RET. 



will avoid all alienation made by the hoir. (Cro. Car. 102.) 

 If one be bail for a defendant, and before judgment he 

 leafes his lands; they fliali be liable to the bail, and judg- 

 ment by relation. 



By itat. 29 Car. II. c.' 3. § 16. writs of execution 

 (hall bind the property of goods taken in execution, 

 only from the time of their delivery to the officer. 

 Sale of goods of a bankrupt, by commiflioners, fliall 

 have rek.tion to the lirll adt of bankruptcy ; and be 

 good, notvvithllanding the bankrupt fells them afterwards. 

 (Stat. Jac. I. c. 15.) If a man buys cattle in a market, 

 which are (bolen, and felleth them out of the market, 

 though the cattle are afterwards brought into the market, 

 and the fecond bargain confirmed, and money paid, &c., 

 this bargain will not be good ; for it fhall have relation to 

 the beginning, which was unlawful. (Dyer 99.) Fines, 

 being but common alluranccs, (hall be guided by the in- 

 dentures precedent ; and the execution of them have relation 

 to the original aft. (Cro. Jac. iio.) Letters of admi- 

 niftration relate to the death of the inteilatc, and not to 

 the time when they were granted. 



So bills in Parliament to which the king aflents on the 

 lalt day of parliament, (hall relate and be of force from 

 the firll day thereof. Coke calls this Jia'io juris. 

 Rf.lation, in Mujic. See Relatio. 

 RELATIVE PiiorosiTiONS, are fuch as include fome 

 relation and comparifon. 



Thus, where the treafure is, there will the heart be ; 

 As much as thou haft, fo much thou art worth, &c. are 

 relative propofitions. 



Relative gravity, levity, motion, neceffity, place, /pace, 

 time, velocity. See the feveral fubftantives. 



Relative Terms, in Logic, are words which imply a 

 relation, or a thing confidered as compared to another. 



Relative terms include a kind of oppofitian between 

 them ; yet fo, as that the one cannot be without the 

 other. 



Such are father and fon, hujhand and ivije, king and 

 fiihjeds, &c. 



Relative, in Grammar, is a word or term, which in 

 the conftruftion anfvvers to fome word foregoing, called the 

 antecedent ; which fee. 



All relatives are faid to reciprocate, or mutually infer 

 each other ; and, therefore, they are often expreffed by 

 the genitive cafe. 



Relative Pronoun. See Pronoun. 

 RELATOR, in Latv, a rehearfer, or teller, applied 

 to an informer. See Information. 



RELAXATION, in Laiu, is ufed for a releafing. See 

 Release. 



In this fenfe, we fay the relaxation of an attachment in 

 the court of admiralty. 



The tenor of indulgence is a relaxation, or a diminution, 

 of the pains of purgatory. 



Relaxation, in Surgery, is a preternatural extenlion, 

 or ftraining of a nerve, tendon, mufcle, or the like ; either 

 through violence or weaknefs. 



Hernias are defcents or relaxations of the inteftines, &c. 

 From the fame caufe arife defcents or prolapfions of the 

 anus, &c. 



RELAY, a frelh equipage, horfe, &c. fent before, or 

 appointed to be ready, for a traveller to change, to make 

 the greater expedition ; as in riding polt. 



The term is boiTowed from the French, relais, which 

 iignifies the fame thing. In France, the general of the 

 ports entitles himfelf fuperintendant of the relays. 



Relay Horfis, in the Artillery, are horfes that march 



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with the artillery or baggage, and are ready to relieve 

 others, or to aflill in going up a hill, or through bad 

 roads, &c. 



Relavk, in Hunting, arc trL-(h fcts of dogs, or horfes, 

 or both, difpofed here and there for readinefi, in cafe the 

 jrame come that way, to be call oft, or to mount the 

 hunters in lieu of the former, which are fuppofed to want 

 refpile. , 



Relay, in 'lapejlry, is an opening k-ft in a piece of 

 tapedry, where the colours or figures are to be changed ; 

 becaufe on thole occafions, the workmen are changed ; or 

 elfe the places are left to be filled up, till the reft of the 

 work is done. See Tapestry. 



RELEASE, Relax ATio, in Law, denotes an inllru- 

 ment, by which edates, rights, titles, entries, adtions, and 

 other things, are fometimes extinguilhed and annulled, 

 fometimcs transferred, fometimes abridged, and even fome- 

 times enlarged : and it is a fpecies of conveyance which 

 jirefuppofes fome other conveyance precedent, and ferves to 

 enlarge, confirm, alter, rellrain, reflore, or transfer the 

 interell granted by fuch original conveyance. 



A releafe is either in faft or in law. A releafe infaS, is 

 that which the very words do exprefsly declare. 



A releafe in law, is that which acquits by way of con- 

 fequence, or intendment of law. A releafe is the giving or 

 difcharging of a right of aftion, which a man hath claimed, 

 or may claim, againll another, or that which is his : or it 

 is the conveyance of a man's mterell or right which he 

 hath to a thing, to another who hath pod'eifion of it, or 

 fome eftate in it. (4 New Abr.) According to Coke releafes 

 are diftinguilhed into exprefs releafes in deed, and thofe 

 arifing by operation of law ; and are made of lands and 

 tenements, goods and chattels ; or of aftions real, per- 

 fonal and mixed, (i Inft. 264.) Releafes of land may 

 enure, or take effeft, either, i. By way of enlarging an 

 ejlate, or enlarger I'ejlale : as if there be tenant for life or 

 years, remainder to another in fee, and he in remainder re- 

 leafes all his right to the particular tenant and his heirs, 

 this gives him the eftate in fee. (Litt. § 465.) But in 

 this cafe the releflee muft be in polleflion of fome eftate, 

 for the releafe to work upon : for if there be a lefl'ee for 

 years, and, before he enters and is in polleflion, the lefTor 

 releafes to him all his rights in the reverfion, fuch releafe is 

 void for want of pofleflion in the relell'ee. (Litt. § 459.) 

 But when it is faid, that a releafe, which enures by en- 

 largement, cannot work without a pofleflion, it muft be 

 underftood to mean, not that an aftual eftate in pofleflion is 

 neceflary, but that a " vefted interell" fuffices for fuch a 

 releafe to operate upon. By comparing this with the opera- 

 tion of a Lease and Releafe (which fee) it will be feen, 

 that not only eftatcs in pofleflion, but eliates in remainder 

 and reverfion, and all other incorporeal hereditaments, may 

 be effeftually granted and conveyed by leafe and releafe ; 

 but it is an inaccuracy to fay, that the releflees are, in thefe 

 cafes, in aftual pofleflion of the hereditaments : the right 

 expreflion is, that they are aftually vefted in him, by virtue 

 of the leafe in poffeltion and the ftatute. i Inft. 270. {a) 



To make releafes operate by enlargement, it is generally 

 necelTary, that the releflee, at the time the releafe is made, 

 (hould be in aftual pofl'elTion of, or have a vefted intereft in, 

 the lands intended to be releafed ; that there fhould be a 

 privity between him and the releffor ; and that the pofleflion 

 of the releflee (hould be notorious. 



2. By way of pajfing an ejlate, or mitter I'ejlate: as 

 when one or two co-parceners releafeth all her right 

 to the other, this pafl'eth the fee-fimple of the whole. 



(I Inft. 



