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  • REVESTIRE
    In old European law. To return or resign an Investiture, seisin, or, possession that has been received; to reinvest; to re-enfeoff. Spelman.
  • REVIEW
    A reconsideration; second view or examination;' revision; consideration for purposes of correction. Used especially of tbe examination of a cause by an appellate court, and of a second investigation of a proposed public road by a jury of viewers. See Weehawken Wharf Go. v. Knickerbocker Coal Co., 25 Misc. Rep. More...
  • REVILING CHURCH ORDINANCES
    An offense against religion punishable in England by flue and imprisonment, 4 Steph-.1
  • REVISE
    To review, re-examine. . for correction; to go over a thing for the purpose) of. amending, correcting, rearranging-; or otherrwise. Be improving it; as, to revise statutes or a judgment Casey v. Harmed, 5 Iowa 12; Vinsant v. Knox, 27 Ark. 272; Falconer v. Robinson, 46 Ala. .849.
  • REVISED STATUTES
    A body of statutes, which have been revised;, collected;' arranged in order, and re-enacted as. a whole. This is the legal title of the collections of compiled laws of several of the states, and also of the United States.; Such a :volume is, usually cited as "|tev. Stat," "(tev> SU" More...
  • REVISING ASSESSORS
    In English Law. Two officers elected by the burgesses ot non-parllanientary municipal boroughs, the purpose of assisting the mayor In revising the parish burgess. Wharton.
  • REVISING BARRISTERS
    In English law. Barristers appointed to revise the list of voters for county and borough members of parliament, and who hold courts for that purpose throughout the county. -Revising barristers' courts. In English law. Courts held in the autumn throughout the country, to revise the list of voters for county More...
  • REVIVAL
    The process of renewing the operative force of a judgment which has remained dormant or unexecuted for so long a time that execution cannot be issued upon it without new process to reanimate it. Sep Brier v. Traders' Nat. Bank, 24 Wash. 605,' 64 Pac. 831i Havens v. Sea Shore More...
  • REVIVE
    To renew, revivify ; to mate one's self liable for a debt barred by the statute of limitations by acknowledging it or for a matrimonial offense, once condoned, by committing another. See Lindsay v. Lyman 37. Iowa, 207.
  • REVIVOR, BILL OF
    In equity, practice. A bill filed for the purpose of reviving or calling into operation the proceedings in a suit when, from some circumstance, (as the death of the plaintiff,) the suit had abated.
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