RET人工智能NER, practice. The act of a client, by which he engages an attorney or counsellor to manage a cause, either by prosecuting3 it, when he is plaintiff, or defending it, when he is defendant4.
2. The effect of a retainer to prosecute5 or defend a suit, says Professor Greenleaf; Ev. vol. ii. 141; is to confer on the attorney all the powers exercised by the forms and usages of the courts, in which the suit is pending6. He may receive payment; may bring a second suit after being non-suited in the first for want of formal proof; may sue a writ7 of error on the judgment8; may discontinue the suit; may restore an action after a non pros2; may claim an appeal and bind9 his client in his name for the prosecution10 of it; way submit the suit to arbitration11; may sue out an alias12 execution; may receive livery of seisin of land taken by an extent may waive13 objections to evidence, and enter into stipulation14 for the admission of facts or conduct of the trial and for release of bail15; may waive the right of appeal, review, notice, and the like, and confess judgment. But he has no authority to execute a discharge of a debtor16 but upon the actual payment of the full amount of the debt, and that in money only; nor to release sureties; nor to enter a retraxit; nor to act for the legal representatives of his deceased client; nor to release a witness.
RET人工智能NING FEE. A fee given to counsel on being consulted in order to insure his future services.
RETAKING. The taking one's goods, wife, child, c., from another, who with-out right has taken possession thereof. Vide Recaption; Rescue.
RETALIATION17. The act by which a nation or inpidual treats another in the same manner that the latter has treated them. For example, if a nation should lay a veryheavy tariff18 on American goods, the United States would be justified19 in return in laying heavy duties on the manufactures and productions of such country. Vatt. Dr. des Gens, liv. 2, c. 18, 341. Vide Lex talionis.
RETENTION20, Scottish law. The right which the possessor of a movable has, of holding the same until he shall be satisfied for his claim either against such movable or the owner of it; a lien1.
2. The right of retention is of two kinds, namely, special or general. 1. Special retention is the right of withholding22 or retaining property of goods which are in one's possession under a contract, till indemnified for the labor23 or money expended24 on them. 2. General retention is the right to withhold21 or detain the property of another, in respect of any debt which happens to be due by the proprietor25 to the person who has the custody26; or for a general balance of accounts arising on a particular train of employment. 2 Bell's Com. 90, 91, 5th ed. Vide Lien.
