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  • REVE MOTE
    In Saxon law. The court of the reve, reeve, or shire reeve. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 6.
  • REVEL
    A criminal complaint charged that the defendant did "revel, quarrel, commit mischief, and otherwise behave In a disorderly manner." Held, that the word "revel" has a definite meaning; i. e., "to behave in a noisy, boisterous manner, like a bacchanal." In re Began, 12 B. I. 309.
  • REVELAND
    The land which in Domesday Is said to have been "thane-lancd," and afterwards converted into "reveland" It seems to have been land which, having reverted to the king after the death of the thane, who had it for life, was not granted out to any by the king, but rested More...
  • REVELS
    Sports of dancing, masking, etc., formerly used in princes' courts, the inns of court, and noblemen's houses, commonly performed by night o There was an ofticer to order and supervise them, who was entitled 'the master of the revels'. Cowell.
  • REVENDICATION
    In the civil law. dpjfbe right of a vendor to^reclaim goods sold out of the possession of the purchaser, where the price was not paid. Story, Confl. Laws, fr.,401. See Benedict v. Schaettle, 12 Ohio St 520; Ellis v* Davis, 109 U. S. 485, 3 Sup. Ct, 827, 27 L. More...
  • REVENUE
    As applied to the income of a government, this is a broad and general term, including all public moneys which the state collects and receives, from whatever source and in whatever manner. TJ. S. v. Bromley, 12 How. 90, 13 L. Ed. 905; State V; School Fund Com'rs, 4 Kan. More...
  • REVERSAL
    The annulling or making void a judgment on account of some error or irregularityr Usually spoken of the action by an appellate court. In international law. A declaration by Which a sovereign promises that he will observe a certain order or certain conditions, which have been once established, notwithstanding any More...
  • RBVERSE, REVERSED
    A term frequently used in the judgments of an appellate court, In disposing of the case before it. It then means "to set aside; to annul; to va* cate." Lalthe v. McDonald, 7 Kan. 254.
  • REVERSER
    In Scotch law. The proprieter of an estate who grants a wadset (or mortgage) of tils lands/ and who has'a'right', on repayment of the money advanced to him, to be replaced in his right. Bell..
  • REVERSIBLE ERROR
    See ERROR.
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