How to register used macbook purchased from friend?

We purchased a used Macbook Pro from a friend for our girls. Need to re-register to obtain all apps already purchased through other Apple products. What do we do?

Need to re-register to obtain all apps already purchased through other Apple products
Could you re-phrase that question please?  (what apps and how "purchased through other Apple products"?)
If you purchased retail versions, you can only use those on one computer at a time. If you purchased them at the app store, you will need to sign in with your Apple ID and should be able to download them again (check the software license agreement, but I believe you can download apps a total of 5 times; the actual OS (Lion) can be downloaded on any computer you own or control).
Here is a link to the download page of all agreement for iTunes store, app store, etc:
http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/ww/
And the Software license agreements;
http://www.apple.com/legal/sla/

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