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  • REST (NOUN)
    n. Rests are periodical balancings of an account, (particularly in mortgage and trust accounts,) made for tbe purpose of converting Interest into principal, and charging the party liable thereon with compound interest Mozley & Whitley.
  • RESTAMPING WRIT
    Passing it a second time through the proper office, whereupon it receives a new stamp. 1 Chit Arch. Pr. 212.
  • RESTAUR, OR RESTOR
    The remedy or recourse which marine underwriters have against each other, according to the date of their assurances, or against the master, If the loss arise through his default, as through ill loading, want of caulking, or want of having the vessel tight; also the remedy or recourse a person More...
  • RESTAURANT
    This term, as currently understood, means only, or chiefly, an eating-house; but it has no such fixed and definite legal meaning as necessarily to exclude its being an "inn" in the legal sense. Lewis v. Hitchcock (D. C.) 10 Fed. 4.
  • RESTITUTIO IN INTEGRUM
    Lat. In the civil law. Restoration or restitution to the previous condition. This was effected by the prtetor on equitable grounds, at the prayer of an Injured party, by rescinding or annulling a contract or transaction valid by the strict law, or annulling a change in the legal condition produced More...
  • RESTITUTION
    In maritime law. When a portion of a ship's cargo Is lost by jettison, and the remainder saved, and the articles so lost are replaced by a general contribution among the owners of the cargo, this is called "restitution." In practice. The return of something to the owner of it More...
  • RESTITUTIONE EXTRACTI AB ECLESSIAA
    A writ to restore a man to the church, which he had recovered for his sanctuary, being suspected of felony. Reg. Orig. 69.
  • RESTRAIN
    To limit, confine, abridge, narrow down, or restrict. To prohibit from action; to put compulsion upon; to restrict; to hold or press back. To enjoin, (in equity.)
  • RESTITUTIONE TEMPORALIUM
    A writ addressed to the sheriff, to restore the temporalities of a bishopric to the bishop elected and confirmed. Fitzh. Nat. Brev.
  • RESTRAINING ORDER
    An order in the nature of an Injunction. See OBDER.
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