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  • RESOURCES
    Money or any property that can be converted into supplies; means of raising money or supplies; capabilities of raising wealth or to supply necessary wants; available means or capability of any kind. Ming y. Woolf oik, 3 Mont 380; Sacry v. Lo-bree, 84 Cat 41, 23 Pac. 10&8; Shelby County More...
  • RESPECTU COMPUTI VICECOMITIS HABENDO
    A writ for respiting a sheriff's account addressed to the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Reg. Orig. 13&
  • RESPECTUS
    In old English and Scotch law. Respite; delay; continuance ef time; postponement. Respldendum est judicanti ne quid aut durius ant remisslns eonstitnatnr qnam oausa depose!t; nee enim ant se* veritatis ant dementias gloria aifectanda est. The judge must see that no order be made or judgment given or sentence passed More...
  • RESPITE
    The temporary suspension of the execution of a sentence; a reprieve; a delay, forbearance, or continuation of time. 4 BL Comm. 394; Mishler v. Com., 62 Pa. 55, 1 Am. Rep. 377. Continuance. In English practice, a Jury is said, on the record, to be "respited" till the next term. More...
  • RESPOND
    1. To make or file an answer to a bill, libel, or appeal, in the character of a respondent, (q. v.) 2. To be liable, or answerable; to make satisfaction or amends; as, to "respond in damages."
  • RESPONDE BOOK
    In Scotch practice, A book kept by the directors of chancery, In which are entered all non-entry and relief duties payable by heirs who take precepts from chancery. BelL
  • RESPONDEAT OUSTER
    Upon an issue in law arising upon a dilatory plea, the form of judgment for the plaintiff is that the defendant answer over, which is thence called a judgment of "respondeat ouster." This not being a final judgment, the pleading is resumed, and the action proceeds. Steph. PL 115; 3 More...
  • RESPONDENT
    The party who makes an answer to a bill or other proceeding in chancery. The party who appeals against the judgment of an inferior court is termed the "appellant;" and he who contends against the appeal, the "respondent" The word also denotes the person upon whom an ordinary petition in More...
  • RESPONDENTIA
    The hypothecation of the cargo or goods on board a ship as security for the repayment of a loan, the tenn "bottomry" being confined to hypothecations of the ship herself; but now the term "respondentia" ia seldom used, and the express slon "bottomry" Is generally employed, whether the vessel or More...
  • RESPONDERE NON DEBET
    Lat In pleading. The prayer of a plea where the defendant insists that he ought not to answer, as when he claims a privilege; for example, as being a member of congress or a foreign ambassador. 1 Chit. PI. *433.
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