Lat. In the civil law. Restoration or restitution to the previous condition. This was effected by the prtetor on equitable grounds, at the prayer of an Injured party, by rescinding or annulling a contract or transaction valid by the strict law, or annulling a change in the legal condition produced by an omission, and restoring the parties to their previous situation or legal … [Read more...] about RESTITUTIO IN INTEGRUM
RESTRAIN
To limit, confine, abridge, narrow down, or restrict. To prohibit from action; to put compulsion upon; to restrict; to hold or press back. To enjoin, (in equity.) … [Read more...] about RESTRAIN
RESTAURANT
This term, as currently understood, means only, or chiefly, an eating-house; but it has no such fixed and definite legal meaning as necessarily to exclude its being an "inn" in the legal sense. Lewis v. Hitchcock (D. C.) 10 Fed. 4. … [Read more...] about RESTAURANT
RESTATEMENT OF THE LAW
Legal treatises that are well recognized analyses on the law and are given great weight and respect in legal argument. … [Read more...] about RESTATEMENT OF THE LAW
RESTRAINT
Confinement, abridgment, or limitation. Prohibition of action; holding or pressing back from action. Hindrance, confinement, or restriction of liberty. "What, then, according to a common understanding, is the meaning of the term 'restraint?' Does it imply that the limitation, restriction, or confinement must be imposed by those who are in possession of the person or thing which … [Read more...] about RESTRAINT