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responsive action.Patents. A patent applicant’s answer to an examiner’s rejections in an office action. • To be responsive, the answer must address all of the examiner’s issues in detail, rather than merely submitting substitute claims. [Cases: Patents 108. C.J.S. Patents §§ 144, 148–151.] [Blacks Law 8th]

responsive,adj. Giving or constituting a response; answering <the witness’s testimony is not responsive to the question>. [Cases: Witnesses 248.C.J.S. Witnesses § 430.] [Blacks Law 8th]

responsible broker-dealer.See BROKER. [Blacks Law 8th]

responsibility,n.1.LIABILITY(1).2.Criminal law. A person’s mental fitness to answer in court for his or her actions. See COMPETENCY. [Cases: Mental Health 432. C.J.S. Criminal Law §§ 549–554.] 3.Criminal law. Guilt. — Also termed (in senses 2 & 3) criminal responsibility. — responsible,adj. “[As for] the ambiguities of the word ‘responsibility,’ … it is, I think, still…

response.Patents. A patent applicant’s answer to an office action, usu. countering the examiner’s rejections and objections and often amending the claims. [Cases: Patents 109. C.J.S. Patents §§ 152–155.] [Blacks Law 8th]

responsa prudentium (ri-spon-s<<schwa>> proo-den-shee-<<schwa>>m). [Latin “the answers of the learned”] Roman law. The opinions and judgments of eminent lawyers or jurists on questions of law addressed to them. • The responsa prudentium originally constituted part of the early Roman civil law. Roman citizens seeking legal advice, as well as magistrates and judges, often referred legal…

respondere non debet (ri-spon-d<<schwa>>-ree non deb-<<schwa>>t). [Latin] Common-law pleading. The prayer of a plea in which the defendant insists that he or she does not have to answer — because of a privilege, for example. [Blacks Law 8th]

responsalis (res-pon-say-lis). [Law Latin] 1.Hist. One who appears and answers for another. 2.Eccles. law. A proctor. See APOCRISARIUS. [Blacks Law 8th]

respondentia (ree-spon-den-shee-<<schwa>> or res-pon-). [Law Latin fr. Latin respondere “to answer”] A loan secured by the cargo on one’s ship rather than the ship itself. Cf. BOTTOMRY. [Cases: Shipping 88. C.J.S. Shipping § 221.] [Blacks Law 8th] RESPONDENTIA BOND respondentia bond.See BOND(2). [Blacks Law 8th]

respondent bank.See BANK. [Blacks Law 8th]