Category: R

A rider, or rider-roll, signifies a schedule or small piece of parchment an- nexed to some part of a roll or record. It is frequently familiarly used for any kind of a

The right to disincumber property or to free it from a claim or lien; specifically, the right (granted by statute only) to free property from the incumbrance of a foreclosure or other

Belonging or relating to tlie bank of a river; of or on the bank. Land lying beyond the natural watershed of a stream is not “riparian.” Bathgate v. Irvine, 120 Cal. 135,

County, 10 Iowa, 175; Com. v. Gammons, 23 Pick. (Mass.) 202; Hutson v. New York, 5 Sandf. (N. Y.) 312; Stedman v. South- bridge, 17 Pick. (Mass.) 104; Horner v. State, 49

Lat. Pilgrims that traveled to Itoiue on foot.

Fr. In old French and Canadian law. A free tenant of land on services exigible either in money or in kind. Steph. Lect. 229. A free commoner; one who held of a

To have currency or legal validity in a prescribed territory; as, the writ runs throughout the county. To have applicability or legal effect during a prescribed period of time; as, the statute

Lat. In feudal law. Natives of a conquered country. In old English law. Inferior country tenants, churls, or cliorls, who held cottages and lands by the services of plowing, and other labors

An abbreviation for “Revised Statutes.”

State v. Brin, 30 Minn. 522, 10 N. W. 400; Millvale Rorough v. Evergreen Ry. Co., 131 Pa. 1, 18 Atl. 903, 7 L. R. A. 3G9; Massa ehnsetts L. & T.

Proportional or relative value, measure, or degree; the proportion or standard by which quantity or value is adjusted. Thus, the rate of interest is the proportion or ratio between the principal and

In criminal law. An unlawful taking of a woman, or of an heir in ward. Rape.

This is where an insurer procures the whole or a part of the sum which he has insured (i. e., contracted to pay in case of loss, death, etc.) to be insured

A name given In some of the states to a person who receives from the sheriff goods which the latter has seized under process of garnishment, on giving to the sheriff a

In French law and In Louisiana. Incarceration as a punishment for crime; a temporary, afflictive, and in- famous punishment, consisting In being con fined at hard labor in a penal institution, and

The name commonly given to the process of reorganizing, by acts of congress and executive action, the governments of the states which had passed ordinances of secession, and of re-establishing their constitutional

In practice. Defalcation or discount from a demand. A keeping back something which is due, because there is au equitable reason to withhold it. Torn- lins. Recoupment Is a right of the

A writ of right, when or because the lord haul remitted his court, which lay where lands or tenements in the seignory of any lord were in demand by a writ of

Lat. Giving the reason of his knowledge. In Scotch practice. A formal phrase used In depositions, preceding the statement of the reason of the witness’ knowledge. 2 How. State Tr. 715. Reddere,

take It back; a defect against which the seller is bound to warrant. Poth. Cont. Sale, no. 203.