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REP 
pears i -awl hence it is denominated line- 
drawing. It is a French word meaning the 
same thing, and is derived from tire Latin 
retrahere, or re, in, and trahere, because the 
seam is drawn in or covered. It is said, that 
ia the East Indies, if a piece of fine muslin is 
torn, and afterwards mended by the fine- 
drawers, it will be impossible to discover 
where tire rent was. In this country the 
dexterity of the fine-drawers is not so great 
as that (if those in the East; but it is still such 
as to enable them to defraud the revenue, 
by sewing a head or slip of English cloth on 
a "piece of Dutch, Spanish, or other foreign 
cloth; ora slip of foreign cloth on a piece of 
English, so as to pass the whole as of a piece, 
and by that means avoid the duties, penal- 
ties, &c. The trick was first discovered in 
France by M. Savary. 
Rentering, in tapestry, is tire working 
new warp into a piece of damaged tapestry, 
whether eaten by the rats or otherwise de- 
stroyed, and on this warp to restore the an- 
tient pattern or design. The warp is to be 
of woollen, not linen. Among the titles of 
the French tapestry-makers is included that 
of renterers. 
REN VERSE', inverted. See Heraldry. 
REPAR ATIONE FACIENDA, a writ 
which lies in divers cases, one of which is, 
w here three are tenants in common or joint 
tenants, as pro indiviso, of a mill or house 
which is fallen into decay, and the one being 
willing to repair it, the other two will not ; in 
this case, the party willing shall have this 
writ against the other two. F. N. B. 127. 
REPARATIONS. A tenant for life or 
years, may cut down timber trees to make 
reparations, although he is not compelled 
thereto ; as where a house is ruinous at the 
time of the lease made, and the lessee suf- 
fers it to fall, he is not bound to rebuild it, 
and yet if be fells timber for reparations he 
may justify the same. Co. Litt. 54. 
REPEAT, in music, a character shewing 
that what was last played or sung must be 
repeated or gone over again. 
REPELLENTS, medicines supposed to 
have the power of sending back into the mass 
of the blood such morbid humours as had 
been secreted from it. The term is now left 
out of the materia medica. 
REPERCUSSION, in mechanics. See 
Reflection. 
Repercussion, in music, a frequent re- 
petition of the same sound. 
REPERTORY, a place in which things 
are orderly disposed, so as to be easily found 
when wanted. The indexes of books are re- 
pertories, shewing where the matters sought 
for are treated of. Common-place books are 
also kinds of repertories. 
REPETEND, in arithmetic, denotes that 
part of an infinite decimal fraction, which is 
continually repeated. Thus in the numbers 
2.131313, the figures 13 are the repetend. 
These repetends chiefly arise in the reduc- 
tion of vulgar fractions to decimals, as = 
0.142857 1 42857 1 42857, and so on, forever. 
A single repetend is that in which only one 
figure repeats, a? ■§- =. 333 ; and a compound 
repetend is that in which two or more figures 
are repeated, as -|A =. 131313, &c. To find 
the value of any repetend, or to reduce it to a 
vulgar fraction, “ taken the given repeating 
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figure or figures for a numerator; and for 
tiie denominator, fake as many 9s as there 
are figures in the repetend: thus the fraction 
answering to 123123, &c. is 
REPETITION, in music, denotes a rei- 
terating or playing over again the same part 
of a composition, whether it is a whole strain, 
part of a strain, or double strain, &c. The 
repetition is denoted by a character called a 
repeat, which is varied so as to express the 
various circumstances of a repeat. 
Repetition, in rhetoric, a figure which 
gracefully and emphatically repeats either 
the same word, or the same sense in different 
words. 
REPLEADER. Whenever a repleader is 
granted, the pleadings must begin de novo 
at that stage oi them, whether it is the plea, 
replication, rejoinder, or whatever else, 
wherein there appears to have been the first 
default, or deviation from the regular course. 
When a repleader is aw arded, it must be with- 
out costs. 3 Black. 395. 
REPLETION. See Medicine. 
REPLEVIN, is the writ called replegiare 
facias by him who has cattle or other goods 
distrained by another, for any cause, and put- 
ting in surety to the sheriff, that upon delivery 
of tiie thing distrained, he will prosecute the 
action against the distrainer. Co. Lit. 12. 
In this writ or action, both the plaintiff 
and defendant are called actors ; the one, 
that is, the plaintiff, suing for damages, and 
the avowant or defendant to have a return of 
the goods or cattle. 2 Bond, 84. 
That the avowant is in the nature of a 
plaintiff, appears, 1st. from his being called 
an actor, which is a term in the civil law, and 
signifies plaintiff: 2dly, from his being enti- 
tled to have judgment de retorno habendo, 
and damages as plaintiffs ; 3dly, from this, 
that the plaintiff might plead in abatement of 
the avowry, and consequently such avowry 
must be in the nature of an action. Cartli. 
1 12 . 
Replevins by writ, issue properly out of 
chancery, returnable into the courts of K. B. 
and C. B. at Westminster. In order to ob- 
tain a replevin, application must be made to 
the sheriff; or one of his deputies, and securi- 
ty given that the party replevying will pur- 
sue his action against the distrainer ; for which 
purpose, by the antient law, he is required to 
put in pledges to prosecute ; and that if the 
right is determined against him, he will re- 
turn the distress again, for which purpose he 
is to find pledges to make return. These 
pledges are discretionary, and at the peril of 
the sheriff. 3 Black. 147. 
After the goods are delivered back to the 
party replevying, he is then bound to bring 
his action of replevin against the distrainer, 
which may be prosecuted in the county court, 
be the distress of what value it may; but either 
party may remove it to the superior courts of 
king’s-bench or common -pleas, the plaintiff 
at pleasure, and the defendant upon reason- 
able cause. 3 Black. 149. 
If the sheriff is shewn a stranger’s goods, 
and he takes them, an action of trespass lies 
against him, for otherwise he could have no 
remedy; for being a stranger he cannot have 
the writ de proprietate probanda ; and was he 
not intitled to this remedy, it would be in 
the power of the sheriff to strip a man’s house 
of all his goods. 2 Rol. Abr. 552. 
If it is determined for the plaintiff, namely, 
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that the distress was wrongfully taken, he lias 
already got his goods back into his own pos- 
session, and shaii keep them, and moreover 
recover damages. But if the defendant pre- 
vails by the default or nonsuit of the plain- 
tiff, then he shall have a writ de retorno ha- 
bendo, by which the goods or chattels which 
were distrained and then replevied, are re- 
turned again into his custody, to be sold, or 
otherwise disposed of, as it no replevin had 
been made. If the distress was for damage 
feasant, the distrainor may keep the goods so 
returned, until tender shall be made or suffi- 
cient amends. Rol. Abr. 146. 
On a retorno habendo awarded, the party 
desiring to have the cattle or goods restored, 
must shew them to the sheriff, tor otherwise 
the sheriff mav not know them. 
REPLICATION, in logic, the assuming 
or using the same term twice in the same pro- 
position. 
Replication, an exception or answer of 
the plaintiff in a suit to the defendant’s plea ; 
and is also that which the complainant replies 
to the defendant’s answer in chancery, &c._ 
The replication is to contain certainty, and 
not to vary from the declaration, but must 
pursue and maintain the cause ot the pla:n- 
tiff’s action ; otherwise it will be a departure 
in pleading, and going to another matter. 
1 Inst. 304. 
REPORT, in law, is a public relation of 
cases judicially argued, debated, resolved, or 
adjudged, in any of the king’s courts of jus- 
tice, with the causes and reasons of the same, 
as delivered by the judges. Also when the 
court of chancery, or any other court, refers 
the stating of a case, or the comparing ot an 
account, to a master in chancery, or other re- 
feree, his certificate thereon is called a re- 
port. 
REPOSE, in painting, certain masses or 
large assemblages of light and shade, which 
being well conducted, prevent the confusion 
of objects and figures, by engaging and fixing 
the eye so that it cannot attend to the other 
parts of the painting for some time ; and thus 
leading it to consider the several groups gra- 
dually proceeding from stage to stage. 
REPRESENTATION. There is an heir 
by representation, where the father dies, in 
the life of the grandfather, leaving a son, who 
shall inherit the grandfather’s estate before 
the father’s brother, &c. 
REPRIEVE, to suspend a prisoner from 
the execution and proceeding of the law at 
that time. Every judge who has power to 
order any execution, has power to reprieve. 
REPRISALS. See Letters of marque. 
REPRISE, or Reprize, at sea, is a mer- 
chant-ship, which, after its being taken by a 
corsair, privateer, or other enemy, is retaken 
by the opposite party. 
* If a vessel thus retaken has been 24 hours 
in the possession of the enemy, it is deemed 
a lawful prize ; but if it is retaken within that 
time, it is to be restored to the proprietor, 
with every thing in it, upon his allowing one- 
third to the vessel which made the reprise. 
Also if the reprise has heen abandoned by 
the enemy, either in a tempest or from any 
other cause, before it has been led into any 
port, it is to fie restored to the proprietor. 
REPRODUCTION, is usually under- 
stood to mean the restoration of a tiling be- 
fore existing, and since. destroyed. It is very 
well known that trees and plants may ^ 
