Relationship – this legal term refers to legal or blood connection between parties or individuals. For example, the act of marriage creates legal relationship between two spouses. On the other hand, the act of birth creates relationship between a mother…
Related lawsuits – In practice, lawsuits which rise because the same issue, are called “related lawsuits”. These would be claims for refund of money by investors, in relation to failed property development. There is also another example – where the…
Related firms – Within the area of Corporate Law, this term refers to various examples where two or more companies have legal relations between them. For instance, either one company controls (owns) another company, or there is consolidation or uniting…
Rejoinder – this legal term finds application in the area of Civil Process in some legal systems. There it details the legal right, given towards the plaintiff to answer not in details about a proof, submitted through the rebuttal by…
Rejection of claim – in the most usual meaning of this term, the rejection of claim represents an act by the court which either refuses to hear the claim (due to non-performance of the requirements for submitting a claim), or…
Reissued patent – in the Patent Offices operating in most legal systems, there is possibility for the patent holder who discovers a mistake or error in the issued patent or trademark, to apply for correcting it. Same procedure applies where…
Reinvest – this legal term has two different meanings: First one is the act of recovering rights that have previously been taken away by governmental institutions. Second meaning is to invest money again into a concrete project, which initially ended.…
Reinstatement – this legal term finds application in the sphere of Labor law in some jurisdictions. It refers to the act of taking an employee, who has lost his job, back to the same job position. This act happens without…
Re-incarceration – within the meaning, given by the Criminal law in some jurisdictions, re-incarceration details secondary putting someone in prison for a committed crime. Usually this happens in cases where a criminal, released earlier from jail for good behavior, has…
Re-inscription – in the area of Real Estate Law, this term refers to re-entering a mortgage on real estate, after the end of previously agreed term. The re-inscription in order to happen it needs another event to occur – for…