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• public defender

  A lawyer who represents defendants in court who are experiencing indigence, or financial insecurity that prevents their funding their own legal counsel
• public protector

  An independent institution with a mandate to support and strengthen constitutional democracy / a supreme administrative oversight body with the power to investigate, report and remedy improper conduct in state affairs
• public sector

  The part of the economic system that is controlled by national, state or provincial, and local governments, and provides several governmental service
• publish

  To make known to another or to the public generally
• pupilage

  Is a period of practical training required to become a fully-fledged barrister / advocate
• prodigal

  A person with normal abilities who as a result of some defect of character squanders his or her assets in an irresponsible and reckless way
• reciprocal contract

  An agreement between two or more parties where each party agrees to do something in exchange for the other party's agreement to do something else
• reasonable

  Just, rational, appropriate, ordinary, or usual in the circumstances
• reasonable person

  A fictional person with an ordinary degree of reason, prudence, care, foresight, or intelligence whose conduct, conclusion, or expectation in relation to a particular circumstance or fact
• 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