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  • RETOUR
    In Scotch law. To return a Writ to the office in chancery from which it issued.
  • RETOUR OF SERVICE
    In Scotch law. A certified copy of a verdict establishing the legal character of a party as heir to a decedent
  • RETOUR SANS FRAIS
    Fr. In French law. A formula put upon a bill of exchange to signify that the drawer waives protest, and will not be responsible for costs arising thereon. Arg. Fr. Merc. Law, 573.
  • RETOUR SANS PROTET
    Fr. Return without protest. A request or direction by a drawer of a bill of exchange that, should the bill be dishonored by the drawee, it may be returned without protest.
  • RETRACT
    To take back. To retract an offer is to withdraw it before acceptance, which the offerer may always do.
  • RETRACTATION,
    in probate practice, is a withdrawal of a renunciation, (q. v.)
  • RBTRACTO O TANTEO
    In Spanish law. The right of revoking a contract of sale; the right of redemption of a thing sold. White, New Recop. b. 2, tit 13, c 2, | 4.
  • RETRACTUS AQUAE
    Lat The ebb or return of a tide. Cowell.
  • RETRACTUS FEUDALIS
    L. Lat. In old Scotch law. The power which a superior possessed of paying off a debt due to an ad-Judging creditor, and taking a conveyance to the adjudication. BelL
  • RETRAIT
    Fr. In old French and Canadian law. The taking back of a fief by the seignior, in case of alienation by the vassal. A right of pre-emption by the seignior, in case of sale of the land by the grantee.
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