Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

REDDENDO SINGULA SINGULIS 1008

EEDHIBITION

redemption or repurchase; given or held un der conditions admitting of reacquisition by purchase; as, a "redeemable pledge." REDEEMABLE RIGHTS. Rights which return to the conveyor or disposer of land, etc., upon payment of the sum for which such rights are granted. Jacob. REDELIVERY. A yielding and deliv ering back of a thing. REDEMISE. A regranting of land de mised or leased. REDEMPTION. A repurchase; a buy ing back. The act of a vendor of property in buying it back again from the purchaser at the same or an enhanced price. The right of redemption is an agreement or pac tion, by which the vendor reserves to himself the power of taking back the thing sold by returning the price paid for it. Civil Code La. art. 2567. The process of annulling and revoking a conditional sale of property, by performance of the conditions on which it was stipulated to be revocable. The process of cancelling and annulling a defeasible title to land, such as is created by a mortgage or a tax-sale, by paying the debt or fulfilling the other conditions. The liberation of a chattel from pledge or pawn, by paying the debt for which it stood as security. Repurchase of notes, bills, or other evi dences of debt, (particularly bank-notes and paper-money,) by paying their value in coin to their holders. REDEMPTION, EQUITY OF. EQUITY OP REDEMPTION. See REDEMPTION OF LAND-TAX. In English law. The payment by the land owner of such a lump sum as shall exempt his land from the land-tax. Mozley & Whit ley. REDEMPTIONES. In old English law. Heavy fines. Distinguished from miserico*- dia, (which see.) REDEUNDO. Lat. Returning; in re turning; while returning. 2 Strange, 985. REDEVANCE. In old French and Cana dian law. Dues payable by a tenant to his lord, not necessarily in money. REDHIBERE. Lat. In the civil law. To have again; to have back; to cause a sell er to have again what he had before. REDHIBITION. In the civil law. The avoidance of a sale on account of some

REDDENDO SINGUIiA SINGULIS. By referring each to each; referring each phrase or expression to its appropriate object. A rule of construction. REDDENDUM. In conveyancing. Rendering; yielding. The technical name of that clause in a conveyance by which the grantor creates or reserves some new thing to himself, out of what he had before grant ed; as "rendering therefor yearly the sum of ten shillings, or a pepper-corn," etc. That clause in a lease in which a rent is reserved to the lessor, and which commences with the word "yielding." 2 Bl. Comm. 299. REDDENS CAUSAM SCTENTLffi. Giving the reason of his knowledge. In Scotch practice. A formal phrase used in depositions, preceding the statement of the reason of the witness' knowledge. 2 How. State Tr. 715. Reddere, nil aliud est quam accep tum restituere; seu, reddere est quasi retro dare, et redditur dicitur a rede undo, quia retro it. Co. Litt. 142. To render is nothing more than to restore that which has been received; or, to render is as it were to give back, and it is called "render ing" from "returning," because it goes back again. REDDIDIT SE. He has rendered him self. In old English practice. A term ap plied to a principal who had rendered himself in discharge of his bail. Holthouse. REDDITARIUS. In old records. A renter; a tenant. Cowell. REDDITARIUM. In old records. A rental, or rent-roll. Cowell. REDDITION. A surrendering or re storing; also a judicial acknowledgment that the thing in demand belongs to the demand ant, and not to the person surrendering. Cowell. REDEEM. To buy back. To liberate an estate or article from mortgage or pledge by paying the debt for which it stood as secu rity. To repurchase in a literal sense; as, to redeem one's land from a tax-sale. REDEEMABLE. 1. Subject to an obli gation of redemption; embodying, or condi tioned upon, a piomise or obligation of re demption; convertible into coin; as, a "re deemable currency." 2. Subject to redemption; admitting of

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