Reclaiming - Law Dictionary Search Results
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reclaim 1 : to make fit or available for human use [ing land that had been strip-mined] 2 a : to demand the return of by right b : to regain possession of ...
Reclaimable
That may be reclaimed...
Reclaimant
One who reclaims one who cries out against or contradicts...
Reclaimer
One who reclaims...
Reclaimed animals
Reclaimed animals, those that are made tame by art, industry, or education, whereby a qualified pro-perty may be acquired in them. See FER' NA-TUR', and 2 Steph. Com....
Reclaiming
Reclaiming, the action of a lord pursuing, pro-secuting, and recalling his vassal, who had gone to live in another place without his permission. Also the demanding of a thing or person to be delivered up or surrendered to the princeor State it properly belongs to, when by some irregular means it has come into the possession of another.The procedure of appeal to the Inner House from the Outer House of the Court of Session in Scotland (except in jury cases)....
Fer' natur', animals
Fer' natur', animals. Beasts and birds of a wild disposition, such as deer, hares, coneys in a warren, pheasants, partridges, etc., as distingui-shed from those domit' natur', or tame, such as horses, sheep, poultry, etc. They are not whilst living the subjects of absolute property, so that they cannot be the subject of larceny, nor are they liable to distress for rent. But a man may acquire a qualified property in them, either (1) Per industriam, by his reclaiming and making them tame by art and industry, or by so confining them that they cannot escape, e.g., deer in a park, hares or rabbits in an enclosed warren, etc. The property in them only continues so long as they remain in a man's actual possession, but ceases if they regain their liberty, unless they have animus revertendi, as in the case of pigeons, tame hawks, etc. (2) Ratione impotenti', on account of their inability, as when birds, coneys, etc., make their nests or burrows on a mans' land, then he has a qualified property ...
reclamation
reclamation 1 : the act or process of reclaiming [the of goods delivered to an insolvent buyer] 2 : a right to reclaim (as under commercial law) ...
Foras
Foras, is derived from the Portuguese word 'fora', (Latine 'foras', 'foris' a door), signifying outside. It indicates the rent or revenue derived from outlying lands. The whole island of Bombay fell under that denomination when under Portuguese rule, being then a mere outlying dependency of Bassein. Subsequently the term 'foras' was, for the most part, though perhaps not quite exclusively, limited to the new salt batty ground reclaimed from the sea, or other waste ground lying outside the Fort, Native Town, and other the more ancient settled and cultivated grounds in the island, or to the quit-rent arising from that new salt batty ground and outlying ground. Thus, the salt batty lands reclaimed from the sea came to be known as Foras lands by association with the assessments payable thereon called 'Foras', Collector of Bombay v. Nusserwanji Rattanji Mistri, (1955) 1 SCR 1311: AIR 1955 SC 298 (302)....
Chasten
To correct by punishment to inflict pain upon the purpose of reclaiming to discipline as to chasten a son with a rod...
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