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(usually in the plural) An act of righting a wrong; compensation.
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(transitive) To alienate (property) in mortmain.
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(transitive, finance) To convert into capital, i.e., to get cash or similar immediately fungible resources for some less fungible property or source of future income.
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(US law of evidence) A rule that permits a party to take back evidentiary materials that were mistakenly turned over to the other party but to which the other party would not have been entitled.
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(law) A claim for restitution of a payment
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The person with whom something is deposited.
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(US, transitive) To attach the effects of a debtor in the hands of a third party.
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(UK, law, obsolete) The restitution of an outlawed person to the protection of the law; inlawing.
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(law) The right by virtue of which persons and things taken by an enemy in war are restored to their former state when coming again under the power of the nation to which they belonged.
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(in company names) Reinsurance.
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(law) An order returning property lost by a previous legal proceeding.
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(law, transitive) To bail again.
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(law) The lawful claim and recovery, by a person, of goods wrongly taken from him
n
The conveyance of a property back to a former owner
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(law) The person against whom a judgement is obtained in common recovery.
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(law) A verdict giving somebody the right to recover debts or costs.
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(law) The transfer of an estate back to the person who demised it; reconveyance.
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One who receives a refund.
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Alternative form of reimburser [One who reimburses.]
v
(transitive) To place insurance on the contract that insures something (allowing the insurer to offset risk in the same way the insuree did).
n
A property that has been let again
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The act of an appellate court sending a matter back to a lower court for review or disposal.
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(Britain, law, Parliament) A bill that has been postponed or deferred to another session.
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(law) The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong.
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(obsolete, law) A return or surrender of a claim, property etc.
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(law) A referral of a case back to another (especially a lower or inferior) court of law; a remand, a remittal.
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(law) The reduction by a judge of damages awarded by a jury.
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A person who is in favour of the payment of reparations.
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(transitive) To refund; to repay; to pay back
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(law) An action to recover personal property unlawfully taken, especially that seized by way of distraint; the writ or procedure of such action.
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To return goods to their rightful owner by replevin; to recover goods.
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(US) A man employed by a finance company or similar lender to repossess property which is the security for a loan or subject of a lease and where payments have not been made by the borrower/lessor at agreed times (i.e. one that is in default).
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One who, or that which, requisitions.
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Alternative form of re-restitution [(law) An order returning property lost by a previous legal proceeding.]
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(law) A new point that has not previously been decided in law.
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A religious mission set up (usually in poor city quarters) to rescue human 'derelicts' from a wasted life of sin, the final aim being conversion
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The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account. Often, specifically, the intervals after which compound interest is added to capital.
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Abbreviation of restitution. [(law) A process of compensation for losses.]
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(law) A process of compensation for losses.
adj
Pertaining to or constituting restitution (compensation for losses).
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(law) Any of several forms of justice that attempts to repair the harm done to the victim, sometimes by making the offender make restitution.
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Alternative form of retributer [One who makes retribution.]
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(law) The return of land, rights, etc. previously ceded.
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(property law) The return of an estate to the donor or grantor after expiry of the grant.
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(law) A person who possesses the reversion to an estate or office.
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(property law) The reversion of ownership of an estate in land to the original grantor pursuant to the occurrence of a condition set forth in the original grant.
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(aviation, travel, consumer law) The right of a passenger, in some jurisdictions, to obtain a full refund on an airline ticket within a specific period of time.
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Initialism of restorative justice. [(law) Any of several forms of justice that attempts to repair the harm done to the victim, sometimes by making the offender make restitution.]
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