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resolutions committee.See COMMITTEE. RESOLUTION TRUST CORPORATION Resolution Trust Corporation.A federal agency established to act as a receiver for insolvent federal savings-and-loan associations and to transfer or liquidate those associations’ assets. • The agency was created when the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation was abolished in 1989. — Abbr. RTC. See FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN…

resolution. 1.Parliamentary law. A main motion that formally expresses the sense, will, or action of a deliberative assembly (esp. a legislative body). • A resolution is a highly formal kind of main motion, often containing a preamble, and one or more resolving clauses in the form, “Resolved, That….” concurrent resolution.A resolution passed by one house…

res nullius (rays n<<schwa>>-lI-<<schwa>>s). [Latin “thing of no one”] A thing that can belong to no one; an ownerless chattel. [Blacks Law 8th]

res nova (rays noh-v<<schwa>>). [Latin “new thing”] 1. An undecided question of law. 2. A case of first impression. — Also termed res integra. See case of first impression under CASE. [Blacks Law 8th]

res non est integra (rays non est in-t<<schwa>>-gr<<schwa>>). [Latin] Hist. The original position has changed; performance has taken place (in whole or in part). [Blacks Law 8th]

res nec mancipi (rays nek man-s<<schwa>>-pI). [Latin “things not of mancipium”] Roman law. Property that can be transferred without a formal ceremony of mancipation. — Also termed things nec mancipi. [Blacks Law 8th]

res mobiles (rays moh-b<<schwa>>-leez), n. pl.[Latin] Civil law. Movable things; chattels personal. [Blacks Law 8th]

res merae facultatis (rays meer-ee fak-<<schwa>>l-tay-tis). [Law Latin] Scots law. A matter of mere power. “Res merae facultatis …. Such, for example, is the right which a proprietor has of building upon his own property, or which any one has of walking upon the seashore, or sailing upon the sea, or on any navigable river.…

res mancipi (rays man-s<<schwa>>-pI). [Latin “things of mancipium”] Roman law. Property, specifically Italic land with its rustic servitudes and beasts of draft or burden, that can be transferred only by a formal ceremony of mancipation. — Also termed mancipi res; things mancipi. See MANCIPATION. [Blacks Law 8th]

res litigiosae (rays li-tij-ee-oh-see), n. pl.[Latin] Civil law. Things that are in litigation; property or rights that are the subject of a pending action. [Blacks Law 8th]