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This term, as currently understood, means only, or chiefly, an eating-house; but it has no such fixed and definite legal meaning as necessarily to exclude its being an "inn" in the legal sense. Lewis v. Hitchcock (D. C.) 10 Fed. 4. … [Read more...] about RESTAURANT

The person who takes all the property that remains in the estate after all debts are paid and gifts and bequests satisfied. … [Read more...] about RESIDUARY DEVISEE

On which has for its object, when accomplished, the revocation of the principal obligation; for example, I will sell you my crop of cotton, if my ship America does not arrive in the United States, within six months. My ship arrives in one month, my contract with you is revoked. … [Read more...] about RESOLUTORY CONDITION

Referring to property that still remains in the estate of the deceased after all the fees and taxes have been made and the and specific bequests and distributions made. The residuary estate includes any gifts or bequests that fail or lapse. For example, if a car is left to John and the remainder of the estate to Jill, and John dies prior to the deceased without an alternate for … [Read more...] about RESIDUARY ESTATE

(verb) - To go back. "It resorted to the line of the mother." Hale, Com. Law.(noun) - A court whose decision is final and without appeal is, in reference to the particular case, said to be a "court of last resort". The authority or jurisdiction of a court. The supreme court of the United States is a court of the last resort. … [Read more...] about RESORT