Category: R

A judicial writ, similar to the retorno habendo. Cowell.

Reversion. A possibility of reverter is that species of reversionary interest which exists when the grant is so limited that it may possibly terminate. 1 Washb. Real Prop. 63. See FORMEDON IN

comprehended four gavels, and every gavel had four rliandirs, and four houses or tene- ments constituted every rhandir. Tayl. Ilist. Gav. 09.

created by law and depend upon civilized society; or they are those which are plainly assured by natural law (Borden v. State, 11 Ark. 519, 44 Am. Dec. 217); or those which,

A custom among commission merchants and brokers (not unlike the clearing-house system) by which they exchange contracts for sale against contracts for purchase, or reciprocally cancel such contracts. adjust differences of price

Lat. Duly and formally; legally; properly; technically.

A commission from one judge to another requesting him to examine a witness. See LETTER.

A term which includes oxen, cows, steers, heifers, and such like horned auimals. Cowell.

Roughness; incivility; violence. Touching another with rudeness may constitute a battery.

A silver coin of India, rated at 2s. for the current, and 2s. 3d. for the Bom- bay, rupee.

In French law. A term including the repairs made to a ship, and a fresh supply of furniture and victuals, munitions, aud other provisions required for the voyage. 3 Pard. Droit Commer.

In old English law. A writ for taking away an heir holding in socage, of which there were two sorts: One when the heir was married: the other when he was not.

Lat. This term describes a species of property in wild animals, which consists in the right which, by a peculiar franchise anciently granted bj the English crown, by virtue of its prerogative,

To convert any kind of property into money; but especially to receive the returns from an investment See Bitti- ner v. Gomprecht, 28 Misc. Rep. 218, 58 N. Y. Supp. 1011.

See EVIDENCE.

To state in a written instrument facts connected with its inception, or reasons for its being made. Also to quote or set forth the words or the contents of some other instrument

Precatory, advisory, or directory. Recommendatory words in a will are such as do not express the testator’s command in a peremptory form, but advise, counsel, or suggest that a certain course be

In American practice. A writ to bring up judgments of justices of the peace. Halcombe v. Loudermilk, 48 N. C. 491.

A writ of right, which was of so high a nature that as other writs in real actions were only to recover the possession of the land, etc., in question, this aimed

Lat In the civil law. Rejection of a witness, on the ground of incompetency. Best, Ev. Introd. 60,