KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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RELEASE

RELIGION

plied with the terms of the deed of trust Release by way of enlarging 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 remainder releases all his right to the particular tenant and his heirs, this gives him the estate 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 en feoffed one of the disseisors in fee. 2 Bl. Comm. 325.—Release by way of extingn.ish.ment. 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 extinguishes 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, and renders that lawful which before was tortious or wrong ful. 2 Bl. Comm. 325.—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 of dower. The relinquishment by a married woman of her expectant dower interest or estate in a par ticular parcel of realty belonging to her hus band, as, by joining with him in a conveyance of it to a third person.—Release to uses. The conveyance by a deed of release to one par ty to the use of another is so termed. Thus, when a conveyance of lands was effected, by those instruments of assurance termed a lease and release, 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 es tate to C. Brown. RELEASEE. The person to whom a re lease is made. RELEASER, or RELEASOR. The mak er of a release. RELEGATIO. La t A kind of banish ment known to the civil law, which differed from "deportatio" in leaving to the person his rights of citizenship. 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. A distinction is sometimes taken between "logical" relevancy and "legal" relevancy, the former being judged merely by the standards of ordinary logic or the general laws of reason ing, the latter by the strict and artificial rules f RELEGATION.

of the law with reference to the admissibility of evidence. See Hoag v. Wright 34 App. Div. 260, 54 N. Y. Supp. 658. Applying to the matter in question; affording something to the purpose. In Scotch law, good in law, legally suffi cient; as, a "relevant" plea or defense. —Relevant evidence. See EVIDENCE. 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 deceas ed individual. Spitler v. Heeter, 42 Ohio St 101. L. Lat. Where a judgment was confessed by cognovit actionem after plea pleaded, and the plea was withdrawn, it was called a "conlession" or "cognovit actionem relicta' verifications" Wharton. RELICTION. An increase of the land by the sudden withdrawal or retrocession of the sea or a river. Hammond v. Shepard, 186 111. 235, 57 N. E. 8(57, 78 Am. St Rep. 274; Sapp v. Frazier, 51 La. Ann. 1718, 26 South. 378, 72 Am. St Rep. 493. RELIEF. 1. In feudal law. A sum pay* able by the new tenant the duty being inci dent to every feudal tenure, by way of hne or composition with the lord for taking up the estate which was lapsed or fallen in by the death of the last tenant At one time the amount was arbitrary, but afterwards the re lief of a knight's fee became fixed at one hundred shillings. 2 Bl. Comm. 65. 2. "Relief" also means deliverance from oppression, wrong, or injustice. In this sense it is used as a general designation of the as sistance, redress, or benefit which a complain ant seeks at the hands of a court particularly in equity. It may be thus used.of such rem edies as specific performance, or the reforma tion or rescission of a contract; but it does not seem appropriate to the awarding of money damages. 3. The assistance or support, pecuniary or otherwise, granted to indigent persons by the proper administrators of the poor-laws, is also called "relief." In feudal law, relieve Is to depend; thus, the seigniory of a tenant in capite relieves of the crown, meaning that the tenant holds of the crown. The term is not common in English writers. Sweet As used in constitutional provisions forbidding the "establishment of religion," the term means a particular system of faith and worship recognized and prac tised by a particular church, sect or denom ination. See Reynolds .v. U. S., 98 U. S. 149, RELEVANT. RELICTA VERIFICATIONS. RELIEVE. RELIGION.