Legal Definition and Related Resources of Rescous
Meaning of Rescous
An old term, synonymous with “rescue” (g. v.). In Canon Law. A term Including any form of apostolical letter emanating from the pope. The answer of the pope in writing. Diet. Dr. Canonique. In Civil Law. The answer of the prince, at the request of the parties, respecting some matter in dispute between them, or to magistrates, in relation to some doubtful matter submitted to him. The rescript was differently denommated according to the character of those who sought it. They were called “annotations or “subnotations,” when the answer was given at the request of private citizens; “letters” or “epistles,” when he answered the consultation of magistrates; “pragmatic sanctions,” when he answered a corporation, the citizens of a province, or a municipality. See “Code.” At Common Law. A counterpart. In Massachusetts it is used to denote the statement of the decision of the supreme judicial court as an appellate tribunal, and the accompanying brief statement of the reasons for the decision sent to the court from which the case was brought.
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Concept of “Rescous”
Traditional meaning of rescous in the French law history (with some legal use in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in French) Rescue; the forcible taking of goods distrained, or delivery of a prisoner; see 4th Book (“Of Public Wrongs”), Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England 131; May Cr. L.; § 160.
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- Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Rescous”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. It is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary. This term and/or definition may be absolete.
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