REN 
of fieri facias, and extent for debts due 
to the King, either in the pipe or with 
the auditors ; and process for all such reve- 
nue as is due to the King, on account of his 
tenures. He takes the account of sherilFs ; 
and also keeps a record, by which it ap- 
pears whether the sheriffs or other ae- 
countants pay their prefers due at Easter 
and Michaelmas : and at the same time he 
makes a record, whereby the sheriffs or 
other accountants keep their prefixed days. 
There are likewise brought into his office 
all the accounts of customers, comptrollers, 
and accountants, in order to make entry 
thereof on record ; also all estreats and 
amercements are certified here, &c. 
The Remembrancer of the First Fruits 
takes all compositions and bonds for the 
payment of first fruits and tenths, and makes 
out process against such as do not pay the 
same. 
REMITTER, a term in law, which im- 
plies that a person having a right is dispos- 
sessed, and then by a bad title, different 
from his former one, gets possession. He 
is then said to be remitted to his former 
title, or to be in by remitter, and cannot 
be turned out, although he gained his last 
possession by a bad title. 
RENDEZVOUS, in a military sense, the 
place appointed by the general, where all 
the troops that compose the army are to 
meet at the time appointed, in case of an 
alarm. This place should be fixed upon 
according to the situation of the ground and 
the sort of troops quartered in the village. 
In an open country it is easy to fix upon a 
place of rendezvous, because tlie general 
has whatever ground he thinks necessary. 
In towns and villages the largest streets, or 
market-places, are very fit ; but let the 
place be where it will, the troops must as- 
semble with ease, and be ready for the 
prompt execution of orders. 
RENE.4LMIA, in botany, so named 
from Paul Reneaume, physician at Blois, a 
genus of the Monandria Monogynia class 
and order. Natural order of Scitaminese. 
Cann®, Jussieu. Essential character : ca- 
lyx trifid ; nectary oblong ; calyx one-leafed, 
bursting into two or three irregular teeth ; 
anther sessile, opposite to the nectary; 
berry fleshy. There is but one species, viz. 
R. exaltata, a tree about twenty feet in 
height, having a straight trunk ; leaves 'five 
or six feet long, lanceolate, waved about 
the edge ; the raceme or bunch of flowers 
springs from the trunk above the root, , It 
is a native of Surinam. 
REP 
RENT, is a certain profit issuing yearly 
out of lands and tenements corporeal. There 
are at common law three kinds of rents ; 
rent service, rent charge, and rent seek. 
Rent service is where the tenant holds his 
land of his lord by fealty and certain rent ; 
or by homage, fealty, and certain rent ; or 
by other service and certain rent ; and it is 
called a rent service, because it has some 
corporal service incident to it, which at 
least is fealty. Rent charge is so called 
because the land for payment thereof is 
charged with a distress. Rent seek is where 
the land is granted without any clause of 
distress for the same. 
The time for payment of rent, and, con- 
sequently, for a demand, is such a conve- 
nient time before the sun-setting of the last 
day, as will be sufficient to have the money 
counted ; but if the tenant meet the lessor 
on the land at any time of the last day of 
payment, and tender the rent, that is suf- 
ficient tender, because the money is to be 
paid indefinitely on that day, and therefore 
a tender on that day is sufficient. The re- 
medy for non-payment of rent is by distress, 
or taking the goods and chattels, or by ac- 
tion of debt. See Woodfall’s Landlord and 
Tenant, or Tomlins’s Law Dictionary. 
REPELLING power. See Repulsion. 
REPETEND, in arithmetic, denotes 
that part of an infinite decimal fraction 
which is continually repeated ad infinitum. 
Repetends chiefly arise in the reduction 
of vulgar fractions to decimals : thus 4 = 
0.333, &c. A single repetend is that in 
which only one figure is repeated, as in the 
instance just given. A compound repetend 
is that in whieh two or more figures are 
repeated. “ To find the value of any repe- 
tend, or to reduce it to a vulgar fraction.” 
Rule. Take the given repeating figure or 
figures for the numerator, and for the deno- 
minator, take as many 9’s as there are 
recurring figures or places in the given re- 
o 1 12^ 
petend: thus, 3 = - = g and 123 = — 
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333 
REPETITION, in rhetoric, a figure 
which gracefully and emphatically repeats 
either the same word, or the same sense in 
different words. In the use of this figure 
care is to be used that we run not into 
insipid tautologies, nor affect a trifling 
sound and chime of insignificant words. 
All turns and repetitions are so that do not 
contribute to the strength and lustre of the 
