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(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

The receiving or harboring an outlawed person. Cowell. Reset of theft. In Scotch law. The receiving and keeping stolen goods, knowing them to be stolen, with a design of feloniously retaining them from the real owner. Alis. Crim, Law. 328. … [Read more...] about RESET

Scotch law. The receiving and keeping of stolen goods knowing them to be stolen, with a design of feloniously retaining them from the real owner. … [Read more...] about RESET OF THEFT

In Scotch law. A receiver of stolen goods knowing them to have been stolen. … [Read more...] about RESETTER

In canon law. A term including any form of apostolical letter emanating from the pope. The answer of the pope in writing. Diet Droit Can. In the civil law. A species of imperial constitutions, being the answers of the prince Bl. Law Dict.(2d E d.)65 In Individual cases, chiefly given in response to inquiries by parties in relation to litigated suits, or to inquiries by the … [Read more...] about RESCRIPT