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most direct practicable course. 1 Bell, Comm. 406. REDRESS. The receiving satisfaction for an injury sustained. REDUBBERS. In criminal law. Those who bought stolen cloth and dyed it of an other color to prevent its being identified were anciently so called. Cowell; 3 Inst. 134. REDUCE, or annul. In Scotch law. To rescind REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM. In logic. The method of disproving an argu ment by showing that it leads to an absurd consequence. REDUCTION. In Scotch law. An action brought for the purpose of rescinding, annulling, or cancelling some bond, contract, or other instrument in writing. 1 Forb. Inst. pt. 4, pp. 158, 159. In French law. Abatement. When a parent gives away, whether by gift inter vivos or by legacy, more than his portion disponi hie, (q. ©.,) the donee or legatee is required to submit to have his gift reduced to the legal proportion. REDUCTION EX CAPITE LECTI. By the law of Scotland the heir in heritage was entitled to reduce all voluntary deeds granted to his prejudice by his predecessor within sixty days preceding the predecessor's death; provided the maker of the deed, at ils date, was laboring under the disease of which he died, and did not subsequently go to kirk or market unsupported. Bell. REDUCTION IMPROBATION. In Scotch law. One form of the action of re duction in which falsehood and forgery are alleged against the deed or document sought to be set aside. REDUCTION INTO POSSESSION. The act of exercising the right conferred by a chose in action, so as to convert it into a chose in possession; thus, a debt is reduced into possession by payment. Sweet. REDUNDANCY. This is the fault of introducing superfluous matter into a legal instrument; paiticularly the insertion in a pleading of matters foreign, extraneous, and irrelevant to that which it is intended to an swer. RE-ENTRY. The entering again into or resuming possession of premises. Thus in leases there is a proviso for re-entry of the lessor on the tenant's failure to pay the rent

vice or defect in the thing sold, which ren ders it either absolutely useless or its use so inconvenient and imperfect that it must be supposed that the buyer would not have pur chased it had he known of the vice. Civil Code La. art. 2520. REDHIBITORY ACTION. In the civil law. An action for redhibition. An action to avoid a sale on account of some vice or defect in the thing sold, which renders its use impossible, or so inconvenient and im perfect that it must be supposed the buyer would not have purchased it had he known of the vice. Civil Code La. art. 2520. REDHIBITORY DEFECT (or VICE.) In the civil law. A defect in an article sold, for which the seller may be compelled to take it back; a defect against which the seller is bound to warrant. Poth. Cont. Sale, no. 203. REDISSEISIN. In old English law. A second disseisin of a person of the same ten ements, and by the same disseisor, by whom he was before disseised. 3 Bl. Comm. 188. REDITXJS ALBI. White rent; blanche farm; rent payable in silver or other money. REDITUS ASSISUS. A set or standing rent. REDITUS CAPITALES. Chief rent paid by freeholders to go quit of all other services. REDITUS NIGRI. Black rent; black mail; rent payable in provisions, corn, labor, etc.; as distinguished from "money rent," called "reditusalbi." REDITUS QUIETI. Quitrents, (q. v.) REDITUS SICCUS. Rent seek, (q. v.) REDMANS. Men who, by the tenure or custom of their lands, were to ride with or for the lord of the manor, about his business. Domesday. REDOBATORES. In old English law. Those that buy stolen cloth and turn it into some other color or fashion that it may not be recognized. Redubbers. R E D R A F T . In commercial law. A draft or bill drawn in the place where the original bill was made payable and where it went to protest, on the place where such original bill was drawn, or, when there is no regular commercial intercourse rendering that practicable, then in the next best or AM. DIOT. LAW—64

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