Category: R

(Said to be corrupted from “rent-roll.”) In English law. A roll on which the rents of a manor are registered or set down, and by which the lord’s bailiff collects the same.

To replevy; to redeem a thing detained or taken by another by put ting in legal sureties.

In Contracts. A statement made by one of two contracting parties to the other, before or at the time of making the contract, in regard to some fact, circumstance, or state of

A person’s credit, honor, character, good name. Injuries to one’s rep- utation, which is a personal right, are defamatory and malicious words, libels, and malicious indictments or prosecutions. Reputation of a person

Fr. Resceit; receipt; the receiving or harboring a felon, after the com- mission of a crime. Britt. c. 23.

In criminal law, the offense of obstructing, opposing, aud endeavoring to prevent (with or without actual force) a peace officer in the execution of a writ or in the lawful discharge of

Lat. Answers of jurists; responses given upon cases or questions of law referred to them, by certain learned Roman jurists, who, though not magistrates, were authorized to render such opinions. These responsa

sent by post to a certain address, or unless the consent of a certain person or persons to the transfer or charge is obtained, or unless some other thing is done. Sweet.

In Scotch law. To return a writ to the office in chancery from which it issued.

The act of a sheriff, constable, or other ministerial officer, in delivering back to tbe court a writ, notice, or other paper, which he was required to serve or execute, with a

In Scotch law. The proprietor of an estate who grants a wadset (or mortgage) of his lands, and who has a right, on repayment of the money advanced to him, to be

Lat. It is recalled. This is the term, in English practice, appropriate to signify that a judgment is annulled or set aside for error in fact; If for error in law, it

L. Fr. Nothing. It appears in a few law French phrases.

Lat. Strictness of” law. Latch, 150. Distinguished from gratia curia:, favor of the court.

Owners of lands bounded by a river or watercourse.

A lineal measure of sixteen feet and a half, otherwise called a “perch.”

The fourth part of an acre in square measure, or one thousand two hundred aud ten square yards.

In pleading. A technical word in indictments, generally coupled with the word “riotously.” 2 Chit. Crim. Law, 488.

Where a lease provided that the tenancy should not be confined to any portion of the land granted, but allowed the tenant the use of all the land he could clear, it

In Scotch law. Ransom; corresponding to Saxon “wcregild,” a pecuniary composition for an offense. Skene; Jacob.