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Riot

own authority, with an intent mutually to assist one another against any who shall oppose them in the execution of some enterprise of a private nature, and afterwards actually executing the same in a violent and turbulent

Revocation of agency

has expressly stipulated that the authority shall be irrevocable, and the agent has also an interest in its execution. (2) Where an authority or power is coupled with an interest, or is given for a valuable consideration,

Remittitur of record

was discontinued, the transcript must have been remitted, and a remittitur entered, before a defendant could sue out execution; but this was afterwards unnecessary, for the record remained in the court below, and execution was therefore, in

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Rasure, or Erasure

a deed is presumed, in the absence of rebutting evidence, to have been made at or before its execution, but in a will it is presumed to have been made after its execution. See INTERLINEATION.

return

to bring back (as a writ, verdict, or indictment) to an office or tribunal [the sheriff must the execution…to the proper clerk within sixty days "J. H. Friedenthal et al."] [the grand jury ed six indictments] [ed

trust

her discretion in distributing principal or income to the beneficiary dry trust : passive trust in this entry executed trust : a trust in which nothing is left to be done by the trustee but preserve the

use

creditors. In response, the Statute of Uses was enacted in 1535. The purpose of the Statute was to execute the use, investing the legal ownership of the property in the cestui que use, or one entitled to

Limitation, words of

'heirs of the body.' See 1 Smith's Real and Pers. Prop., 4th 3d. 63-65, 160. As to deeds executed after December 31, 1881, see (English) Conveyancing Act, 1881, s. 51; Re Ethel, (1901) 1 Ch 945; and

Hire

all proper new and accessorial materials; (3) to do everything on his part to enable the workman to execute his engagement; (3) to do everything on his part to enable the workman to execute his engagement; (4)

Homicide

it, it is either justifiable, excusable, or felonious. I. Justifiable, of three kinds: (a) Where the proper officer executes a criminal in strict conformity with his sentence. (b) Where an officer of justice, or other person acting

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