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request for production

production :a discovery request served by one party to an action on another (as under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 34) for the presentation for inspection of specified documents or tangible things or for permission to enter

res ipsa loquitur

res ipsa loquitur Latin, the thing speaks for itself] : a doctrine or rule of evidence in tort law that permits an inference or presumption that a defendant was negligent in an accident injuring the plaintiff...

res judicata

decided upon direct appeal "Stowers v. State, 657 N.E.2d 194 (1995)"]: as a : a broad doctrine in civil litigation that requires and includes the barring of relitigation of settled matters under merger, bar, collateral estoppel, and

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respite

respite in the civil law of Louisiana : a judicially approved or enforced agreement that provides a debtor with time or a

respondeat superior

respondeat superior [Medieval Latin, let the superior give answer] : a doctrine in tort law that makes a master liable for the wrong of a servant ;specif : the doctrine making an employer or principal liable...

retrocession

back] 1 : the return of title to property to its former or true owner ;specif in the civil law of Louisiana : the return to a decedent's heirs of property of the decedent that had been

revendicate

revendiguer to revendicate, from re- back + vendiguer to lay claim to something, from Latin vindicare] in the civil law of Louisiana : to bring an action to enforce rights in (specific property) esp. for the recognition

revocatory action

revocatory action in the civil law of Louisiana : an action brought by a creditor seeking to have set aside a contract made

Roman law

jurisconsults, and the codes of the later emperors, and that is the basis for much of the modern civil law systems

slander

slander : to utter slander against slan·der·er n n [Anglo-French esclandre, from Old French escandle esclandre scandal, from Late Latin scandalum moral stumbling block, disgrace, from Greek skandalon, literally, snare, trap] 1 : defamation of a...

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