Repair Clamps
The magic repair clamps shown in Figs. 258 to 260, are used for holding various kinds of work in position, while repairing, soldering, etc. In addition to the uses shown in the illustrations, it is also applicable for dozens of operations that will suggest themselves to the possessor. It is so arranged that the end screws can be used as feet and the handles as a support (as shown in the illustrations), so that the tool with the work in it will stand up, leaving the operator free to use charcoal or asbestos block with one hand and the blow pipe with the other. It is especially valuable for holding dials, when soldering on feet.
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Repassant
in heraldry, a term applied when two lions or other animals are borne going contrary ways, one of which is passant, by walking toward the dexter side of the shield in the usual way, and the other repassant by going toward the sinister.
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Repeat
in music, a sign that a movement or part of a movement is to be twice performed. That which is to be repeated is generally included within dots in the spaces. When the performer does not, on repeating, go so far as the last dot sign, but finishes at a previous cadence, it is usual to write over the repeat, Da Capo, placing a pause and Fine over the chord at which the performer is to stop. See SEGNO.
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Repeating Rack
The rack in a repeater supplied with teeth by which the hours, quarters and minutes are struck.
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Repeating Slide
The slide by means of which the repeating train is wound from the outside.
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Repentance
or REPENTAUNCE, the act of repenting; the state of being penitent; sorrow or regret for what has been done or left undone by one's self; especially sorrow and contrition for sin; such sorrow for the past as leads to amendment of life; penitence, contrition. (Matt. ix: 13). Two kinds of repentance are recognized in the New Testament: "Repentance to salvation not to be repented of," which is characterized by "godly sorrow"; and repentance characterized by "the sorrow of the world that worketh death." (II Cor. vii: 9, 10).
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Replevin
a personal action whick lies to recover possession of goods or chattels wrongfully taken or detained, upon giving security to try the right to them in a court of law, and to return them if the suit be determined against the plaintiff. Originally a remedy peculiar to cases of wrongful distress, it is now applicable to all cases of wrongful taking or detention. Also the writ by which goods and chattels are replevined.
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Replica
in the fine arts, the copy of a picture, etc., made by the artist who executed the original.
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Repplier
AGNES, an American essayist; born in Philadelphia . Her published works include: "Books in 1859 and Men"; "Points of View"; "In the Dozy Hours"; "Essays in Idleness"; "Essays in Miniature"; "Varia"; and " Philadelphia: the Place and the People ." She also compiled a "Book of Famous Verse," "Americans and Others" and "The Cat" (1912). REPRESENTATIVE GOV'T 501 MENT, that form of government in which either the whole of a nation, or that portion of it whose superior intelligence affords a sufficient guarantee for the proper exercise of the privilege, is called on to elect representatives or deputies charged with the power of controlling the public expenditure, imposing taxes, and assisting the executive in the framing of laws. See CONSTITUTION.
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Representatives
HOUSE OF, one of the branches of the Congress, also known as the Lower House and the Popular House. The members of this branch are elected directly by popular vote. In it is vested by the National Constitution the sole right to originate laws concerning the finances of the country. The Committee on Ways and Means of the House is the original source of all tariff legislation, and all bills providing for the raising or expenditure of public moneys have their origin in the House. In each of these two forms of legislation the House has the limited co-operation of the Senate, viz., the Senate may amend a tariff bill or resolution appropriating public moneys in the line either of in-- creasing or decreasing specific amounts. The House has the privilege of passing on these Senate amendments, and if it declines to accept any part of such changes, it is customary to appoint a Conference Committee consisting of an equal number of members from the House and Senate, to whom the disputed subject is referred, and the report of this committee is generally accepted in the light of a compromise by both houses. The membership of the House is based on the population of the country as ascertained decennially by the census, and therefore changes every 10 years.
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Reprieve
the suspension or delay of the carrying out of a sentence (generally of death) on a prisoner. It is popularly but erroneously supposed to signify a permanent remission, or commutation of a capital sentence.
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Reprise
in maritime law, a ship recaptured from an enemy or pirate. If recaptured within 24 hours of her capture she must be restored to her owners in whole; if after that period, she is the lawful prize of her recaptors.
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Reptiles
. See Snakes
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Repton
a village of Derbyshire, England. Here was founded the first Christian church in Mercia, of which Repton for a while was the royal and episcopal capital. It was the seat from before 660 till its destruction by the Danes in 874 of a celebrated nunnery, as afterward of an Austin priory from 1172 till the Dissolution. Remains of this priory are incorporated in the buildings of the free grammar school, which, founded in 1556 by Sir John Porte, has risen to be one of the great English public schools.
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Repudiation
an unprincipled method for the extinguishment of a debt, by simply refusing to acknowledge the obligation. The 11th amendment of the Constitution of the United States prohibits citizens of another or a foreign State from bringing suits against a State in the federal courts; while the individual States, not being independent sovereigns, could only be called to account by a foreign power through the National Government. Reprisals or war are thus as impossible as a suit at law, and there is really no means by which the States can be compelled to recognize and meet their obligations. Twice in the his tory of the country have several States taken advantage of this condition of affairs once after the commercial crisis of 1839, in which the United States Bank stopped payment, and again in the years following the Civil War. In the latter period Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas were among the defaulters. Virginia, indeed, refused payment chiefly on the ground that no part of its existing debt had been allocated to West Virginia when the latter was separated as a State in 1863; and later acts of repudiation found a local justification in the same grievance.
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