Category: R

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.

A kind of lottery in which several persons pay, in shares, tlie value of something put up as a stake, and then determine by chance (as by casting dice) which one of

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.

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

A reward for services; remuneration for goods or other property.

Fr. In Norman law. To recite or testify on recollection what had previously passed in court This was the duty of the judges and other principal persons who presided at the placitum;

A writ of right of ward of the land and heir. Abolished.

Sax. Advice; counsel.

In old French and Canadian law. Dues payable by a teuant to his lord, not necessarily in money.

In English practice. A second extent made upon lands or tenements, upon complaint made that the former extent was partially performed. Cowell.

The act of a witness who consults his documents, memoranda, or books, to bring more dis- tinctly to his recollection the details of past events or transactions, concerning which he is testifying.