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REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST

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Also known as REIT; refers to a business that invests in real estate. Investors can buy stock in a company (a REIT) that invests and holds real property. … [Read more...]

RE. FA. LO.

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The abbreviation of "re-cordari facias loquelam" (q. v.) Re, verbis, seripto, consensu, tradi-tione, junetura vestes snmere pacta solent. Compacts usually take their clothing from the thing itself, from words, from writing, from consent, from delivery. Plowd. 161. … [Read more...]

REAL EVIDENCE

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That evidence which is able to be seen and which can be presented to the jury for inspection. See also the term demonstrative evidence. … [Read more...]

READERS

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In the middle temple, those persons were so called who were appointed to deliver lectures or "readings" at certain periods during term. The clerks in holy orders who read prayers and assist in the performance of divine service in the chapels of the several inns of court are also so termed. Brown. … [Read more...]

REAL LAW

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At common law. The body of laws relating to real property. This use of the term is popular rather thau techniCal. … [Read more...]

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