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

The abrogation or annulling of a previously existing law by the enactment of a subsequent statute which declares that the former law shall be revoked and abrogated, (which is called “express” repeal,)

An official or formal statement of facts or proceedings. In practice. The formal statement in writing made to a court by a master in chan- cery. a clerk, or referee, as the

A commonwealth; a form of government which derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the general body of citizens, and in which the executive power is lodged in officers chosen by

In Scotch law. One to rescind or aunul a deed or contract.

trator, after paying the debts and particular legacies of the deceased, and before paying over the residuum, must pass before the board of inland revenue, Mozley & Whitley.

1. To make or file an answer to a bill, libel, or appeal, in tbe character of a respondent, (q. v.) 2. To be liable or answerable; to make satisfaction or amends;

This term, as currently understood, means only, or chiefly, an eating- house; but it has no such fixed and definite legal meaning as necessarily to exclude Its being an “inn” in the

The lex talionis, (q. v.)

Lat. In practice. An open and voluntary renunciation by a plaintiff of his suit in court, made wheu the trial is called on, by which he forever loses liis actiou, or is

A criminal complaint charged that the defendant did “revel, quarrel, commit mischief, and otherwise behave in a disorderly manner.” Held, that the word “revel” has a definite meaning; i. e., “to behave

To review, re-examine for correction; to go over a thing for the purpose of amending, correcting, rearranging, or otherwise improving it; as, to revise statutes, or a judgment. Casey v. Harned, 5

otherwise TROUBLESOME. The casual ejector and fictitious de- fendant in ejectment, whose services are no longer invoked.

In Scotch law. The right which each of several cautioners (sureties) has to refuse to answer for more than his own share of the debt To entitle the cautioner to this right

In English criminal law. The unlawful assembling of twelve persons or more, to the disturbance of the peace, and not dispersing upon procla- mation. 4 Bl. Comm. 142; 4 Steph. Comm. 273.

Lat. In the civil law. A quarrel; a strife of words. Calvin.

A schedule of parchment which may be turned up with the hand in the form of a pipe or tube. Jacob. A schedule or sheet of parchment on which legal proceedings are