Category: R

A public and formal censure or severe reproof, administered to a person in fault by his superior officer or by a body to which he belongs. Thus, a member of a legislative

In Scotch law. Inferior fiefs; portions of a fief or feud granted out to inferior tenants. 2 Bl. Comm. 57. Rerum ordo oonfunditnr si nnicuique jurisdictio non servetur. 4 Inst. Proem. The

The receiving or harboring an outlawed person. Cowell.

See CONDITION.

To say that a person is “responsible” means that he is able to pay a sum for which he is or may become liable, or to discharge an obligation which he may

In practice. A second summons. The calling a person a second time to answer an action, where the first summons is defeated upon any occasion; as the death of a party, or

Fr. Return without protest. A request or direction by a drawer of a bill of exchange that, should the bill be dishonored by the drawee, it may be returned without protest.

Coming back to England before the term of punishment is determined.

A person who is entitled to an estate in reversion. By an extension of its meaning, one who is entitled to any future estate or any property in expectancy.

In old records. Realm, or kingdom.

In old European law. A species of service and tribute rendered to their lords by agricultural tenants. Supposed by Spelman to be derived from the name of a certain portion of land,

A trick variously practiced. One mode is as follows, the cir- cumstances being taken from 2 East, P. C. 678: The prisoner, with accomplices, being with their victim, pretend to find a

In insurance law; the danger or hazard of a loss of the property insured; the casualty contemplated in a contract of insurance; the degree of hazard; and, colloquially, the specific house, factory,

In English ecclesiastical law. The second week before Whit- sunday, thus called from three fasts observed therein, the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, called “Rogation days,” because of the extraordinary prayers then made

A kind of rushes, which some tenants were obliged by their tenure to furnish their lords withal. Cowell.

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.

Wines drawn from the lees. Cowell.

In French law and in Louisiana. A proceeding similar to hotchpot; the restoration to the succession of such property as the heir may have received by way of advancement from the decedent,

Lat. By reason of the matter involved; in consequence of, or from the nature of, the subject-matter.