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  required reserve.See RESERVE. [Blacks Law 8th]

required-request law.A law mandating that hospital personnel discuss with a deceased patient’s relatives the possibility of an anatomical gift. • The Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (not in effect in all states) mandates a required-request law. [Blacks Law 8th]

required-records doctrine.The principle that the privilege against self-incrimination does not apply when one is being compelled to produce business records that are kept in accordance with government regulations and that involve public aspects. • Some courts have held that certain medical records and tax forms fall within this doctrine and are thus not protected by…

  request to read papers.See REQUEST. [Blacks Law 8th]

  request to charge.See REQUEST FOR INSTRUCTIONS. [Blacks Law 8th]

  request to be excused from a duty.See REQUEST. [Blacks Law 8th]

  request to admit.See REQUEST FOR ADMISSION. [Blacks Law 8th]

  request for reexamination.Patents. A formal process of asking the Patent and Trademark Office to review an in-force patent’s validity in light of prior-art references. • Anyone, including the patentee or an infringer, may request a patent’s reexamination. [Cases: Patents 140. C.J.S. Patents § 251.] [Blacks Law 8th]

  request for reconsideration.Patents. An applicant’s submission of further arguments after a patent claim’s rejection. [Cases: Patents 104.C.J.S. Patents §§ 145–147, 149–151, 173–175.] [Blacks Law 8th]

  request for production.Procedure. In pretrial discovery, a party’s written request that another party provide specified documents or other tangible things for inspection and copying. Fed. R. Civ. 34. — Abbr. RFP. — Also termed document request; request for production of documents; notice to produce; demand for document inspection. [Cases: Federal Civil Procedure 1551; Pretrial…