REPAIRS 



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REPLEVIN 



Repairs. By English law the 

 liability to execute the necessary 

 repairs to a house is entirely a 

 matter of contract. Cases have 

 been decided to the effect that the 

 tenant is liable to keep the house 

 wind and water-tight ; but it is 

 doubtful if this is good law. At 

 any rate, outside this there is no 

 liability in law on either landlord 

 or tenant, except in the case of 

 houses of the working classes. As 

 to such houses, the Housing and 

 Town Planning Act, 1909 (ss. 14 

 and 15), extending the provisions 

 of a former Act, enacts that in any 1 - 

 contract made for the letting of a 

 house (or part of a house) for habi- 

 tation at a rent not exceeding 

 40 in the county of London, 26 

 in a borough or urban district 

 with a last census population of 

 50,000 at least, and 16 elsewhere, 

 there is an implied condition at 

 the commencement of the tenancy 

 that the house is in all respects rea- 

 sonably fit for human habitation. 

 Further, there is an implied con- 

 tract by the landlord that the 

 house shall during the holding be 

 kept by him in all respects reason- 

 ably fit for human habitation. 



Where a tenant covenants to 

 keep a building in repair, it is 

 implied that he will put it in repair 

 first ; and not merely keep it as he 

 found it. The word repair does not 

 include decorative repair, unless 

 so specified ; except in so far as 

 painting and the like are necessary 

 to preserve the premises. Tenant- 

 able repair means such repair as 

 would satisfy a reasonable tenant, 

 having regard to the class and age 

 of the building. Thus, a landlord 

 or tenant who had agreed to keep a 

 house in tenantable repair would 

 be under very different liabilities 

 in respect of a 100-years-old house 

 and a new house. 



In Scotland, the landlord is, in 

 the absence of stipulation to the 

 contrary, liable to repair the house 

 in a reasonable manner, having 

 regard to its age and class. See 

 Landlord ; Rent ; Rent Restriction. 



Reparation (ultimately from 

 Lat. reparare, to repair). Compen- 

 sation for loss or damage. The 

 term reparations is applied to the 

 agreement under the treaty of Ver- 

 sailles, by which Germany under- 

 took to indemnify the Allies, and 

 particularly France and Belgium, 

 for material destruction and 

 damage done to property in the 

 occupied areas and elsewhere in 

 the course of the Great War. 



Part viii of the treaty, which 

 deals with reparations, is in itself 

 a formidable document, made up 

 of articles 231-247, and of seven 

 schedules, and occupying about 20 

 closely printed pages. The de- 



mands upon Germany took the 

 form of payments in gold and 

 securities, and in material of many 

 different kinds, including huge 

 quantities of coal, livestock, ma- 

 chinery, etc., as well as the replace- 

 ment of lost shipping, to the extent 

 of all German merchant vessels of 

 1,600 tons and over, and half those 

 of between 1,000 and 1,600 tons, in 

 addition to many other smaller 

 vessels. New construction up to 

 200,000 tons a year for a period of 

 years was also to be handed over. 

 . The details of all the arrangements, 

 and also Germany's capacity to 

 satisfy the demands in full, were 

 to be examined by an inter-allied 

 commission. From Nov. 11, 1918, 

 to April 30, 1921, Germany made 

 deliveries to the value of 

 284,500,000, including cash pay- 

 ments, ships, coal, dyestuffs, etc. 

 The parliament of Great Britain 

 passed a German Reparation 

 (Recovery) Act in 1921, under 

 which British importers of German 

 goods paid to the commissioners 

 of customs and excise such pro- 

 portion of the value, up to 50 p.c., 

 as the treasury determined. The 

 money so collected was paid into 

 a special fund and applied towards 

 the discharge of Germany's obliga- 

 tions. Later the duty was reduced 

 to 26 p.c. See Indemnity; Ver- 

 sailles, Treaty of ; N.V. 



Repertory Theatre. Theatre 

 with a permanent company of 

 actors, devoted to the performance 

 of an extensive number of plays, 

 old and new, each for a single oc- 

 casion, or for not more than three 

 or four times in uninterrupted suc- 

 cession. The Theatre Fran9ais (q.v. } 

 may be said to be the archetype 

 of the repertory theatre, of which 

 there are many on the Continent. 

 In Great Britain repertory theatres 

 have not had much vogue. The 

 Independent Theatre and The 

 Stage Society (q.v.) were pioneer 

 ventures in this direction, and more 

 recent experiments include those 

 made by J. H. Vedrenne and Gran- 

 ville Barker at the Court Theatre, 

 London, in 1904, and at The Savoy, 

 from Sept., 1907, to March, 1908 ; 

 that of Charles Frohman, at The 

 Duke of York's, in 1910; that of 

 The Manchester Players (q.v.), be- 

 ginning in Sept., 1907, at the Mid- 

 land Theatre, Manchester ; and 

 that of The Irish Players, at the 

 Abbey Theatre, Dublin (q.v.). See 

 Drama ; Stage ; Theatre ; consult 

 also The Repertory Theatre, a 

 Record and a Criticism, P. P. 

 Howe, 1910. 



Repin, ILYA EFIMOVITCH (1844- 

 1918). Russian painter. Born at 

 Chuguev, Kharkov, he studied at 

 the St. Petersburg Academy and 

 in Paris and Rome. He was the 



Charles Repington, 

 British soldier 



Elliott Ic Fry 



great pictorial historian of Russia 

 under the Romanoffs, painting 

 with a terrible forcefulness the 

 tragedy of what seemed the peo- 

 ple's destiny. Burlaki the men 

 who tow vessels along the Volga 

 1873, may be cited; The Return 

 from Siberia, 1884, has an even 

 more direct significance. Among 

 his portraits is one of Tolstoy. He 

 died July 17, 1918. 



Repington, CHARLES A COURT 

 (1858-1925). British soldier and 

 military critic. B. Jan. 29, 1858, he 

 was educated 

 at Eton, and 

 then at Frei- 

 berg and Sand- 

 fa u r s t. He 

 entered the 

 Rifle Brigade 

 in 1878, and 

 during the 

 next 20 years 

 served in 

 Afghanistan, 

 Burma, and 

 the Sudan. He spent some time in 

 the intelligence dept. of the war 

 office, after which he was for a 

 short time military attache at The 

 Hague. During the S. African War 

 he was on the staff of Sir Redvers 

 Buller, but he was soon invalided 

 home. In 1902 he left the army 

 and joined the staff of The Times 

 as military critic, transferring him- 

 self to The Morning Post in 1918. 

 Colonel Repington's writings, es- 

 pecially during the Great War, 

 were distinguished for their fresh- 

 ness of stjjle and knowledge of 

 military history. In 1919 he 

 published some Memoirs, and in 

 1920, The First World War, 

 1914-1918. which contained his 

 diaries. He died May 25, 1925. 



Replevin (Old Fr. re, again ; 

 plevine, warranty, from late Lat. 

 replegium). In English law, a per- 

 sonal action to recover possession 

 of goods or chattels taken or de- 

 tained unlawfully or without suffi- 

 cient cause. The replevin, or re- 

 delivery to the owner of the pledge 

 of the goods taken in distress, is 

 now granted by the registrar of the 

 county court of the district in 

 which it was taken, upon the 

 plaintiff giving security to try the 

 right to the goods forthwith, either 

 in the county court or in the high 

 court, and to restore them to the 

 distrainer if the suit is adjudged 

 against the plaintiff, after which 

 the distrainer may keep them until 

 his claim is satisfied, when he 

 must restore them to their owner. 

 Action of replevin, usually but not 

 solely applicable to distraint for 

 rent, is now almost obsolete, being 

 replaced by action for damages for 

 illegal distress. See Distress ; 

 Pound ; Rent 



