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REVERSE ENGINEER

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To decompile or disassemble a product or an invention into its basic component parts. With regard to software, this is a conversion of object (machine) code into the source code or other format so that is capable to be manipulated. … [Read more...]

REVERSE MORTGAGE

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A loan for homeowners who have significant equity in their property and who are elderly (age 62 or older) where they can make no payments during their lifetime to borrowers and the loan is satisfied from the proceeds of sale of the home upon the homeowner's death. … [Read more...]

REVERSER

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In Scotch law. The proprietor of an estate who grants a wadset (or mortgage) of his lands, and who has a right, on repayment of the money advanced to him, to be replaced in his right. Bell. … [Read more...]

REVERSIBLE

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Capable of being reversed. See also reversible error. … [Read more...]

REVERSIBLE ERROR

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A legal error or mistake that is made at trial that is of such substantial significance that the appellate court is compelled to reverse judgment. … [Read more...]

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