RESTING A CASE

After all evidence has been presented by a party, the party rests its case and leaves to the other party an ability to make its defense or to the judge and/or jury to render a decision. … [Read more...] about RESTING A CASE

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 remedy or recourse which marine underwriters have against each other, according to the date of their assurances, or against the master, If the loss arise through his default, as through ill loading, want of caulking, or want of having the vessel tight; also the remedy or recourse a person has against his guarantor or other person who is to indemnify him from any damage … [Read more...] about RESTAUR, OR RESTOR

Legal treatises that are well recognized analyses on the law and are given great weight and respect in legal argument. … [Read more...] about RESTATEMENT OF THE LAW

Passing it a second time through the proper office, whereupon it receives a new stamp. 1 Chit Arch. Pr. 212. … [Read more...] about RESTAMPING WRIT