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RELATIONSHIP

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The state of having dealings and communications with another person. … [Read more...]

REHEARING

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In equity practice. A second hearing of a cause, for which a party who is dissatisfied with the decree entered on the former hearing may apply by petition. 3 Bl. Comm. 453. See Belmont v. Erie R. Co., 52 Barb. (N. Y.) 651; Emerson v. Da vies, 8 Fed. Cas. 626; Read v. Patterson, 44 N. J. Eq. 211, 14 Atl. 490, 6 Am. St Rep. 877. … [Read more...]

REI INTERVENTUS

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Latin: Things intervening ; that is, things done by one of the parties to a contract, in the faith of its validity, and with the assent of the other party, and which have so affected his situation that the other will not be allowed to repudiate his obligation, although originally it was imperfect, and he might have renounced It 1 Bell, Comm. 328, 329. Rei turpis nnllnm mandatnm … [Read more...]

REIF

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A robbery. Cowell. … [Read more...]

REIMBURSE

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The primary, meaning of this word is "to pay back." Philadelphia Trust, etc., Co. v. Audenreld, 83 Pa. 264. It means to make return or restoration of an equivalent for something paid, expended, or lost; to indemnify, or make whole. … [Read more...]

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