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REGULAE GENERALES

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Lat. General rules, which the courts promulgate from time to time for the regulation of their practice. … [Read more...]

REINSTATE

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To restore to a prior status or position that was held before. For example, to reinstate someone suspended from duty back into their former position. To place again in a former state, condition, or office; to restore to a state or position from which the object or person had been removed See Collins v. U. S., 15 Ct CI. 22. … [Read more...]

REGULAR

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That which is usual, customary, routine, ordinary, commonplace. According to rule; as distinguished from that which violates the rule or follows no rule. According to rule; as opposed to that which constitutes an exception to the rule or is not within the rule. See Zulich v. Bowman, 42 Pa. 87; Myers v. Rasback, 4 How. Prac. (N. Y.) 85. As to regular "Clergy," "Deposit," … [Read more...]

REINSURANCE

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A contract of reinsurance is one by which an Insurer procures a third person to Insure him against loss or liability by reason of such original Insurance. Civ. Code Cal. … [Read more...]

REGULAR AND IRREGULAR PROCESS

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Regular process is that which has been lawfully issued by a court or magistrate, having competent jurisdiction. Irregular process is that which has been illegally issued. 2. When the process is regular, and the defendant has been damnified, as in the case of a malicious arrest, his remedy is by an action on the case, and not trespass: when it is irregular, the remedy is by … [Read more...]

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