Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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REPUTATIO, ETC.

REPRIEVE

nity, without reference to the form of govern ment. REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT. A government in the republican form; a govern ment of the people; a government by repre sentatives chosen by the people. Cooley, Const. Law, 194. REPUBLICATION. The re-execution or re-establishment by a testator of a will which he had once revoked. A second publication of a will, either ex pressly or by construction. REPUDIATE. To put away, reject, dis claim, or renounce a right, duty, obligation, or privilege. REPUDIATION. Rejection; disclaimer; renunciation; the rejection or refusal of an offered or available right or privilege, or of a duty or relation. The refusal on the part of a state or gov ernment to pay its debts, or its declaration that its obligations, previously contracted, are no longer regarded by it as of binding force. In the civil law. The casting off or put ting away of a woman betrothed; also, but less usually, of a wife; divorcement. In ecclesiastical law. The refusal to accept a benefice which has been conferred upon the party repudiating. REPUDIUM. Lat. In Roman law. A breaking off of the contract of espousals, or of a marriage intended to be solemnized. Some times translated "divorce;" but this was not the proper sense. Dig. 50, 16, 191. REPUGNANCY. An inconsistency, opposition, or contrariety between two or moie clauses of the same deed or contract, or between two or more material allega tions of the same pleading. REPUGNANT. That which is contrary to what is stated before, or insensible. A repugnant condition is void. Reputatio est vulgaris opinio ubi non est veritas. Et vulgaris opinio est du plex, soil.: Opinio vulgaris orta inter graves et discretos homines, et quse vultum ventatis habet; et opinio tan tum orta inter leves et vulgares ho mines, absque specie veritatis. Reputa tion is common opinion where there is not truth. And common opinion is of two kinds, to-wit: Common reputation arising among grave and sensible men, and which has the appearance of truth; and mere opin

parliament, are elected to represent Scotland and Ireland in the British house of lords; sixteen for the former and twenty-eight for the latter country. Brown. REPRIEVE. In criminal law. The withdrawing of a sentence of death for an in terval of time, whereby the execution is sus pended. 4 Bl. Comm. 394. REPRIMAND. A public and formal censure or severe reproof, administered to a person in fault by his superior officer or by a body to which he belongs. Thus, a member of a legislative body may be reprimanded by the presiding officer, in pursuance of a vote of censure, for improper conduct in the house. So a military officer, in some cases, is pun ished by a reprimand administered by his commanding officer, or by the secretary of war. REPRISALS. The forcibly taking a thing by one nation which belonged to an other, in return or satisfaction for an injury committed by the latter on the former. Vat tel, b. 2, c. 18, s. 342. REPRISES. In English law. Deduc tions and duties which are yearly paid out of a manor and lands, as rent-charge, rent seek, pensions, corrodies, annuities, etc., so that, when the clear yearly value of a manor is spoken of, it is said to be so much per annum ultra reprisas, —besides all reprises. Cow ell. Reprobata pecunia liberat solventem. Money refused [the refusal of money ten dered] releases him who pays, [or tenders it.] 9 Coke, 79a. REPROBATION. In ecclesiastical law. The interposition of objections or exceptions; as, to the competency of witnesses, to the due execution of instruments offered in evidence and the like. REPROBATOR, ACTION OP. In Scotch law. An action or proceeding intend ed to convict a witness of perjury, to which the witness must be made a party. Bell. REP-SILVER. In old records. Money paid by servile tenants for exemption from the customary duty of reaping for the lord. Cowell. REPUBLIC. A commonwealth; a state m which the exercise of the sovereign power is lodged in representatives elected by the people. Webster. In a wider sense, the state, the common wal, the whole organized political commu

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