The admission or receiving of a third person to plead his right in a cause formerly commenced between two other persons; as, when an action is brought against a tenant for life or years, or any other particular tenant, and he makes default, in such case the reversioner may move that he may be received to defend his right, and to plead with the demandant. … [Read more...] about RESCEIT OR RECEIT
RESCIND
See rescission. To abrogate, annul, avoid, or cancel a contract; particularly, nullifying a contract by the act of a party. … [Read more...] about RESCIND
RESCISSIO
Latin: In the civil law. An annuling; avoiding, or making void; abrogation; rescission. Cod. 4, 44 … [Read more...] about RESCISSIO
RES PERIT DOMINO
The thing is lost to the owner. This phrase is used to express that when a thing is lost or destroyed, it is lost to the person who was the owner of it at the time. For example, an article is sold; if the seller have perfected the title of the buyer so that it is his, and it be destroyed, it is the buyer's loss; but if, on the contrary, something remains to be done before the … [Read more...] about RES PERIT DOMINO
RES UNIVERSATIS
Those things which belong to cities or municipal corporations are so called; they belong so far to the public that they cannot be appropriated to private use; such as public squares, market houses, streets, and the like. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 446. … [Read more...] about RES UNIVERSATIS