Category: R

Lat. In old English law. Ravished. A technical word in old indictments. 2 East, 30.

Lat. On account of the soil; with reference to the soil. Said to be the ground of ownership in bees. 2 Bl. Comm. 393.

A kingdom; a country. 1 Taunt. 270 ; 4 Camp. 289.

In International law. To summon a diplomatic minister back to his home court, at the same time depriving him of his office and functions.

Consequences, or which, though foreseeing such consequences, persists in spite of such knowledge. See Railroad Co. v. Bodemer, 139 111. 596, 29 N. E. 692, 32 Am. St. Rep. 218; Com. v.

in Scotland, where a party sues for a debt, and the defendant pleads compensation, i. e., set-off, the plaintiff may allege a compensation on his part; and this is called a “recompensa-

prevent any alteration of It 1 Ld. Rayin. 211. An order or allowance that the verdict returned on the nisi prius roll be recorded.

A writ which lay at common law, where a man had right of advowson of a church, and, the parson dying, a stranger had presented. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 30.

In the civil law. A species of exception or plea to the jurisdiction, to the effect that the particular judge is disqualified from hearing the cause by reason of interest or prejudice.

Lat Beturning; in returning ; while returning. 2 Strange, 985.

The damages or expenses caused by the dishonor and protest of a bill of exchange in a foreign country, where it was payable, and by its return to the place where it

In English law. A further or additional fee to counsel in a long case, which may be, but is not necessarily, allowed on taxation.

Lat In old English law. The royal way; the king’s highway, Co. Litt. 56a.

The ecclesiastical kingdom. 2 Hale, P. C. 324. Regnnm noil est divisibile. Co. Litt 165. The kingdom is not divisible.

In pleading. To answer a plaintiff’s replication in an action at law, by some matter of fact.

L. Lat Where a judgment was confessed by cognovit actionem after plea pleaded, aud the plea was withdrawn, it was called a “confession” or “cognovit actionem relict a veri/icatione.” Wharton.

In French law. The release of a debt

A sudden meeting; as opposed to a duel, which is deliberate.

In Spanish law, a judicial proceeding for the partition of property held in common. See Steinbach v. Moore, 30 Cal. 505.

In its general sense, a reply is what the plaintiff, petitioner, or other person who has instituted a proceeding says In answer to the defendant’s case. Sweet. On trial or argument. When