Category: R

Sports of dancing, masking, etc., formerly used in priuces’ courts, the inns of court, and noblemen’s houses, commonly performed by night. There was an officer to order and supervise them, who was

To renew, revivify; to make one’s self liable for a debt barred by the statute of limitations by acknowledging it; or for a matrimonial offense, once condoned, by committing another. See Lindsey

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

This abbreviation may stand either for “Revised Laws” or “Roman law.”

n law, this term is of ex actly equivalent import to “railroad.” See RAILWAY 990

Lat. In the civil law. To hold a thing ratified; to ratify or confirm it Dig. 46, 8, 12, 1.

In criminal practice. A material word in indictments for rape. Whart. Crim. Law,

Agreeable to reason; just; proper. Ordinary or usual

A receipt is the written acknowledgment of the receipt of money, or a thing of value, without containing any affirmative obligation upon either party to it; a mere admission of a fact,

A subdivision of a state created by legislative authority, for the purpose of reclaiming swamp, marshy, or desert lands within its boundaries and rendering them fit for habitation or cultivation, generally with

In the civil law. A rerewing of a former lease; relocation. Dig. 19, 2, 13, 11; Code Nap. arts. 1737-1740.

To deduct defalk, discount, set off, or keep back; to withhold part of a demand.

A writ of right, of the reasonable part, which lay between privies in blood; as brothers in gavelkind, sisters, and other coparceners, for land in fee-simple. Fitzh. Nat Brev. 9.