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Attaint, writ of

whether a jury of twelve men gave a false verdict, so that the judgment following thereupon might be reversed. This writ was abolished by the (English) County Juries Act, 1825 (6 Geo. 4, c. 50), ss. 60,

Assignment

will amount to an assignment. Assignment by Lessor or Lessee, Effect of. A lessor, notwithstanding assignment of his reversion, continues liable to his lessee on covenants running with the land, Stuart v. Joy, 1904 (1) KB 362,

Assent of personal representatives

Vict. c. 65) real estate passed to the heir-at-law of the deceased or to the person entitled in reversion or remainder subject to the personal representatives' legal or equitable powers of sale (if any) and the (English)

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Appellant

resisting the appeal is called the respondent. Means a party who appeals a lower court's decision, usually seeking reversal of that decision, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 95.

Rheotrope

An instrument for reversing the direction of an electric current

VerbarHysteron proteron

A figure in which the natural order of sense is reversed hysterology as valet atque vivit ldquohe is well and livesrdquo

Reversioner

One who has a reversion or who is entitled to lands or tenements after a particular estate granted is terminated

Resupination

The state of luing on the back the state of being resupinate or reversed

Resupinate

Inverted in position appearing to be upside down or reversed as the flowers of the orchis and the leaves of some plants

Pseudoscopic

Of pertaining to or formed by a pseudoscope having its parts appearing with the relief reversed as a pseudoscopic image

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