Category: R

This word is sometimes used in law, though not commonly in modern times, as the equivalent of “recompense,” or a payment or compensation for services, property, use of an estate, or other

upon the account of the reve or bailiff of the manor. Spel. Feuds, c. 24.

The process of renewing the operative force of a judgment which has re- mained dormant or unexecuted for so long a time that execution cannot be issued upon it without new process

pan. In Spanish law. A nobleman; a count or baron. 1 White, Recop. 30.

A right of entry is the right of taking or resuming possession of land by entering on it in a peaceable manner.

A technical word, properly used in indictments for riot. It of itself implies force and violence. 2 Chit. Crim. Law, 4S9.

In old English law. A scold; a scolding or quarrelsome woman. 4 Bl. Comm. 168.

The portable or movable apparatus and machinery of a railroad, particularly such as moves on the road, viz., engines, cars, tenders, coaches, and trucks. Seo Benrdsley v. Ontario Bank, 31 Barb. (N.

Fr. In old French and Canadian law. A free tenure without the privilege of nobility; the tenure of a free commoner.

Flying or popular report; a current story passing from one person to an- other without any known authority for the truth of it. Webster. It Is not generally admissible in evidence. State

Fr. A trick iu war; a stratagem.

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