Recognition of belligerency.

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cordance by a foreign government of belligerent rights to another mass or body of people engaged in civil war, by which such people are granted the rights of civilized warfare and assume the burdens thereof. See 25 Fed. (U. S.) 408. Recognitors. Jurors impaneled on an assize. See 17 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 174.

Recognizance. An obligation of rec

ord. See 37 Fed. (U. S.) 470, 2 L. R. A. 229. A bond. See 70 Conn. 557, 40 Atl. 531. The verdict of an assize.

Reconventio. (Civil Law) A crossdemand.

Reconvention. A statutory crossdemand more extensive than either setoff or recoupment. See 132 U. S. 531, 33 L. Ed. 450, 10 Sup. Ct. Rep. 166. See, also, Setoff; Recoupment.

Recoop. Same as Recoupe.

RECORD

Record. That on which a cause is submitted to an appellate court, and may include the transcript of all papers on file in the case and all entries in the record book, but not the evidence. See 143 Iowa, 578, 21 Ann. Cas. 231, 121 N. W. 685. A written history of the proceedings in a cause from the beginning to the end. See 147 U. S. 695, 37 L. Ed. 335, 13 Sup. Ct. Rep. 479. To recite; to repeat; to transcribe. See 126 Ala. 425, 85 Am. St. Rep. 42, 51 L. R. A. 396, 28 South. 497. To file for record in a public office where the document is entitled to be recorded. See 1 Rand. (Va.) 102. See, also, Court of record; Public record.

Record, Conveyance by. See Con

veyance by record.

Record, Debt of. See Debt of record.

Record of nisi prius. A transcript

of the pleadings and the issue. Record title. A title appearing by the recorded conveyances to be valid.

Record, Trial by. See Trial by record.

Recorda sunt vestigia vetustatis et veritatis. Records are the vestiges of posterity and truth. Recordari. A substitute for an appeal from a judgment of a court not of record, where the appeal has been lost by fraud or accident. See 64 N. C. 262.

Recourse. Recaption.

Recover. To acquire by litigation;

to receive; to come into possession of. See 254 Ill. 524, Ann. Cas. 1913C, 65, 40 L. R. A. (N. S.) 529, 98 N. E. 963. Recoverable. Susceptible of being regained. See 50 C. C. A. 260, 55 L. R. A. 344, 112 Fed. 311. Recoveree. One who suffered a common recovery. See Common recovery.

Recoverer. A demandant who has recovered a judgment in a common recovery.

Recovery. The award of a judg ment in one's favor. See, also, Common recovery.

Recto de dote. See De recto de dote.

Recto de rationabili parte. See De rationabili parte.

Recto patens. See De recto patens. Recto sur disclaimer. An old writ which the lord had against his tenant upon the latter's disclaimer. See Disclaimer of tenure. Rector. A church officer who presided over a parsonage. Rector provinciae. A Roman provincial governor.

Rectoral tithes. Same as Great tithes.

Rectory. A glebe, tithes and oblations established for the maintenance of a parson or rector. See 13 U. S. 292, 3 L. Ed. 735. Rectum. Right.

Rectum esse. To be right.

Rectum ragare.

REDDITUS

the judgment of a court of a thing wrongfully extorted or detained. Recuperatores. Roman judges. Recurrendum est ad extraordinarium quando non valet ordinarium. Recourse must be had to the extraordinary when the ordinary does not succeed.

Recurrent insanity. Insanity which returns from time to time. See 22 Tex. App. 279, 58 Am. Rep. 638, 3 S. W. 539.

Recusable. See Irrecusable. Recusant. One who refused to admit the ecclesiastical supremacy of the king or to attend the English church.

Recusatio testis. (Civil Law) The rejection of a witness.

Recusation. An exception to the qualification of a judge to try the cause or to that of a witness to testify.

Red book of the exchequer. A very old record of the exchequer. Red tape. Order carried to fastidious excess. See 55 Ga. 431. Reddendo singula singulis. Each word should be interpreted distributively. See 101 Va. 537, 63 L. R. A. 920, 44 S. E. 904. Reddendum. The clause in a deed or other conveyance whereby the grantor creates a reservation in himself. See Reservation.

To return; to render. Reddidit se. An indorsement on a bail piece when the proper officer has certified that the defendant is in custody. Redditarium.

Reddition. tion.

Rent.

A surrender; a restora

Redditus siccus. Same as Reditus siccus.

REDEEM

Redeem. To purchase back; to retain, as mortgaged property, by paying what is due; to receive back by paying the obligation. See 47 Ohio St. 141, 24 N. E. 496. Redelivery bond. A bond filed by a defendant in an attachment or a replevin case to obtain the release of his property from the custody of the officer pending the action. See 24 Or. 198, 33 Pac. 563. Redemption. A redeeming. See Redeem; Equity of redemption; Right of redemption.

Redemption, Equity of. See Equity of redemption.

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Redemptioner. One who holds right of redemption. See Right of redemption.

Redemptiones. Redemptions; ransomings; briberies; heavy fines. Red-handed. In the act of committing the crime.

Redhibition. (Civil Law) The return of a damaged article after purchase.

Redhibitory defect. Such a defect in the article as would warrant the vendee in returning it. Redhibitory vice. Same as Redhibitory defect.

Rediscounted note. One held by a bank, which it indorses and procures another bank to discount. See 41 C. C. A. (U. S.) 652, 101 Fed. 746.

Redisseisin. A disseisor's repeated disseisin.

Reditu. Rents; revenue; income. Reditus albi. White rents, which

Redmen. Tenants who rendered customary service of riding with or for the lord.

Redobatores. Thieves who dyed cloth to conceal their larceny of it. Redraft. The drawing of a new bill of exchange on the drawer or indorser of a protested one by the holder of the latter bill.

Redraw. To make a redraft. Redress. Remedy; indemnity; reparation.

Redubbers. Same as Redobatores. Reduce to possession. To change a chose in action into a tangible possession. redundancy. Needless repetition; superfluity. See 58 Wis. 666, 17 N. W. 300.

Re-enter. To make or effect a reentry.

Re-entry. The resumption of possession pursuant to a right reserved when the former possession was parted with. See 169 N. Y. 381, 62 N. E. 425. See Writ of Entry. Reeve. See Borough-reeve; Shirereeve; Tithing-reeve.

Re-exchange. The expense incurred by a bill of exchange being dishonored in a foreign country, in which it was payable, and returned to the country in which it was made or indorsed and there taken up. See 5 Me. 174.

Refalo. Same as Re. fa. lo. Refection. Restoration; restitution. Refer. To submit a cause to a reference. See Reference. See, also, 22 Me. 34.

REFEREE

Referee. An officer of the court appointed for a specific purpose, as to take testimony. See 1 S. D. 182, 46 N. W. 193.

Referee in bankruptcy. A judicial officer with jurisdiction to hear and determine bankruptcy causes. Referee in case of need. A person

named by the drawer or indorser of a bill to whom the holder may resort in case of need. Reference. The sending of any mat

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ter by the court of chancery to a master, or by a law court to a prothonotary, to examine it. 7 Ind. 49. Referendarius.

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Roman officer who laid the causes of petitioners before the emperor. Referendo singula singulis. The words or expressions should be construed distributively. Referendum. An ambassador's submission to his government of a proposition in reference to which he requires further authority in order to act; the submission to popular vote of a proposed measure to become a law if ratified at the election.

Refinement. Verbiage in an indict

ment which sets forth what is not essential to the constitution of the offense. See 24 N. C. 372. Reform. To exercise the power of the court in reducing an instrument to the terms agreed upon by the parties. See 70 Vt. 487, 41 Atl. 437.

Reform school. See Reformatory. Reformation. The equitable remedy of correcting a written instrument which fails to express the real agreement of the parties. See 76 Wis. 66, 44 N. W. 839.

Reformatory. A substitute for a jail or penitentiary for the punishment and reformation of the

REGE

youth of both sexes who have committed minor offenses. See 105 Tenn. 399, 58 S. W. 483. Refresh the memory. To refer to something connected with the subject matter in order to bring it back to the mind of the witness. Refresher. One of a series of fees paid to a barrister at intervals during the progress of a litigation. Refuge. A place to which a fugi

tive from justice has fled. See 25 Tex. App. 372, 8 Am. St. Rep. 440, 8 S. W. 645.

Reg. lib. The Register Book of the English chancery court.

Reg. Orig. The register of original writs.

Regal fishes. Same as Royal fishes. Regalia. (Spanish) The right of

a sovereign over anything which a subject has a right or property or propriedad. See 15 Cal. 530. Regalia majora. Royal prerogatives inseparable from sovereignty. See 1 Bl. Comm. 241.

Regalia minora. Royal prerogative of collecting revenue. See 1 Bl. Comm. 241.

Regard. See Court of regard. Regardant. Annexed to the manor. See 2 Bl. Comm. 93.

Rege inconsulto. A writ to stay proceedings which might affect the king's interests, until he could be advised.