RELAXARE

In old conveyancing. To release. Relaxavi, relaxasse, have released. Litt … [Read more...] about RELAXARE

In practice. A female relator or petitioner. … [Read more...] about RELATRIX

The person upon whose complaint or at whose instance, an information or writ of quo warranto is filed, and who is quasi the plaintiff in the proceeding. A rehearser or teller; one who, by leave of court, brings an information in the nature of a quo warranto. 2. At common law, strictly speaking, no such person as a relator to an information is known; he being a creature of the … [Read more...] about RELATOR

Those to which a person is entitled in consequence of his relation with others such as the rights of a husband in relation to his wife; of a father, as to his children; of a master, as to his servant; of a guardian, as to his ward. 2. In general, the superior may maintain an action for an injury committed against his relative rights. … [Read more...] about RELATIVE RIGHTS

Those which relate to land, so called to distinguish them from those which are collateral to it. 2. These powers are appendant, as where a tenant for life has a power of making leases in possession. They are in gross when a person has an estate in the land, with a power of appointment, the execution of which falls out of the compass of his estate, but, notwithstanding, is … [Read more...] about RELATIVE POWERS