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The respondent is the party against whom a petition is filed, especially one on appeal. The respondent can be either the plaintiff or the defendant from the court below, as either party can appeal the decision thereby making themselves the petitioner and their adversary the respondent.

Responsive pleading is a lawsuit or court case that refers to a pleading directly responding to the opposing party’s claim or complaint.

Restitution refers to both the return of something wrongfully taken, and to compensate for loss or injury.

Retainers are a type of compensation agreement with lawyers either for reserving their employment or as compensation for future services.

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A retrial is a new trial of a case to re-examine some or all of the matters from the concluded trial.

Retributivism is a theory of criminal punishment which states that wrongdoers should be punished for their wrongdoing proportionate to the severity of their crime rather than to deter future crime or to rehabilitate them. In other words, society seeks retribution from the wrongdoer and punishes them according to the perceived wrongfulness of their actions.

A reversible error is an error in trial proceedings that affects a party’s rights so significantly that it is grounds for reversal if the affected party properly objected at trial. Contrast with harmless error.

Review is the judicial examination of a lower court’s judgment by an appellate court to determine whether it was based on legal errors or, in rare ca

1) Revival is requesting a court to reinstate the force of a dormant judgment—i.e. a judgment that was issued and has since lapsed or expired. Also referred to as renewal of judgment in some jurisdictions. Many state statutes lay out how an individual can go about reviving a dormant judgment. For example, Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code Ch.

Overview:

There is a long and evolving history regarding the right to privacy in the United States. In the context of American jurisprudence, the Supreme Court first recognized the “right to privacy” in Griswold v. Connecticut (1965).