Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

1017 KELIOTA VERIFICATION

RELEASE

RELEASE BY WAY OF PASSING AN ESTATE. As, where one of two co parceners releases all her right to the other, this passes the fee-simple of the whole. 2 Bl. Comm. 324, 325. RELEASE TO USES. The conveyance by a deed of release to one party to the use of another is so termed. Thus, when a con veyance of lands was effected, by those in struments of assurance termed a lease and re lease, from A. to B. and his heirs, to the use of C. and his heirs, in such case C. at once took the whole fee-simple in such lands; B., by the operation of the statute of uses, being made a mere conduit-pipe for conveying the estate to C. Brown. RELEASEE. The person to whom a re lease is made. RELEASER, or RELEASOR. maker of a release. The RELEGATIO. Lat. A kind of banish ment known to the civil law, which differed from "deportatio" in leaving to the person his rights of citizenship. RELEGATION. In old English law. Banishment for a time only. Co. Litt. 133. RELEVANCY. As a quality of evidence, "relevancy" means applicability to the issue joined. Relevancy is that which conduces to the proof of a pertinent hypothesis; a per tinent hypothesis being one which, if sus tained, would logically influence the issue. Whart. Ev. § 20. In Scotch law, the relevancy is the justice or sufficiency in law of the allegations of a party. A plea to the relevancy is therefore analogous to the demurrer of the English courts. RELEVANT. Applying to the matter in question; affording something to the pur pose. RELICT. This term is applied to the survivor of a pair of married people, whether the survivor is the husband or the wife; it means the relict of the united pair, (or of the marriage union,) not the relict of the deceased individual. 42 Ohio St. 101. RELICTA VERIFICATIONE. Where a judgment was confessed by cognovit actio nem after plea pleaded, and the plea was with drawn, it was called a "confession" or "cog novit actionem relicta verificatione. " Whar« ton.

ing the value of the property into court. Upon this being done he obtains a release, which is a kind of writ under the seal of the court, addressed to the marshal, commanding him to release the property. Sweet. 6. In estates. The conveyance of a man's interest or right which he hath unto a thing to another that hath the possession thereof or some estate therein. Shep. Touch. 320. The relinquishment of some right or benefit to a person who has already some interest in the tenement, and such interest as qualifies him for receiving or availing himself of the right or benefit so relinquished. Burt. Real Prop. 12. A conveyance of an ulterior interest in lands or tenements to a particular tenant, or of an undivided share to a co-tenant, (the re leasee being in either case in privity of estate with the releasor,) or of the right, to a per son wrongfully in possession. 1 Steph. Comm. 479. RELEASE BY WAY OF ENLARG ING- AN ESTATE. A conveyance of the ulterior interest in lands to the particular tenant; as, if there be tenant for life or years, remainder to another in fee, and he in re mainder releases all his right to the particular tenant and his heirs, this gives him the es tate in fee. 1 Steph. Comm. 480; 2 Bl. Comm. 324. RELEASE BY WAY OF ENTRY AND FEOFFMENT. As if there be two joint disseisors, and the disseisee releases to one of them, he shall be sole seised, and shall keep out his former companion; which is the same in effect as if the disseisee had entered and thereby put an end to the disseisin, and afterwards had enfeoffed one of the disseisors in fee. 2 Bl. Comm. 325. RELEASE BY WAY OF EXTIN GUISHMENT. As if my tenant for life makes a lease to A. for life, remainder to B. and his heirs, and I release to A., this extin guishes my right to the reversion, and shall inure to the advantage of B.'s remainder, as well as of A.'s particular estate. 2 Bl. Comm. 325. RELEASE BY WAY OF PASSING A RIGHT. As if a man be disseised and releaseth to his disseisor all his right, hereby the disseisor acquires a new right, which changes the quality of his estate, aud renders that lawful which before was tortious or wrongful. 2 Bl. Comm. 325.

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