Category: R

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.

A collection of the ancient laws of Scotland. It is said to have been compiled by order of David I., king of Scotland, who reigned from A. D. 1124 to 1153. Hale,

In the English law of real property, when, after a person has made a grant, the property granted comes back to him, (e. g

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