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Usually to explain a process in litigation where evidence that is not relevant to a case that should remain private is obfuscated from view of the opposing party. For example, a private memo containing confidential business secrets that are not relevant to the case may be blocked (or blackened) from view with the remaining relevant portion of the memo remaining readable. … [Read more...] about REDACTION

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...] about REDDENDO SINGULA SINGULIS

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...] about REDDENDUM

Latin: Giving the reason of his knowledge. In Scotch practice. A formal phrase used in depositions, preceding the statement of the reason of the witness' knowledge. 2 How. State Tr. 715. Reddere, nil aliud est quam aoeeptnm restituere; sen, reddere est quasi retro dare, et reddltur dieitur a redeande, quia retro it. Co. Litt. 142. To render is nothing more than to restore that … [Read more...] about REDDENS CAUSAM SCIENTIAE

Lat. He has rendered himself. In old English practice. A term applied to a principal who had rendered himself in discharge of his bail. Holtbouse. … [Read more...] about REDDIDIT SE