. Black, More...
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