Legal Definition and Related Resources of Rescue

A common law action whereby a person who has lawfully distrained goods is deprived of the same. This form of action is now Obsolete . The act of forcibly and knowingly freeing a person from an arrest or imprisonment . In the law of negligence , rescue denotes a situation where the plaintiff has, under an exigency caused by the defendant ‘s wrongful conduct consciously and Deliberately faced a risk, even of death , to rescue another from imminent danger of personal injury or death. In such a situation, the doctrine of the assumption of risk voluntarily by the plaintiff does not apply .

In Criminal Law, The forcibly and knowingly freeing another from arrest or imprisonment. 4 BL Comm. 131. A deliverance of a prisoner from lawful custody by a third person. 2 Bish. Crim. Law, i 911. Taking and setting at liberty, against law, a distress taken for rent, services, or damage feasant. Bac. Abr. “Rescous.” See “Resceu.” In Maritime Law. The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by the enemy. There is still another kind of rescue which partakes of the nature of a recapture, it occurs when the weaker party, before he is overpowered, obtains relief from the arrival of fresh succors, and is thus preserved from the force of the enemy. 1 C. Rob. Adm. 224, 271; Halleck, Int. Law, cxxxv. “Rescue” differs from “recapture.” The rescuers do not, by the rescue, become owners of the property, as if it had been a new prize, but the property is restored to the original owners by the right of postliminium.

verb

• aid
• deliver
• disenthrall
• disimprison
• emancipate
• exsolvere
• extricate
• free
• free from confinement
• free from danger
• let escape
• let out
• liberare
• liberate
• manumit
• preserve
• ransom
• recapture
• reclaim
• recover
• redeem
• release
• retake
• retrieve
• safeguard
• salvage
• save
• set free
• set loose
• take to safety
• unbind
• unchain
• unfetter
• unloose
• unshackle
• untrammel Associated Concepts: Good Samaritan laws
• rescue doctrine

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Rescue in Law Enforcement

Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of rescue.

Search and Rescue (Sar) Convention 1979 in Maritime Law

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The following is a definition of Search and Rescue (Sar) Convention 1979, produced by Tetley, in the context of admiralty law: The International Convention on Maritime Search and Rescue, adopted by the IMO (see this maritime law term in this legal
dictionary) on April 27, 1979, which came into force June 22, 1985, as subsequently amended by a revised technical annex on May 18, 1998, which came into force January 1, 2006, and a group of amendments relating to persons in distress at sea, adopted on May 20, 2004, which came into force on July 1, 2006.

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Legal English Vocabulary: Rescue in Spanish

Online translation of the English legal term rescue into Spanish: rescate (English to Spanish translation) . More about legal dictionary from english to spanish online.

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• Law Enforcement Officer
• Police
• Law Enforcement Agency

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• rescue in A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Oxford University Press)
• rescue in the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
• A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis

Meaning of Rescue in the Past

The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by the enemy. There is still another kind of rescue which partake’s of the nature of a recapture; it occurs when the weaker party before he is overpowered, gets relief from the arrival of fresh succors and is therefore, protectd from the force of the enemy. 1 Rob. Rep. 224; 1 Rob. Rep. 271.

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Rescue differs from recapture. (see this concept in the corresponding entry on this reference) The rescuers do not by the rescue become owners of the property (see more about this popular legal topic in the U.S. encyclopedia), as if it had been a new prize – but the property (see more about this popular legal topic in the U.S. encyclopedia) is restored to the original owners by the right of postliminium. (see this concept in the corresponding entry on this reference) [1]

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Notes and References

1. Partialy, this information about rescue is based on the Bouvier´s Law Dictionary, 1848 edition. There is a list of terms of the Bouvier´s Law Dictionary, including rescue.

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Concept of Rescue

In relation to securing dangerous material (in case of crisis or terrorism) a meaning of rescue may be outlined, in general regarding European law, as follows: Is the assisted removal of people unable to remove themselves from an area of greatest danger to a place of relative or complete safety.[1]

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Notes and References

1. Definition of rescue published by the European Commission

Rescue in Admiralty Law

For information on rescue in this context, see the entry on rescue in the maritime law encyclopedia.

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