Category: R

A rogue; vagrant; whoremonger ; a person given to all manner of wickedness. Cowell.

In Scotch law. The right which the cautioner (surety) has to insist that the creditor shall do his best to compel the performance of the contract by the principal debtor, before he

L. Lat. Riotously. A formal and essential word in old indictments for riots. 2 Strange, S34.

A natural stream of water, of greater volume than a creek or rivulet, flowing in a more or less permanent bed or channel, between defined banks or walls, with a current which

In French mercantile law. The list of a ship’s crew; a muster roll.

A clause sometimes inserted in policies of marine insurance, to the effect that “if, on a regular survey, the ship shall be declared unseaworthy by reason of being rotten or unsound,” the

1. An established standard, guide, or regulation; a principle or regulation set up by authority, prescribing or directing action or forbearance; as, the rules of a legislative body, of a company, court,

In English ecclesiastical la . Very ancient officers of tlie church, almost grown out of use, until about the middle of the present century, about which time they were generally revived, whose

is used principally in the phrase “free entry, egress, and regress” but It is also used to signify the re-entry of a person who has been disseised of land. Co. Litt. 3186.

In the signatures of royal persons, “R.” is an abbreviation for “rex” (king) or “repina” (queen.) In descriptions of land, according to the divisions of the governmental survey. It stands for “range.”

A roll, called from one Ragimund or Ragimont, a legate In Scotland, who, summoning all the beneficed clergymen in that kingdom, caused them on oath to give in the true value of

In old English law. A rase; a measure of onions, containing twenty flones, and each flonis twenty-five heads. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 12,

In old law. The pleadings in a suit. Rationes ejeercere, or ad rationes stare, to plead.

A person who, in certain cases, is appointed to make a revalua tion or second appraisement of Imported goods at the custom-house.

A retaking, or taking back. A species of remedy by the mere act of the party injured, (otherwise termed “reprisal,”) which happens when any one has deprived another of his property in

Those that are made tame by art, industry, or education, whereby a qualified property may be acquired in them.

That part of the judgment in a “common recovery” by which the tenant is declared entitled to recover lands of equal value with those which were warranted to him and lost by

In old English law. A barrister or other person learned in the law, whom the mayor or other magistrate of any city or town corporate, having jurisdiction or a court of record

A writ of right of dower, which lay for a widow who had received part of her dower, and demanded the residue, against the heir of the husband or his guardian. Abolished.

With the marks of crime fresh on him.