Category: R

Coward or craven. The word pronounced by a combatant in the trial by battel, when he acknowledged himself beaten. 3 Bl. Comm. 340.

Great or predial tithes.

A surrendering or restoring ; also a judicial acknowledgment that the thing in demand belongs to the demandant, and not to the person surrendering Cowell.

The receiving satisfaction for an injury sustained.

I.at Referring individual or separate words to separate subjects; making a distributive reference of words in an instrument; a rule of construction.

Whales and sturgeons, so called in English law. as belonging to the king by prerogative when cast on shore or caught near the coast. 1 Bl. Comm. 290.

One who registers ; particularly, one who registers anything (e. g., a trade-mark) for the purpose of securing a right or privilege granted by law on condition of such registration.

In French and Scotch criminal law. The reinstatement of a criminal in his personal rights which he has lost by a judicial sentence. Brande. In old English law. A papal bull or

plied with the terms of the deed of trust.

To remand a prisoner, after a preliminary or partial hearing before a court or magistrate, is to scud him back to custody, to be kept until the hearing is resumed or the

This word is used in law chiefly as the antithesis of “proximate,” and conveys the idea of mediateuess or of the intervention of something else.

(Said to be corrupted from “rent-roll.”) In English law. A roll on which the rents of a manor are registered or set down, and by which the lord’s bailiff collects the same.

To replevy; to redeem a thing detained or taken by another by put ting in legal sureties.

In Contracts. A statement made by one of two contracting parties to the other, before or at the time of making the contract, in regard to some fact, circumstance, or state of

A person’s credit, honor, character, good name. Injuries to one’s rep- utation, which is a personal right, are defamatory and malicious words, libels, and malicious indictments or prosecutions. Reputation of a person

Fr. Resceit; receipt; the receiving or harboring a felon, after the com- mission of a crime. Britt. c. 23.

In criminal law, the offense of obstructing, opposing, aud endeavoring to prevent (with or without actual force) a peace officer in the execution of a writ or in the lawful discharge of

Lat. Answers of jurists; responses given upon cases or questions of law referred to them, by certain learned Roman jurists, who, though not magistrates, were authorized to render such opinions. These responsa

sent by post to a certain address, or unless the consent of a certain person or persons to the transfer or charge is obtained, or unless some other thing is done. Sweet.

In Scotch law. To return a writ to the office in chancery from which it issued.