Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

REGULATE

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RELATION

Rei turpis nullum mandatum est. The mandate of an immoral thing is void. Dig. 17, 1, 6, 3. A contract of mandate re quiring an illegal or immoral act to be done has no legal obligation. Story, Bailm. § 158. REIF. A robbery. Cowell. REIMBURSE. The primary meaning of this word is "to pay back." 83 Pa. St. 264. It means to make return or restoration of an equivalent for something paid, expended, or loat; to Indemnify, or make whole. REINSTATE. To place again in a for mer state, condition, or office; to restore to a state or position from which the object or person had been removed. See 15 Ct. Cl. 22. REINSURANCE. A contract of rein surance is one by which an insurer procures a third person to insure him against loss or liability by reason of such original insurance. Civil Code Cal. § 2646. Reipublicse interest voluntates defunc torum eifectum sortiri. It concerns the state that the wills of the dead should have their effect. REISSUABLE NOTES. Bank-notes which, after having been once paid, may again be put into circulation. REJOIN. In pleading. To answer a plaintiff's replication in an action at law, by some matter of fact. REJOINDER. In common-law plead ing. The second pleading on the part of the defendant, being his answer of matter of fact to the plaintiff's replication. REJOINING GRATIS. Rejoining vol untarily, or without being required to do so by a rule to rejoin. When a defendant was under terms to rejoin gratis, he had to de liver a rejoinder, without putting the plain tiff to the necessity and expense of obtaining a rule to rejoin. 10 Mees. & W. 12; Lush, Pr. 396; Brown. Relatio est flctio juris et intenta ad unum. Relation is a fiction of law, and in tended for one thing. 3 Coke, 28. Relatio semper fiat ut valeat dispo sitio. Reference should always be had in such a manner that a disposition in a will may avail. 6 Coke, 76. RELATION. 1. A relative or kinsman; a person connected by consanguinity or affin ity.

three approved TOWS of poverty, chastity, and obedience. Wharton. REGULATE. The power to regulate commerce, vested in congress, is the power to prescribe the rules by which it shall be governed, that is, the conditions upon which it shall be conducted, to determine when it shall be free, and when subject to duties or other exactions. The power also embraces within its control all the instrumentalities by which that commerce may be carried on, and the means by which it may be aided and en couraged. 114 U. S. 203, 5 Sup. Ct. Rep. 826. REGULATION. The act of regulating; a rule or order prescribed for management or government; a regulating principle; a precept. Webster. REGULUS. Lat. In Saxon law. A title sometimes given to the earl or comes, in old charters. Spelman. REHABERE FACIAS SEISINAM. When a sheriff in the "habere facias sei sinam" had delivered seisin of more than he ought, this judicial writ lay to make him re store seisin of the excess. Keg. Jud. 13, 51, 54. REHABILITATE. In Scotch and French criminal law. To reinstate a crim inal in his personal rights which he has lost by a judicial sentence. Brande. REHABILITATION. In French and Scotch criminal law. The reinstatement of a criminal in his personal rights which he has lost by a judicial sentence. Brande. In old English law. A papal bull or brief for re-enabling a spiritual person to ex ercise his function, who was formerly dis abled; or a restoring to a former ability. Cowell. REHEARING. In equity practice. A second hearing of a cause, for winch a party who is dissatisfied with the decree entered on the former hearing may apply by petition. 3 El. Comm. 453. RE I INTERVENTUS. Lat. Things intervening; that is, things done by one of the parties to a contract, in the faith of its va lidity, and with the assent of the other party, and which have so affected his situation that the other will not be allowed to repudiate his obligation, although originally it was im perfect, and he might have renounced it. 1 Bell, Comm. 328, 329.

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