Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

REASONABLE PART

REAL BIGHT

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REASONABLE. Agreeable to reason; just; proper. Ordinary or usual. REASONABLE ACT. Such as may fairly, justly, and reasonably be required of a party. REASONABLE AID. A duty claimed by the lord of the fee of his tenants, holding by knight service, to marry his daughter, etc. Cowell. REASONABLE AND PROBABLE CAUSE. Such grounds as justify any one in suspecting another of a crime, and giving him in custody thereon. It is a defense to an action for false imprisonment. REASONABLE CARE. Such a de gree of care, precaution, or diligence as may fairly and properly be expected or required, having regard to the nature of the action, or of the subject-matter, and the circum stances surrounding the transaction. "Reasonable care and skill" is a relative phrase, and, in its application as a rule or measure of duty, will vary in its requirements, according to the cir cumstances tinder 'which the care and skill are to be exerted. 4 Allen, 268. REASONABLE DILIGENCE. A fair, proper, and due degree of care and activity, measured with reference to the particular circumstances; such diligence, care, or atten tion as might be expected from a man of or dinary prudence and activity. REASONABLE DOUBT. This is a term often used, probably pretty well under stood, but not easily defined. It does not mean a mere possible doubt, because every thing relating to human affairs, and depend ing on moral evidence, is open to some pos sible or imaginary doubt. It is that state of the case which, after the entire compari son and consideration of all the evidence, leaves the minds of jurors in that condi tion that they cannot say they feel an abid ing conviction to a moral certainty of the truth of the charge. 26 N. J. Law, 601,615. A. reasonable doubt is deemed to exist, -within the rule that the jury should not convict unless satis fied beyond a reasonable doubt, when the evidence is not sufficient to satisfy the judgment of the truth of a proposition with such certainty that a prudent man would feel safe in acting upon it in his own important affairs. 23 Ind. 170. REASONABLE NOTICE. Such notice or information of a fact as may fairly and properly be expected or required in the par ticular circumstances. REASONABLE PART, in old En glish law. That' share of a man's goods

REAL RIGHT. In Scotch law. That which entitles him who is vested with it to possess the subject as his own, and, if in the possession of another, to demand from him its actual possession. Real rights affect the subject itself; personal are founded in obli gation. Erskine, Inst. 3, 1, 2. REAL SECURITY. The security of mortgages or other liens or incumbrances upon land. See 2 Atk. 806. REAL SERVITUDE. In the civil law. A right which one estate or piece of land (prcedium) owes to another estate. See FBJSDIAL SERVITUDE. REAL STATUTES. In the civil law. Statutes which have principally for their ob ject, property, and which do not speak of persons, except in relation to property. Story, Conn. Laws, § 13. REAL THINGS, (or THINGS REAL.) In common law. Such things as are perma nent, fixed, and immovable, which cannot be carried out of their place; as lands and tenements. 2 Bl. Comm. 15. Things sub stantial and immovable, and the rights and profits annexed to or issuing out of them. 1 Steph. Comm. 156. REAL WARRANDICE. In Scotch law. An infeoffment of one tenement given in security of another. REAL WRONG. In old English law. An injury to the freehold. REALITY. In foreign law. That quality of laws which concerns property or things, (quce ad rem spectant.) Story, Conn. Laws, § 16. REALIZE. To convert any kind of prop erty into money; but especially to receive the returns from an investment. REALM. A kingdom; a country. 1 Taunt. 270; 4 Camp. 289. REALTY. A brief term for real proper ty; also for anything which partakes of the nature of real property. REAFFRAISER. A person who, in certain cases, is appointed to make a reval uation or second appraisement of imported goods at the custom-house. REASON. A faculty of the mind by which it distinguishes truth from falsehood, good from evil, and which enables the pos sessor to deduce inferences from facts or from propositions. Webster.

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