To decompile or disassemble a product or an invention into its basic component parts. With regard to software, this is a conversion of object (machine) code into the source code or other format so that is capable to be manipulated. … [Read more...] about REVERSE ENGINEER
REVERSIBLE ERROR
A legal error or mistake that is made at trial that is of such substantial significance that the appellate court is compelled to reverse judgment. … [Read more...] about REVERSIBLE ERROR
REVE MOTE
In Saxon law. The court of the reve, reeve, or shire reeve. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 6. … [Read more...] about REVE MOTE
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. … [Read more...] about REVEL
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 in charge on the account of the reve or bailiff of the manor. Spel. Feuds, c. 24. … [Read more...] about REVELAND