Category: R

The lex talionis, (q. v.)

Lat. In practice. An open and voluntary renunciation by a plaintiff of his suit in court, made wheu the trial is called on, by which he forever loses liis actiou, or is

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.)

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