Category: R

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.

In Scotch practice. A book kept by the directors of chancery, in which are entered all non-entry and relief duties payable by heirs who take precepts from chancery. Bell.

Lat. In the civil law. Restoration or restitution to the previous condition. This was effected by the praetor on equitable grounds, at the prayer of an injured party, by rescinding or annulling

In old English law. Restraint; detainment; withholding.

This word is sometimes used in law, though not commonly in modern times, as the equivalent of “recompense,” or a payment or compensation for services, property, use of an estate, or other

upon the account of the reve or bailiff of the manor. Spel. Feuds, c. 24.

The process of renewing the operative force of a judgment which has re- mained dormant or unexecuted for so long a time that execution cannot be issued upon it without new process

pan. In Spanish law. A nobleman; a count or baron. 1 White, Recop. 30.

A right of entry is the right of taking or resuming possession of land by entering on it in a peaceable manner.

A technical word, properly used in indictments for riot. It of itself implies force and violence. 2 Chit. Crim. Law, 4S9.

In old English law. A scold; a scolding or quarrelsome woman. 4 Bl. Comm. 168.

The portable or movable apparatus and machinery of a railroad, particularly such as moves on the road, viz., engines, cars, tenders, coaches, and trucks. Seo Benrdsley v. Ontario Bank, 31 Barb. (N.

Fr. In old French and Canadian law. A free tenure without the privilege of nobility; the tenure of a free commoner.

To have currency or legal validity in a prescribed territory; as, the writ runs throughout the county. To have applicability or legal effect during a prescribed period of time; as, the statute

Lat. In feudal law. Natives of a conquered country. In old English law. Inferior country tenants, churls, or cliorls, who held cottages and lands by the services of plowing, and other labors

This abbreviation may stand either for “Revised Laws” or “Roman law.”

n law, this term is of ex actly equivalent import to “railroad.” See RAILWAY 990

Lat. In the civil law. To hold a thing ratified; to ratify or confirm it Dig. 46, 8, 12, 1.

In criminal practice. A material word in indictments for rape. Whart. Crim. Law,

Agreeable to reason; just; proper. Ordinary or usual