Category: R

A term of the stock-exchange, denoting the practice of inflating the price of given stocks, or enhancing their quoted value, by a system of pretended purchases, designed to give the air of

In criminal law. A trick practised by a criminal, by which, on receiving a good piece of money in payment of an article, he pretends it is not good, and, changing it,

Fr. In insurance law; the dissolution of a policy or contract of insurance for any cause. Emerig. Traitfi des Assur. c. 16.

Lat. In Roman law. The proposer of a law or rogation.

Heathy ground, or ground full of liug; also watery aud moorish land. 1 Inst. 5.

A payment reserved by the grantor of a patent, lease of a mine, or similar right, and payable proportionately to the use made of the right by the grantee. See Raynolds v.

A covenant is said to “run with the reversion” when either the liability to perform it or the right to take advantage of it passes to the assignee of that reversion. Brown.

A political party. The term arose In England, in 1818, when the popular leaders, Hunt Cartwright, and others, sought to obtain a radical reform In the representative system of parliament. Bol- ingbroke

In old English law. A rav- isher. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 52,

Lat By reason of the person concerned; from the character of the person.

In foreign law. That quality of laws which concerns property or things, (quce ad rem spcctant.) Story, Confi. Laws,

In pleading. A defendant’s answer of fact to a plaintiff’s surrejoinder ; the third pleading in the series on REBUTTING EVIDENCE 995

The formal statement or setting forth of some matter of fact, in any deed or writing, in order to explain the reasons upon which the transaction is founded. The recitals are situated

In feudal law. A method of converting allodial land into feudal property. The owner of the allod surrendered it to the king or a lord, doing homage, and received it back as

A written account of some act, transaction, or instrument, drawn up, under authority of law, by a proper officer, and designed to remain as a memorial or permanent evidence of the matters

As used in the United States internal revenue laws, this term is not confined to a person who runs spirits through charcoal, but is applied to any one who rectifies or purifies

In English law. Persons who willfully absent themselves from their parish church, and on whom penalties were imposed by various statutes passed during the reigns of Elizabeth and James I. Wharton. Those

A repurchase; a buying back. The act of a vendor of property in buying it back again from the purchaser at the same or an enhanced price. The right of redemption is

The entering again into or resuming possession of premises. Thus in leases there is a proviso for re-entry of the lessor on the tenant’s failure to pay the rent or perform the

A name bestowed on the statutes 2 Wm. IV. c. 45, and 30 & 31 Vict c. 102, passed to amend the representation of the people in England and Wales; which Introduced