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  • 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.
  • RETINENTIA
    A retinue, or persons retained by ai prince or nobleman. Cowell.
  • RETIRE
    As applied to bills of exchange, this word is. ambiguous.. It is comnioilty used of an indorser who takes up a bill by handing the .amount to a transferee, * after which the indorser holds the instrument with* all his remedies intact But it is sometimes vsJed of an: acceptor, More...
  • RETONSOR
    L. Lat In old English law. A clipper of money. Fleta, lib. 1, c 20, | 122.
  • RETORNA BREVIUM
    The return of writs. The indorsement by a sheriff or other officer of his doings upon a writ
  • RETORNO HABENBO
    A writ that lies for the distrainor of goods (when, on replevin brought, he has proved his distress to be a lawful one) against him who was so distrained, to have them returned to him according to law, together with damages and costs. Brown.
  • RETORSION
    In international law. A species of retaliation, which takes place where a government, whose citizens are subjected to severe and stringent regulation or fearsh treatment by a foreign government employs measures of equal severity and harshness upon the subjects of the latter government found within its dominions. See Vattel, lib. More...
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