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Slang for excessive bureaucracy and prolonged requirements such as extensive paperwork. In a derivative sense, order carried to fastidious excess; system run out into trivial extremes. Webster v. Thompson, 55 Ga. 434. … [Read more...] about RED TAPE

Sax. Advice; counsel. … [Read more...] about RED, RAED, OV REDE

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