Retaker - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: retakerRecaption
The act of retaking as of one who has escaped after arrest reprisal the retaking of ones own goods chattels wife or children without force or violence from one who has taken them and who wrongfully detains them...
Recapture
The act of retaking or recovering by capture especially the retaking of a prize or goods from a captor...
Recentry
Recentry, means the act or an instance of retaking possession of land by someone who formerly held the land and who reserved the right to retake it when the new holder let it go, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1284....
reentry
reentry : a retaking possession of property by a lessor or grantor in exercise of the right to do so upon the failure of the lessee or grantee to fulfill a covenant or condition see also power of termination at power ...
Recovery
The act of recovering regaining or retaking possession...
Reprise
To take again to retake...
Retake
To take or receive again...
Retaker
One who takes again what has been taken a recaptor...
Escape
Escape [fr. echapper, Fr., to fly from], a violent or private evasion out of some lawful restraint; as where a man is arrested or imprisoned, and gets away before he is delivered by due course of law. Escapes are either in civil or criminal cases.(1) Civil. The abolition of imprisonment for debt has rendered this all but obsolete, and the sheriff is expressly discharged from any liability by s. 31 of the Prison Act, 1877, repealed and re-enacted by s. 16, sub-s. 2, and s. 39 of the (English) Sheriffs Act, 1887. Escapes are either voluntary, by the express consent of the keeper, after which he never can take his prisoner again (though the plaintiff may retake him at any time), but the sheriff had to answer for the debt, and he had no remedy over against the person escaping; or, negligent, where a prisoner escapes without his keeper's knowledge or consent, and then upon fresh pursuit the defendant may be retaken, even on a Sunday, and the sheriff was excused, if he had him again, before ...
Escape-warrant
Escape-warrant, a process addressed to all sheriffs, etc., throughout England, to retake an escaped prisoner, even on a Sunday, and commit him to proper custody, 1 Anne, c. 16....
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