Category: R

A writ for respiting a sher- iu’s account addressed to the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Reg. Orig. 139.

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.

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.

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.