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A surrendering or restoring ; also a Judicial acknowledgment that the thing in demand belongs to the demandant and not to the person surrendering Cowell. … [Read more...] about REDDITION

Engl. law. Persons who refuse to make the declarations against popery, and such as promote, encourage, or profess the popish religion. 2. These are by law liable to restraints, forfeitures and inconveniences, which are imposed upon them by various acts of parliament. Happily in this country no religious sect has the ascendency, and all persons are free to profess what religion … [Read more...] about RECUSANTS OR POPISH RECUSANTS

The act of redemption. To free from obligation, e.g. when a homeowner pays the balance due in a foreclosure proceeding and obtains the home once again. To buy back. To liberate an estate or article from mortgage or pledge by paying the debt for which it stood as security. To repurchase in a literal sense; as, to redeem one's land from a tax-sale. … [Read more...] about REDEEM

The demandant in a common recovery, after judgment has been given in his favor, assumes the name of recoverer. … [Read more...] about RECOVERER

A writ of right, of the reasonable part, which lay between privies In blood; as brothers in gavelkind, sisters, and other coparceners, for land in fee simple. Fitzh. Nat Brev. 9. … [Read more...] about RECTO DE RATIONABLE PARTE