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REDHIBITORY DEFECT (OR VICE)

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In the civil law. A defect in an article sold, for which the seller may be compelled to take it back; a defect against which the seller is bound to warrant Poth. Cont Sale, no. 208. … [Read more...]

REDUCTION OF SENTENCE

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When a criminal sentence is reduced in severity such as reducing the number of years in prison. … [Read more...]

REDIDIT SE

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Eng. practice. He surrendered himself. This is endorsed on the bail piece when a certificate has been made by the proper officer that the defendant is in custody. … [Read more...]

REDUNDANCY

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This is the fault of introducing superfluous matter into a legal Instrument; particularly the insertion in a pleading of matters foreign, extraneous, and irrelevant to tfcat which It is intended to answer. Matter introduced in an answer, or pleading, which is foreign to the bill or articles. 2. In the case of Dysart v. Dysart, 3 Curt. Ecc. R. 543, in giving the judgment of the … [Read more...]

REDISSEISIN

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In old English law. A second disseisin of a person of the same tenements, and by the same disseisor, by whom he was before disseised. 8 Bl. Comm. 188. … [Read more...]

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