Category: R

In English practice. A custom observed by serjeants at law, on being called to that degree or order. The rings are given to the judges, and bear certain mottoes, selected by the

In French law. The shore, as of the sea. In English law. A toll anciently paid to the crown for the passage of boats or vessels on certain rivers. Cowell.

Lat. In Roman law. I ask; I request. A precatory expression often used in wills. Dig. 30, 108, 13, 14.

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.

A kind of lottery in which several persons pay, in shares, tlie value of something put up as a stake, and then determine by chance (as by casting dice) which one of

Lat. In old English law. Ravished. A technical word in old indictments. 2 East, 30.

Lat. On account of the soil; with reference to the soil. Said to be the ground of ownership in bees. 2 Bl. Comm. 393.

A kingdom; a country. 1 Taunt. 270 ; 4 Camp. 289.

In International law. To summon a diplomatic minister back to his home court, at the same time depriving him of his office and functions.

Consequences, or which, though foreseeing such consequences, persists in spite of such knowledge. See Railroad Co. v. Bodemer, 139 111. 596, 29 N. E. 692, 32 Am. St. Rep. 218; Com. v.

in Scotland, where a party sues for a debt, and the defendant pleads compensation, i. e., set-off, the plaintiff may allege a compensation on his part; and this is called a “recompensa-

prevent any alteration of It 1 Ld. Rayin. 211. An order or allowance that the verdict returned on the nisi prius roll be recorded.

A writ which lay at common law, where a man had right of advowson of a church, and, the parson dying, a stranger had presented. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 30.

In the civil law. A species of exception or plea to the jurisdiction, to the effect that the particular judge is disqualified from hearing the cause by reason of interest or prejudice.

Lat Beturning; in returning ; while returning. 2 Strange, 985.

The damages or expenses caused by the dishonor and protest of a bill of exchange in a foreign country, where it was payable, and by its return to the place where it

In English law. A further or additional fee to counsel in a long case, which may be, but is not necessarily, allowed on taxation.

Lat In old English law. The royal way; the king’s highway, Co. Litt. 56a.