Category: R

Passing it a second time through the proper office, whereupon it receives a new stamp. 1 Chit. Arch. Pr. 212.

1. The right of retainer is the right which the executor or administrator of a deceased person has to retain out of the assets sufficient to pay any debt due to him

Lat. The ebb or return of a tide. Cowell.

In old English law. The bailiff of a franchise or manor; an officer in parishes within forests, who marks the commonable cattle. Cowell.

A reconsideration; second view or examination; revision ; consideration for purposes of correction. Used especially of the examination of a cause by an appellate court, and of a second investigation of a

A piece of gold coin current for 10s.. in 1 lie reign of Henry VI., at which time there were half-rials and quarter-rials or rial- fartliings. In the beginning of Queen Eliza-

The right to bring suit; a legal right to maintain an action, growing out of a given transaction or state of facts and based thereon. Hibbard v. Clark, 56 N. H. 155,

In criminal law. A tumultuous disturbance of the peace by three persons or more, assembling together of their own authority. with an intent mutually to assist each other against any who shall

To have the liberty of a river for fishing and fowling. Cowell.

In English criminal law. An idle and disorderly person; a trickster; a wandering beggar; a vagrant or vagabond. 4 Bl. Comm. 109.

Small boroughs in England, which prior to the reform act, 1832, returned one or more members to parliament.

v. This verb has two significations: (1) to command or require by a rule of court; as, to rule the sheriff to return the writ, to rule the defendant to plead. (2)

The circuit of an archdeacon’s and rural dean’s jurisdictions. Every rural deanery is divided into parishes. See 1 Steph. Comm. 117.

For work and labor. 1 Comyns, IS.

A statute, so called, of justices assigned by Edward I. and his council, to go a circuit through all England, and to hear and determine all complaints of injuries done within five

The act of scraping, scratching, or shaving the surface of a written in- strument, for the purpose of removing certain letters or words from it. It is to be distinguished from “obliteration,”

Lat. By reason of tenure; as a consequence of tenure. 3 Bl. Comm. 230.

A brief term for real property ; also for anything which partakes of the nature of real property.

To revoke, cancel, vacate, or reverse a judgment for matters of fact; when it is annulled by reason of errors of law, it is said to be “reversed.”

To claim or demand back; to ask for the return or restoration of a thing; to insist upon one’s right to recover that which was one’s own, but was parted with conditionally