Law

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• reciprocal duty

  A duty owed by one individual to another and vice versa
• registrar

  An officer who has the custody or keeping of a registry or register
• rei vindication

  The action through which an owner who is out of possession sues to recover possession of his property
• religion

  A set of systematic beliefs
• religious marriage

  A marriage that is entered into in terms of certain religious views and rituals
• remuneration

  Any money or its equivalent given or passed to any person for services rendered by him
• reported court case

  Those cases that have been published in a law report series
• representative democracy

  A type of democracy where representatives are elected by the public
• res alicuius

  Things owed by a natural or legal person or thing in a deceased or insolvent estate
• res deperditae

  These are lost things and no longer within the physical control of the owner, but in respect of which the owner has not lost the intention to be the owner
• res derelictae

  Things that are no longer within physical control of an owner and in respect of which the owner no longer has the intention to be the owner
• res extra commercio

  Things which cannot function as objects of private property rights or which cannot be privately owned.
• res in commercio

  Things that one could possess, obtain. Ownership, and establish a limited real right
• res nullius

  Things belonging to no one
• res communes omnium

  Things which by natural. Law are common to all people but belong to no one
• respondent

  The party against whom a petition is filed, especially one on appeal
• res publicae

  Public things / things that belong to everyone and cannot be owned by any individual.
• restitutio in intergrum

  Restoration to the previous condition or the status quo
• res universitatatis

  Things belonging to a society, corporation, university or other community
• risk

  A threat and the possibility of suffering harm or loss
• rule

  Any standard, principle, or norm that guides conduct
• rule of law

  A principle of governance in which all persons, institutions and entities, public and private, including the State itself, are accountable to laws that are publicly promulgated, equally enforced and independently adjudicated
• sentimental damages

  Damages that are usually a result of an injury to one’s personality
• separation of power

  The division of governmental power into the three branches: legislative, executive and judicial, with no control or interference by one on the other
• sequestrate

  To removing property from its possessor, pending the outcome of a judicial dispute between multiple parties who claim ownership