REM 
clear out, detached from the rest, the work 
is c'alled a demi-basso. In architecture, the 
rehtvo or projecture of the ornaments, 
ought always to be proportioned to the 
magnitude of tlie building it adorns, and to 
tiie distance at which it is to be viewed. 
Relievo, or Relief, in painting, is the 
degree of boldness with which the figures 
seem, at a due distance, to stand out from 
the ground of the painting. The relievo 
depends much upon the depth of the sha- 
dow, and the strength of the light ; or on 
the height of the different colours, border- 
ing on one another ; and particularly on the 
difference of the colour of the figure from 
that of the ground. Thus, when the light is 
so disposed as to make the nearest parts of 
the figure advance, and is well diffused on 
the masses, yet insensibly diminishing, and 
tcrminatmg in a large spacious shadow, 
brouglit off insensibly, the relievo is said to 
be b Id, and the clair-obscure well under- 
stood. 
RELIGION, seditions words, in dero- 
gation of the. established religion, are in- 
didtable, as tending to a breach of the 
peace. 
REMAINDER, inlaw, is an estate limit- 
ed in lands, tenements, or rents, to be enjoy- 
ed after the expiration of another particular 
estate. As if a man seised in fee-simple 
grant lands to one for twenty years, and, 
af'er the determination of the said term, 
then to another, and his heirs for ever ; here 
the former is tenant for years, remainder 
to the latter in fee. Both interests are, in 
fact, only one estate ; the present term of 
years, and the remainder afterwards, when 
added together, being equal only to one 
estate in fee. When a remainder is limited 
in a will, it is sometimes called an execu- 
tory devise. This is not strictly a remain- 
der, but something in nature of a remainder, 
which, though informal and bad, as such, is 
held good as an executory devise. The doc- 
trine of remainders is very abstruse, chiefly 
from the difficulty of ascertaining from the 
form of the deed or will by which it is cre- 
ated, whether or not the remainder is con- 
tingent, and liable to be defeated. Where 
a remainder is limited after an estate tail, 
the tenant in tail can at all times, by suffer- 
ing a recovery, defeat the remainder, and 
get possession of the fee. This is called 
docking the entail, and it is allowed for the 
purpose of preventing limitations in perpe- 
tuity. For, otherwise, men of large landed 
estates would be enabled to tie up the in- 
heritance so strictly by will, that in a few 
REM 
years all the landed property in the king- 
dom wonld be vested for ever in certain 
families, and that circulation of wealth, 
which is the great spur to industry, would 
be wholly at an end. Hence would be in- 
troduced all the inconvenience of a system 
of casts similar to those in the East Indies, 
and in a short time there would be no 
change in the course of inheritances, ex- 
cept upon forfeitures for felony, or high 
treason, which would rarely occur. Or, 
perhaps, the consequence would be, that 
the inheritance of females not being for- 
bidden, the land would be so subdivided by 
different descents to coheiresses, that there 
would be no large estates in the country. 
This sufficiently evinces the wisdom of the 
law, which prevents bequests in perpetuity, 
and we have thought it better to notice this 
in a popular work, than to explain at length 
a term of art which unavoidably leads to 
the most abstruse reasoning. For further 
information, see Jacob’s Law Diet, by 
Tomlins, title Remainder ; Fearne's Essay 
on Remainders, and other works there 
cited. 
REMEMBRANCERS, anciently called 
clerks of the remembrance, certain officers 
in the Exchequer, whereof three are distin- 
guished by the names of the King’s Remem- 
brancer, the • Lord Treasurer’s Remem- 
brancer, and the . Remembrancer of the 
First Fruits. The King’s Remembrancer 
enters in his office all recognizances taken 
before the Barons, for any of. the King’s 
debts, for appearances or observances of 
orders ; he also takes all bonds for the King’s 
debts, &c. and makes out processes there- 
on. He likewise issues processes against 
the collectors of the customs, excise, and 
others, for their accounts ; and informations 
upon penal statutes are entered and sued 
in his office, where all proceedings in mat- 
ters upon English bills in the Exchequer 
Chamber remain. His duty further is to 
make out the bills of compositions upon pe- 
nal laws, to take the statement of debts ; 
and into his office are delivered all kinds of 
indentures and other evidences, which con- 
cern the assuring any lands to the crown. 
He, every year, in crasiino animarmn, reads 
in open court the statute for election of 
sheriffs ; and likewise openly reads, in 
court, the oaths of all the officers, when 
they are admitted. 
The Lord Treasurer’s Remembrancer is 
charged to make out process against all she- 
riffs, escheators, receivers, and bailiffs, for 
their accounts. He also makes out writs 
