Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

EEVISED STATUTES

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REWARD

leave to be granted by the court or a judge upon a rule to show cause, or a summons, to be served according to the then present prac tice. C. L. P. Act, 1852, § 129. REVOCABLE. Susceptible of being re voked. REVOCATION. The recall of some power, authority, or thing granted, or a de stroying or making void of some deed that had existence until the act of revocation made it void. It may be either geneial, of all acts and things done before; or special, to revoke a particular thing. 5 Coke, 90-, Revocation by act of the party is an inten tional or voluntary revocation. The princi pal instances occur in the case of authorities and powers of attorney and wills. A revocation in law, or constructive revo cation, is produced by a rule of law, irrespect ively of the intention of the parties. Thus, a power of attorney is in general revoked by the death of the principal. Sweet. REVOCATION OF PROBATE is where probate of a will, having been grant ed, is afterwards recalled by the court of probate, on proof of a subsequent will, or other sufficient cause. REVOCATIONE PARLIAMENTS An ancient writ for recalling a parliament. 4 Inst. 44. REVOCATUR. Lat. It is recalled. This is the term, in English practice, appropriate to signify that a judgment is annulled or set aside for error in fact; if for error in law, it is then said to be reversed. REVOKE. To call back; to recall; to annul an act by calling or taking it back. REVOLT. The endeavor of the crew of a vessel, or any one or more of them, to over throw the legitimate authority of her com mander, with intent to remove him from his command, or against his will to take posses sion of the vessel by assuming the govern ment and navigation of her, or by transfer ring their obedience from the lawful com mander to some other person. 11 Wheat. 417. REWARD. A recompense or premium offered by government or an individual in re turn for special or extraordinary services to be performed, or for special attainments or achievements, or for some act resulting to the benefit of the public; as, a reward for useful inventions, for the discovery and apprehen

"REVISED STATUTES. A body of statutes which have been revised, collected, airanged in order, and re-enacted as a whole. This is the legal title of the collections of compiled laws of several of the states, and also of the United States. Such a volume is usually cited as "Rev. Stat.," "Rev. St.," or "R. S." REVISING ASSESSORS. In English law. Two officers elected by the burgesses of non-parliamentary municipal boroughs for the purpose of assisting the mayor in re vising the parish burgess lists. Wharton. REVISING BARRISTERS. In En glish law. Barristers appointed to revise the list of voters for county and borough mem bers of parliament, and who hold courts for that purpose throughout the county. St. 6 Viet. c. 18. REVISING BARRISTERS' COURTS. In English law. Courts held in the autumn throughout the country, to revise the list of voters for county and borough members of parliament. REVIVAL. The process of renewing the operative force of a judgment which has re mained dormant or unexecuted for so long a time that execution cannot be issued upon it without new process to reanimate it. The act of renewing the legal force of a contract or obligation, which had ceased to be sufficient foundation for an action, on ac count of the running of the statute of limita tions, by giving a new promise or acknowl edgment of it. REVIVE. To renew, revivify; to make one's self liable for a debt barred by the statute of limitations by acknowledging it; or for a matrimonial offense, once condoned, by com mitting another. REVIVOR, BILL OF. In equity prac tice. A bill filed for the purpose of reviving or calling into operation the proceedings in a suit when, from some circumstance, (as the death of the plaintiff,) the suit had abated. REVIVOR, WRIT OF. In English prac tice. Where it became necessary to revive a j udgment, by lapseot time, or change by death, etc., of the parties entitled or liable to execu tion, the party alleging himself to be entitled to execution might sue out a writ of revivor in the form given in the act, or apply to the court for leave to enter a suggestion upon the roll that it appeared that he was entitled to have and issue execution of the judgment, such

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