The act of receiving satisfaction for an injury sustained. … [Read more...]

In old French and Canadian law. Dues payable by a tenant to his lord, not necessarily in money. … [Read more...]

In criminal law. Those who bought stolen cloth and dyed it of another color to prevent its being identified were anciently so called. Cowell; 8 Inst 184. … [Read more...]

construction. By rendering each his own; for example, when two descriptions of property are given together in one mass, both the next of kin and the heir cannot take, unless in cases where a construction can be made reddendo singula singulis, that the next of kin shall take the personal estate aud the heir at law the real estate. Latin: By referring each to each; referring each … [Read more...]

contracts. A word used substantively, and is that clause in a deed by which the grantor reserves something new to himself out of that which he granted before, and thus usually follows the tenendum, and is generally in these words yielding and paying. 2. In every good reddendum or reservation, these things must concur; namely, 1. It must be apt words. 2, It must be of some other … [Read more...]