Category: R

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,)

An official or formal statement of facts or proceedings. In practice. The formal statement in writing made to a court by a master in chan- cery. a clerk, or referee, as the

A commonwealth; a form of government which derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the general body of citizens, and in which the executive power is lodged in officers chosen by

In Scotch law. One to rescind or aunul a deed or contract.

trator, after paying the debts and particular legacies of the deceased, and before paying over the residuum, must pass before the board of inland revenue, Mozley & Whitley.

1. To make or file an answer to a bill, libel, or appeal, in tbe character of a respondent, (q. v.) 2. To be liable or answerable; to make satisfaction or amends;

This term, as currently understood, means only, or chiefly, an eating- house; but it has no such fixed and definite legal meaning as necessarily to exclude Its being an “inn” in the

The lex talionis, (q. v.)

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.