Category: R

A retaking, or taking back. A species of remedy by the mere act of the party injured, (otherwise termed “reprisal,”) which happens when any one has deprived another of his property in

Those that are made tame by art, industry, or education, whereby a qualified property may be acquired in them.

That part of the judgment in a “common recovery” by which the tenant is declared entitled to recover lands of equal value with those which were warranted to him and lost by

In old English law. A barrister or other person learned in the law, whom the mayor or other magistrate of any city or town corporate, having jurisdiction or a court of record

A writ of right of dower, which lay for a widow who had received part of her dower, and demanded the residue, against the heir of the husband or his guardian. Abolished.

With the marks of crime fresh on him.

In the civil law. The avoidance of a sale on account of some vice or defect in the thing sold, which renders it either absolutely useless or its use so in- convenient

In old English law. A ministerial officer of justice. His duties seem to have combined many of those now confided to the sheriff or constable and to the justice of the peace.

To repay or restore; to return money had by one party of another. See Rackl Iff v. Greenbush, 93 Me. 99, 44 Atl. 375; Maynard v. Mechanics’ Nat. Bank, 1 Brewst. (Pa.)

The murder of a sovereign ; also the person who commits such murder.

In old English law. The offense of buying or getting into one’s hands at a fair or market any provisions, corn, or other dead victual, with the intention of selling the same

A kinsman; a person connected with another by blood or affinity. A person or thing having relation or connection with some other person or thing; as, relative rights, relative powers, infra.

1. In feudal law. A sum payable by the new tenant, the duty being incident to every feudal tenure, by way of line or composition with the lord for taking up the

This term imports the doing of the act in question in a tardy, neg- ligent, or careless manner; but it does not apply to the entire omission or forbearance of the act

Fr. A place appointed for meeting. Especially used of places appointed for the assembling of troops, the coming together of the ships of a fleet, or the meeting of vessels and their

The abrogation or annulling of a previously existing law by the enactment of a subsequent statute which declares that the former law shall be revoked and abrogated, (which is called “express” repeal,)

A person who reports the decisions upon questions of law in the cases adjudged in the several courts of law and equity. Wharton.

A government in the republican form; a government of the people ; a government by representatives chosen by the people. See In re Duncan, 139 U. S. 449, 11 Sup. Ct. 573,

Rescue. The taking back by force goods which had been taken under a distress, or the violently taking away a man who is under arrest, and setting him at liberty, or otherwise

That which remains after any process of separation or deduction; a residue or balance. That which remains of a decedent’s estate, after debts have been paid and legacies deducted. See Parsons v.