Rescue
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Rescue
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Meaning of Rescue
A common law action whereby a person who has lawfully distrained goods is deprived of the same. This form of action is now Obsolete. The act of forcibly and knowingly freeing a person from an arrest or imprisonment. In the law of negligence , rescue denotes a situation where the plaintiff has, under an exigency caused by the defendant 's wrongful conduct consciously and Deliberately faced a risk, even of death , to rescue another from imminent danger of personal injury or death. In such a situation, the doctrine of the assumption of risk voluntarily by the plaintiff does not apply.
Rescue Alternative Definition
In Criminal Law, The forcibly and knowingly freeing another from arrest or imprisonment. 4 BL Comm. 131. A deliverance of a prisoner from lawful custody by a third person. 2 Bish. Crim. Law, i 911. Taking and setting at liberty, against law, a distress taken for rent, services, or damage feasant. Bac. Abr. "Rescous." See "Resceu." In Maritime Law. The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by the enemy. There is still another kind of rescue which partakes of the nature of a recapture, it occurs when the weaker party, before he is overpowered, obtains relief from the arrival of fresh succors, and is thus preserved from the force of the enemy. 1 C. Rob. Adm. 224, 271; Halleck, Int. Law, cxxxv. "Rescue" differs from "recapture." The rescuers do not, by the rescue, become owners of the property, as if it had been a new prize, but the property is restored to the original owners by the right of postliminium.
Synonyms of Rescue
verb
aid
deliver
disenthrall
disimprison
emancipate
exsolvere
extricate
free
free from confinement
free from danger
let escape
let out
liberare
liberate
manumit
preserve
ransom
recapture
reclaim
recover
redeem
release
retake
retrieve
safeguard
salvage
save
set free
set loose
take to safety
unbind
unchain
unfetter
unloose
unshackle
untrammel Associated Concepts: Good Samaritan laws
rescue doctrine
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Rescue in Law Enforcement
Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of rescue.
Search and Rescue (Sar) Convention 1979 in Maritime Law
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The following is a definition of Search and Rescue (Sar) Convention 1979, produced by Tetley, in the context of admiralty law: The International Convention on Maritime Search and Rescue, adopted by the IMO (see this maritime law term in this legal dictionary) on April 27, 1979, which came into force June 22, 1985, as subsequently amended by a revised technical annex on May 18, 1998, which came into force January 1, 2006, and a group of amendments relating to persons in distress at sea, adopted on May 20, 2004, which came into force on July 1, 2006.
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Online translation of the English legal term rescue into Spanish: rescate (English to Spanish translation). More about legal dictionary from english to spanish online.
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Meaning of Rescue in the Past
The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by the enemy. There is still another kind of rescue which partake's of the nature of a recapture; it occurs when the weaker party before he is overpowered, gets relief from the arrival of fresh succors and is therefore, protectd from the force of the enemy. 1 Rob. Rep. 224; 1 Rob. Rep. 271.
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Rescue differs from recapture. (see this concept in the corresponding entry on this reference) The rescuers do not by the rescue become owners of the property (see more about this popular legal topic in the U.S. encyclopedia), as if it had been a new prize - but the property (see more about this popular legal topic in the U.S. encyclopedia) is restored to the original owners by the right of postliminium. (see this concept in the corresponding entry on this reference) [1]
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Notes and References
Partialy, this information about rescue is based on the Bouvier´s Law Dictionary, 1848 edition. There is a list of terms of the Bouvier´s Law Dictionary, including rescue.
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Concept of Rescue
In relation to securing dangerous material (in case of crisis or terrorism) a meaning of rescue may be outlined, in general regarding European law, as follows: Is the assisted removal of people unable to remove themselves from an area of greatest danger to a place of relative or complete safety.[1]
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Definition of rescue published by the European Commission
Rescue in Admiralty Law
For information on rescue in this context, see the entry on rescue in the maritime law encyclopedia.
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