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  • RESUMPTION
    In old English law. The taking again into the king's hands such lands or tenements as before, upon false suggestion, or other error, he had delivered to the heir, or granted by letters patent to any man. Cowell.
  • RESURRENDER
    Where copyhold land has been mortgaged by surrender, and the mortgagee has been admitted, then, on the mortgage debt being paid off, the mortgagor Is entitled to have the land reconvened to him, by the mortgagee surrendering it to the lord to his use. This is called a "resurren-der." 2 More...
  • RETAIL
    To sell by small parcels, and pot in the gross.- To sell in small quantities. State v. Lowenhaught,. 11 Lea (Tenn.) 13; Bridges v. State, 37 Ark. 224; McArthur v. State, 69 6a. 444; Com. v. Kimball, 7 Mete. (Mass.) 308. -Retailer of merchandise. A merchant who buys, articles in More...
  • RETAIN
    In practice. To engage the Services of an attorney or counsellor to manage a cause. See RETAINER. 2. -Retaining a cause. In English practice. The act of one of the divisions of the high court pf justice in retaining jurisdiction of a cause wrongly brought in that division instead of More...
  • RETAINER
    1. The right of retainer is the right which the executor or administrator of a deceased person has to retain oujt pt the assets sufficient to pay any debt due to him from the deceased in priority to the other creditors whose debts are of equal degree* 3 Steph. Comm. More...
  • RETAKING
    The taking one's 'goods, from another, who without right has takes possession thereof.
  • RETALIATION
    The lex talionis.
  • RETALLIA
    In old English law. Retail; the cutting up again, or division of a commodity into smaller parts.
  • RETENEMENTUM
    In old English law. Restraint; detainment; withholding.
  • RETENTION
    In Scotch law. A species of Hen; the right to retain possession of a chattel until the lienor is satisfied of his claim upon the article itself or its owner.
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