Category: R

A term which, In its widest sense, includes all the kindred of the person spoken of. 2 Jarm. Wills, 061.

An increase of the land by the sudden withdrawal or retrocession of the sea or a river. Hammond v. Shepard, 186 111. 235, 57 N. E. 867, 78 Am. St Rep. 274;

In the civil law. A release of a debt It is conventional, when it is expressly granted to the debtor by a creditor having a capacity to alienate; or tacit, when the

In feudal law, “render” was used in connection with rents and her- iots. Goods subject to rent or heriot-serv- ice were said to lie in render, when the lord might not only

takes place when a person wTho has been expatriated regains his nationality.

In Scotch practice. To replace; to restore to a former state or right. 2 Alis. Crim. Pr. 351.

In old records. Money paid by servile tenants for exemption from the customary duty of reaping for the lord. Cowell.

Rescission, or the act of rescinding, is where a contract is canceled, annulled, or abrogated by the parties, or one of them. In Spanish law, nullity is divided into absolute and relative.

Relating to the residue; relating to the part remaining.

The temporary suspension of the execution of a sentence; a reprieve; a delay, forbearance, or continuation of time. 4 Rl. Comm. 394; Mishler v. Com., 02 Pa. 55, 1 Am. Rep. 377.

The remedy or recourse which marine underwriters have against each other, according to the date of their assurances, or against the master, if the loss arise through his default, as through ill

The taking one’s goods, from another, who without right has taken possession thereof.

Fr. In old French and Canadian law. The taking back of a fief by the seignior, in case of alienation by the vassal. A right of pre-emption by the seignior, in case

In Saxon law. The court of the revc. reeve, or shire reeve. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 6.

An offense against religion punishable in England by fine and imprisonment 4 Steph. Comm. 208.

A rogue; vagrant; whoremonger ; a person given to all manner of wickedness. Cowell.

In Scotch law. The right which the cautioner (surety) has to insist that the creditor shall do his best to compel the performance of the contract by the principal debtor, before he

L. Lat. Riotously. A formal and essential word in old indictments for riots. 2 Strange, S34.

A natural stream of water, of greater volume than a creek or rivulet, flowing in a more or less permanent bed or channel, between defined banks or walls, with a current which

In French mercantile law. The list of a ship’s crew; a muster roll.