Legal Terms- R

Question 1

RATIFY

Answer 1

To approve and sanction.

Question 2

REAL PROPERTY

Answer 2

Includes land, tenements, and hereditaments.

Question 3

REALTY

Answer 3

A brief term for real property.

Question 4

REBUT

Answer 4

To contradict; to refute, especially by evidence and arguments.

Question 5

RECEIVER

Answer 5

A person who is appointed by the court to receive, and hold in trust property in litigation.

Question 6

RECIDIVIST

Answer 6

Habitual criminal.

Question 7

RECIPROCAL

Answer 7

Mutual.

Question 8

RECOUPMENT

Answer 8

To keep back or get something which is due; also, it is the right of a defendant to have a deduction from the amount of the plaintiff’s damages because the plaintiff has not fulfilled his part of the same contract.

Question 9

RECROSS EXAMINATION

Answer 9

Examination of a witness by a cross-examiner subsequent to a redirect examination of the witness.

Question 10

REDEEM

Answer 10

To release an estate or article from mortgage or pledge by paying the debt for which it stood as security.

Question 11

REDIRECT EXAMINATION

Answer 11

Examination of a witness by the direct examiner subsequent to the cross-examination of the witness.

Question 12

REFEREE

Answer 12

A person to whom a cause pending in a court is referred by the court, to take testimony, hear the parties, and report thereon to the court.

Question 13

REFERENDUM

Answer 13

A method of submitting an important legislative or administrative matter to a direct vote of the people.

Question 14

RELEVANT EVIDENCE

Answer 14

Evidence including evidence relevant to the credulity o a witness or hearsay declarant, having any tendency in reason to prove or disprove any disputed fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action.

Question 15

REMAND

Answer 15

To send a case back to the lower court from which it came, for further proceedings.

Question 16

REPLEVIN

Answer 16

An action to recover goods or chattels wrongfully taken or detained.

Question 17

REPLY (REPLICATION)

Answer 17

Generally, a reply is what the plaintiff or other person who has instituted proceedings says in answer to the defendant’s case.

Question 18

RE JUDICATA

Answer 18

A thing judicially acted upon or decided.

Question 19

RES ADJUDICATA

Answer 19

Doctrine that an issue or dispute litigated and determined in a case between the opposing parties is deemed permanently decided between these parties.

Question 20

RESCIND (RECISSION)

Answer 20

To avoid or cancel a contract.

Question 21

RESPONDENT

Answer 21

A defendant in a proceeding in chancery or admiralty; also the person who contends against the appeal in a case.

Question 22

RESTITUTION

Answer 22

In equity, it is the restoration of both parties to their original condition (when practicable), upon the rescission of a contract for fraud or similar cause.

Question 23

RETROACTIVE (RETROSPECTIVE)

Answer 23

Looking back; effective as of a prior time.

Question 24

REVERSED

Answer 24

A term used by appellate courts to indicate that the decision of the lower court in the case before it has been set aside.

Question 25

REVOKE

Answer 25

To recall or cancel.

Question 26

RIPARIAN (RIGHTS)

Answer 26

The rights of a person owning land containing or bordering on a water purse or other body of water, such as lakes or rivers.