resume (as razuma)

[Fr.] A summing up, a condensed statement, an abridgment, a summary, a brief recapitulation. rě-şüme', v . t . & i. [French résumer , from Lat. resumo: re-back, again, and sumo to take; Sp.. resumir; Ital. resumere.] IMG:content-0533.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0534.png:[blocks in formation] 1. To summon or call again. 2. To recall, to recover. IMG:content-0535.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Law : (1) U. S. Law : The Resumption Act of January 14, 1875, fixed January 1, 1879, as the day on which special payments should be resumed. Resumption actually took place on December 17, 1878, when the premium on gold disappeared. (2) Eng . Law : The taking again by the Crown of such lands, tenements, ., as on false suggestion, or other error, had been granted by letters patent. "More than two hundred years had since elapsed with. out any Resumption Act."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xxiii.