1. Affording a remedy; giving the means of obtaining redress. 2. Of the nature of a remedy; intended to remedy wrongs or abuses, abate faults, or supply defects. 3. Pertaining […]
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REMEDIAL LAW
the part of the law that details the methods for enforcing your rights.
REMEDIAL RESPONSE
Long-term action that stops or substantially reduces a release or threat of a release of hazardous substances that is serious but not an immediate threat to public health.
REMEDIAL STATUTE
a law whose purpose is to correct an existing law that isn’t working or has caused some harm and not good.
REMEDIATION
The action of remedying something, esp the reversal or stopping of damage to the environment
REMEDIES
a term that means to be employed by the law to correct an injury or to enforce a legal right .
REMEDY
Remedy is the means by which the violation of a right is prevented, redressed, or compensated. Remedies are of four kinds: (1) By act of the party injured , the […]
REMEDY OVER
This the person who is responsible for damage or an act but who can blame someone else for it.
REMEMBRANCER
The remembrancer of the city of London is parliamentary solicitor to the corporation , and is bound to attend all courts of aldermen and common council when required. Pull. Laws […]
REMEMBRANCERS
In English law . Officers of the exchequer, whose duty it is to put in remembrance the lord treasurer and the justices of that court of such things as are […]
REMISE
32 N. E. 300; Hudson v. Wadsworth, 8 Conn. 359.
REMISE DE EA DETTE
In French law . The release of a debt
REMISSION
In the civil law . A release of a debt It is conventional , when it is expressly granted to the debtor by a creditor having a capacity to alienate; […]
REMISSNESS
This term imports the doing of the act in question in a tardy, neg- ligent, or careless manner; but it does not apply to the entire omission or forbearance of […]
REMIT
To send or transmit; as to remit money. Potter v. Morland, 3 Cush. (Mass.) 388; Ilollowell v. Life Ins. Co., 126 N. C. 398, 35 S. E. GIG. To give […]
REMITMENT
Tbe act of sending back to custody; an annulment. Wharton.
REMITTANCE
Money sent by one person to another, either in specie, bill of ex- change, check, or otherwise.
REMITTEE
A person to whom a remittance is made. Story, Bailm.
REMITTER
Tbe relation back of a later defective title to an earlier valid title. Re- mitter is where he who has the true property or jus proprietatis in lands, but is […]
REMITTING BANK
The bank instructed to handle collections, which in turn instructs the collecting bank .
REMITTIT DAMNA
Lat An entry on the record , by which the plaintiff declares that he remits a part of the damages which have been awarded him.
REMITTITUR
A court process to reduce the verdict handed down by a jury.
REMITTITUR DAMNA
Lat In practice . An entry made on record, in cases where a jury has given greater damages than a plaintiff has declared for, remitting the excess. 2 Tidd, Pr. […]
REMITTITUR OF RECORD
The re turning or sending back by a court of appeal of the record and proceedings in a cause, after its decision thereon, to the court whence the appeal came, […]
REMITTOR
A person who makes a remittance to another.