Category: R

A criminal complaint charged that the defendant did “revel, quarrel, commit mischief, and otherwise behave in a disorderly manner.” Held, that the word “revel” has a definite meaning; i. e., “to behave

To review, re-examine for correction; to go over a thing for the purpose of amending, correcting, rearranging, or otherwise improving it; as, to revise statutes, or a judgment. Casey v. Harned, 5

otherwise TROUBLESOME. The casual ejector and fictitious de- fendant in ejectment, whose services are no longer invoked.

In Scotch law. The right which each of several cautioners (sureties) has to refuse to answer for more than his own share of the debt To entitle the cautioner to this right

In English criminal law. The unlawful assembling of twelve persons or more, to the disturbance of the peace, and not dispersing upon procla- mation. 4 Bl. Comm. 142; 4 Steph. Comm. 273.

Lat. In the civil law. A quarrel; a strife of words. Calvin.

A schedule of parchment which may be turned up with the hand in the form of a pipe or tube. Jacob. A schedule or sheet of parchment on which legal proceedings are

The roll of Winton. An exact survey of all England, made by Alfred, not unlike that of Domesday ; and it was so called because it was kept at Winchester, among other

In American practice. This term is sometimes used, by metonymy, to denote a time or season in the judicial year when motions may be made and rules taken, as special terms or

Iu the civil law. A servitude annexed to a rural estate, (prwdium rusticum.)

An abbreviation for Reyula Generalis, a general rule or order of court; or for the plural of the same.

A road or way on which iron or steel rails are laid for wheels to run on, for the conveyance of heavy loads in cars or carriages propelled by steam or other

Within the meaning of a tax law, this term means “taxable estate;” the real and personal property which the legislature designates as “taxable.” Marshfield v. Middlesex, 55 Vt. 546.

is where the members of a trade union cause the tools, clothes, or oth- er property of a workman to be taken away or hidden, in order to compel him to join

A faculty of the mind by which it distinguishes truth from falsehood, good from evil, and which enables the possessor to deduce inferences from facts or from propositions. Webster. Also an inducement,

The taking from an enemy, by a friendly force, a vessel previously taken for prize by such enemy. Receditur a placitis juris, potius quam in j urine et delicta maneant impunita.

In Scotch law. A petition of appeal or review of a judgment of the lord ordinary or other inferior court. Bell.

The renewal of amicable relations between two persons who had been at enmity or variance; usually implying forgiveness of injuries on one or both sides. It is sometimes used in the law

One of the justices of oyer and terminer, and a justice of the peace of the quorum for putting the laws in execution for the preservation of the peace and government of

A writ of right of dower whereof the widow had nothing, which lay where her deceased husband, having divers lands or tenements, had assured no dower to his wife, and she thereby