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Restitution, Writ of

1). And, generally, if money, etc., be levied under a writ of execution, and the judgment be afterwards reversed or set aside, the party against whom the execution was sued out may have his writ of restitution;

Release

of action (see SURETY CON-SIDERATION); also a Common Law conveyance of a larger estate, or a remainder, or reversion to one already in possession, the operative verb in which is 'release'; hence the name. It operates or

Registration of title of land

other minor interests, and as regards dealings effected after 1925 between assignees and incumbrancers of life interests, remainders, reversions and executory interests, priority is established by order of special priority cautions or inhibitions, noted in a 'Minor

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Reditus siccus

Reditus siccus, a rent seck, or barren, the owner of which has neither seigniory nor reversion, nor any express power of distress reserved to him. See RENT.

Rectus in curia

of a court, and no accusation is made against him; also said of an outlaw when he had reversed his outlawry. Free from charge or offense; competent to appear in court and entitled to benefit of law,

Real representative

the statutory power [(English) L.P. Act, 1925, s. 176] devolve upon the personal representative. An entailed interest or reversion or remainder thereto which was not disposed of by will does not devolve upon them, nor does the

Real Estate

the Administration of Estates Act, 1925, is 'real estate includes chattels real and land in possession, remainder or reversion and every interest in or over land to which the deceased was entitled at his death and (ii.)

Quid Juris clamat

the custos brevium of the Common Pleas before it was engrossed: it lay for the grantee of a reversion or a remainder, when the particular tenant would not attorn, Reg. Jud. 571.

Elegit

vests in him, and he can bring ejectment or sue for the rent if the estate is in reversion, Hatton v. Haywood, (1874) LR 9 Ch 236. See R.S.C., Ord. XLIII. The writ will not affect the

fee

a fee which is granted to an individual and to that individual's descendants, which is subject to a reversion or a remainder if a tenant in tail dies with no lineal descendants, and which is not freely

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