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  • RESOLUTION
    The determination or decision, in regard to its opinion or intention, of a deliberative or legislative body, public assembly, town council, board of directors or the like. Also a motion or formal proposition offered for adoption by such a body. In legislative praotioe. The term is usually employed to denote More...
  • RESOLUTIVE
    In Scotch conveyancing. Having the quality or effect of resolving or extinguishing a right. Bell. Resolnto jure concedentis resolvitur jus ooncessnm. The right of the grantor being extinguished, the right granted is extinguished. Mackeld. Rom. Law, 179; Broom, Max. 467.
  • RESOLUTORY CONDITION
    See CONDITION.
  • RESORT
    v. To go back. "It resorted to the line of the mother." Hale, Com. Law.
  • RESORT
    n. A court whose decision is final and without appeal is, in reference to the particular case, said to be a "court of last resort".
  • RESOURCES
    Money or any property that can be converted into supplies; means of raising money or supplies; capabilities of raising wealth or to supply necessary wants; available means or capability of any kind. Ming y. Woolf oik, 3 Mont 380; Sacry v. Lo-bree, 84 Cat 41, 23 Pac. 10&8; Shelby County More...
  • RESPECTU COMPUTI VICECOMITIS HABENDO
    A writ for respiting a sheriff's account addressed to the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Reg. Orig. 13&
  • RESPECTUS
    In old English and Scotch law. Respite; delay; continuance ef time; postponement. Respldendum est judicanti ne quid aut durius ant remisslns eonstitnatnr qnam oausa depose!t; nee enim ant se* veritatis ant dementias gloria aifectanda est. The judge must see that no order be made or judgment given or sentence passed More...
  • RESPITE
    The temporary suspension of the execution of a sentence; a reprieve; a delay, forbearance, or continuation of time. 4 BL Comm. 394; Mishler v. Com., 62 Pa. 55, 1 Am. Rep. 377. Continuance. In English practice, a Jury is said, on the record, to be "respited" till the next term. More...
  • RESPOND
    1. To make or file an answer to a bill, libel, or appeal, in the character of a respondent, (q. v.) 2. To be liable, or answerable; to make satisfaction or amends; as, to "respond in damages."
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