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Rem, information in, when any goods are supposed to become the property of the Crown, and no one appears to claim them or to dispute the title, as anciently in the case of treasure-trove, wrecks waifs, and estrays seized by the Crown's officers. After such seizure an information was usually filed in the Exchequer, and thereupon a proclamation was made for the owner (if any) to come in and claim the effects, and at the same time there issued a commission of appraisement to value the goods, after the return of which and a second pro-clamation made, if no claimant appeared, the goods were supposed derelict, and condemned to the use of the Crown; and when in later times forfeitures of the goods themselves, as well as personal penalties on the parties, were inflicted by Act of Parliament for transgressions against the laws of the customs and excise, the same process was adopted in order to secure such forfeited goods for the public use, though the offender had escaped justice. See 18 & 19 V...

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Verbum imperfecti temporis rem adhuc imperfectum significat

Res accessoria sequitur rem principalem

Sententia contra matrimoniam nunquam transit in rem judicatam

Vendens eandem rem duobus falsarius est

Litis nomen omnem actionem significat, sive in rem, sive in personam sit

Nihil in lege intolerabilius est eandem rem diverso jure censeri

Attornare rem

In omni re nascitur res qua ipsam rem exterminat

Duo non possunt in solido unam rem possidere