Category: R

Regalities; royal property.

A covenant is said to run with the land when either the liability to perform it or the right to take advantage of it passes to the assignee of that land. Brown.

A rent of the full value of the tenement, or near it. 2 Bl. Comm. 43.

In criminal law. Plunder; pillage; robbery. In the civil law, rapina is defined as the forcible and violent taking of another man’s movable property with the criminal intent to appropriate it to

Lat. On account of inability. A ground of qualified property in some animals ferce naturw; as in the young ones, while they are unable to fly or run. 2 Bl. Comm. 3,

In common law. Relating to land, as distinguished from personal property. This term is applied to lands, tenements, and hereditaments. In the civil law. Relating to a thing, (whether movable or Immovable,)

In the law of evidence. A presumption which may be rebutted by evidence. Otherwise called a “disputable” presumption. A species of legal presumption which holds good until disproved. Best, Pres.

In French law. The state of an individual who commits a crime or misdemeanor, after having once been condemned for a crime or misdemeanor; a re- lapse. Dalloz.

He who enters Into a recognizance.

To register or enroll; to write out on parchment or paper, or in a book, for the purpose of preservation and perpetual memorial; to transcribe a document, or enter the history of

In old English law. The king’s right to prisage, or taking of one butt or pipe of wine before and another behind the mast, as a custom for every ship laden with

Lat. Right in court The condition of one who stands at the bar, against whom no one objects any offense. When a person outlawed has reversed his outlawry, so that he can

A yielding delivering back of a thing.

Lat In logic. The method of disproving an argument by showing .that it leads to an absurd consequence.

To correct, rectify, amend, remodel. Instruments inter partes may be reformed, when defective, by a court of equity. By this Is meant that the court, after ascertaining the real and original intention

To do homage or fealty to the sovereign by a bishop when he is invested with the regalia.

to real property. See Friedley v. Hamilton. 17 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 71, 17 Am. Dec. 638; Cas- tillero v. U. S

To place again in a former state, condition, or office; to restore to a state or position from which the object or person had been removed. See Collins v. U. S., 15

As a quality of evidence, “relevancy” means applicability to the issue joined. Relevancy is that which conduces to the proof of a pertinent hypothesis; a per- tinent hypothesis being one which, if

Remedy is the means by which the violation of a right is prevented, redressed, or compensated. Remedies are of four kinds: (1) By act of the party injured, the principal of which