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RED-HANDED

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With the marks of crime fresh on him. … [Read more...]

REDUCE

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In Scotch law. To rescind or annul. … [Read more...]

REDHIBERE

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Latin: In the civil law, To have again; to have back; to cause a seller to have again what he had before. … [Read more...]

REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM

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Latin for reduction to the point of being absurd. An argument that attacks a proposition by pointing out the absurd conclusion to be reached. … [Read more...]

REDHIBITION

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civil law, and in Louisiana. The avoidance of a sale on account of some vice or defect in the thing sold, which renders it absolutely useless, or its use so inconvenient and imperfect, that it must be supposed that the buyer would not have purchased it, had he known of the vice. Civ. Code of Lo. 2496. Redhibition is also the name of an action which the purchaser of a defective … [Read more...]

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