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REMEDIOS, rauia'Deos, or San Jian de los Eemedios. a town iu the Province of Santa Clara, Cuba. It is situated .'iO miles northeast of 4Sauta Chua, and 5 miles from the port of Caibarien, with which it is connected by rail, as it is with all the important towns of the island (Map: Cuba, 1" 4). Population, in 1899, 6(133.

REMEDY (from Ljit. rrmcdium, cure, from re-, back a;;ain, anew + iiicdcri. Av. mad, to heal). In Uiw, the means by which the violation or invasion of a legal right is either prevented, redressed, or compensated. The term in fact is the correlative of the term legal right, there being in general no right without a corresponding remedy for its violation. The term remedy, however, does not include punishment, and therefore has no application in the criminal law.

The various forms of remedy afforded by the law may be classified as: (1) Remedy by act of the injured party, or self-help: (2) remedy by operation of law; (3) remedy by action or suit.

(1) Remedy by the act of the injured party includes all those rights conferred by law on private persons to protect themselves or their property from injury, and in certain cases to redress wrongs done, without recourse to legal proceedings. In general, remedy by act of the party, or self-help, is permitted by law whenever the remedy afforded by action would be less effective and when the privilege thus accorded to the individual to take the law into his own hands is not inconsistent with sound public policy. Thus, in general, one may defend his person and property from unlawful attacks provided he use no more force than is necessary to accomplish that result. (See Self-Defense.) One who has been unlawfully deprived of his property may upon fresh pursuit forcibly retake the property, but if the pursuit is not made immediately following the wrongful taking, or if the property has passed into the hands of an innocent holder, his only remedy is by action to recover the property or damages for its conversion. Other forms of remedy by act of the injured party are distress, right of entry, and abatement of a nuisance.

(2) There is perhaps but a single true example of remedy by operation of law, and that is the ancient doctrine of remitter, which may briefly be stated as follows: At common law one who was dispossessed of his real estate under certain circumstances had a mere right of action to recover his property; he had no right to re-enter upon the property and thus acquire possession, his sole remedy being by action. If, however, he became entitled to the property by inheritance or purchase through the person wrongfully in possession, he was entitled to possession of the property, and upon taking possession under his new but defective title, he might then retain possession by virtue of his valid title. He was then said to be remitted to his rights under the valid title. The doctrine is of slight importance in modern practice.

(3) Remedy by action is the relief or redress afforded to one whose legal right has been invaded, by means of a legal proceeding carried on in a court having jurisdiction over the subject of the suit and the parties to it. See Procedure and Action.

For the discussion of the varied forms of remedies, see such titles as Distress; Forcible Extrt And Detainer; Nttisaxce; Egnxy: Chancery; Common Law, etc.. and consult the authorities referred to under sonic of these titles.

REMEDY OF LOVE, The. (1) A poem of the sixteenth century wrongly ascribed to Chaucer, and printed in the edition of 1532. (2) A paraphrase of Ovid's Hrmidy of Love by Sir Thomas Overbury, printed in 1020.

REM'ENSNYDER. .Jixus Benjamin (1843—). An American Lutheran (General Synod) clergyman, born in Staunton, Va., and educated at Pennsylvania College. Gettysburg (class of 18(il), and at Gettysburg Theological Seminary (1865). He held pastoral charges in Philadelphia, in Savannah, (Ja.. and in New York City; labored for the union of Lutheran sects, which was largely accomplished through his service, and published Doom IHcrnal (1880), Luther, His Work and Personality (1883), .Si>Dui/s of Creation (1886), and a Lutheran Manual (18921, which came into common use.

REMENYI, re'man-ye. Koiard (1830-98). An Hungarian violin virtuoso, he was born at Heves, and studied the violin under Joseph Biilun at the Vienna Conservatory, 1842 to 1845. He took part in the insurrection against Austria in 184S and fled from Hungary. He came to the United States in 1849, but in 1853 went to Weimar, and thence to England, where he was appointed solo violinist to Queen Victoria. In 1860 he was pardoned by the Austrian Government and returned to Hungary. He afterwards traveled extensively and visited Canada, Mexico, China, Japan, France, and Germany. He ranked among the foremost musical artists of his day, although his style was frequently so exaggerated as to mar the high standard of his work. In technique he has had few rivals. He died while on an American concert tour.

RE'MI. A powerful people of Belgic Gaul. who alone of the Belgse formed an alliance with C;Esar in his campaign of B.C. 57. Their capital became the modern Rheims.

REMIGITJS, re-mij'i-us. See Remy.

REM'INGTON, Frederic (1861—). An American sculptor, artist, and author, born at Canton, N, Y. He was educated at the Vermont Episcopal Institute, the Vale Art School, and the Art Students' League. New York City. Afterwards he lived on a ranch in the West. His pictures of Western subjects. especially cowboys and soldiers, soon became very popular. His statuettes include "The Broncho Buster" and "The Wounded Bunkie." They are spirited bronze-, executed with much technical skill, and his horse are notably fine. His stories also deal with Western life, and are illustrated by himself. They include Pony Tracks (1895)." C'roolced Trails (1898). and S'KHrfoiCH Lcftarc (1899).

REMINGTON, PuiLO (1816-89). An American manufacturer and inventor, born at Litchfield, X. Y. He studied at the Cazenovia Seminary and then entered his father's arms factory at ilion. N. Y. During the Civil War the Rem ingtons supplied small arms to the Federal Government, and at its close they formed a corporation under the title E. Remington & Sons. Soon afterwards they began to manufacture the breechloading rifle which bears their name. In 1871 the firm secured the right to om- of the first typewriters, but subsequently the manufacture both