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ROGATIO TESTIUM,

in making a nuncupative will, is where the testator formally calls upon the persons present to bear witness that he has declared his will. Williams’ Ex’rs, 110; Browne, Prob. Br. 59.

ROOT OF TITLE

The document with which an abstract of title properly commences is called the “root” of the title. Sweet.

ROYAL

Of or pertaining to or proceeding from the king or sovereign in a mon- archical government.

RUNNING POLICY

A running policy is one which contemplates successive in- surances, and which provides that the object ‘of the policy may be from time to time defined, especially as to the subjects of

RACHIMBURGII

In the legal polity of the Salians and Ripuarians and other Germanic peoples, this name was given to the judges or assessors who sat with the count in his mallum, (court.) and

RAPE

In criminal law. The unlawful carnal knowledge of a woman by a man forcibly and against her will. Code Ga. See, e.g., What Are Crimes Against Humanity?

RATIONALIBUS DIVISIS

An abolished writ which lay where two lords, in divers towns, had seigniories adjoining, for him who found his waste by little and little to have been encroached upon, against the other,

REAFFORESTED

Where a deafforest- ed forest is again made a forest 20 Car. II. c. 3.

REBUT

In pleading and evidence. To rebut is to defeat or take away the effect of something. Thus, when- a plaintiff in an action produces evidence which raises a pre- sumption of the

RECHT

Ger. Right; justice; equity; the whole body of law ; unwritten law ; law; also a right. There is much ambiguity in the use of this term, au ambiguity which it shares

RECTUM

Lat Right; also a trial or accusation. Bract; Cowell.

REDEEMABLE

1. Subject to an obligation of redemption; embodying, or conditioned upon, a promise or obligation of redemption ; convertible into coin; as, a “redeemable currency.” See U. S. v. North Carolina, 136

REDUCE

In Scotch law. To rescind or annul.

REFINEMENT

A term sometimes employed to describe verbiage inserted in a pleading or indictment, over and above what is necessary to be set forth ; or an objection to a plea or indictment

REGISTER

rights which a king has by virtue of his prerogative. Hence owners of counties palatine were formerly said to have “jura regalia” in their counties as fully as the king in his

REGISTRATION

Recording; inserting in an official register; the act of making a list, catalogue, schedule, or register, particularly of an official character, or of making entries therein. In re Supervisors of Election (C.

REIMBURSE

The primary meaning of this word is “to pay back.” Philadelphia Trust, etc., Co. v. Audenreid, 83 Pa. 264. It means to make return or restoration of an equivalent for something paid,

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