A rule of evidence where negligence may be inferred because an accident occured.

The legal document where a person is inferred to be negligent.

Latin- a thing adjudicated. Once a lawsuit is decided, the same issue or an issue arising from the first issue cannot be contested again.

a Latin term for movable things.

a Latin phrase for a matter that is not yet settled or decided or a new matter.

Where a person who has sold goods or other property to a purchaser sells them again to some one else. Sometimes a vendor reserves the right of reselling if the […]

In old English practice. An admission or receiving a third person to plead his right in a cause formerly com RESCEIT 1025

A new loan rplacing any outstanding balance left on a previous loan.

Renegotiating a loan with new terms that help the debtor avoid foreclosure . Refer to renegotiated loan .

To abrogate, annul, avoid, or cancel a contract; particularly, nullifying a contract by the act of a party. See Powell v. Linde Co., 29 Misc. Rep. 419, GO N. Y. […]

Lat. In the civil law . An annulling; avoiding, or making void; abrogation ; rescission. Cod. 4, 44.

Rescission, or the act of rescinding, is where a contract is canceled, annulled, or abrogated by the parties, or one of them. In Spanish law, nullity is divided into absolute […]

1. The intention to void a voidable contract and release both parties from any obligations. 2. The unmaking of a contract by a court that deems it to be unfair […]

In Scotch law. One to rescind or aunul a deed or contract.

Rescue. The taking back by force goods which had been taken under a distress, or the violently taking away a man who is under arrest, and setting him at liberty, […]

In canon law. A term including any form of apostolical letter emanating from the pope. The answer of the pope in writing. Diet. Droit Can. In the civil law . […]

In French law . A re- scription is a letter by which one requests some one to pay a certain sum of money, or to account for him to a […]

Lat. In the civil law . A species of imperial constitution , in the form of an answer to some application or petition ; a rescript. Calvin.

The act of forcibly and intentionally delivering a person from lawful arrest or imprisonment , and setting him at liberty. 4 Bl. Comm. 131; Code Ga.

a principle that states a person who causes an injury may be held liable for the injuries sustained by a third person who comes in to help, or rescue, the […]

In old English law . A rescuer; one who commits a rescous. Cro. Jac. 419; Cowell.

Fr. Resceit; receipt; the receiving or harboring a felon, after the com- mission of a crime. Britt. c. 23.

In English law . The second sealing of a writ by a master so as to continue it, or to cure it of an irregularity .

Basic or applied method of increasing the knowledge by finding new information .

Activities that combine applied and basic research that is aimed at finding solutions to problems or the creating of new products.