Category: R

In old European law. A species of service and tribute rendered to their lords by agricultural tenants. Supposed by Spelman to be derived from the name of a certain portion of land,

A trick variously practiced. One mode is as follows, the cir- cumstances being taken from 2 East, P. C. 678: The prisoner, with accomplices, being with their victim, pretend to find a

In insurance law; the danger or hazard of a loss of the property insured; the casualty contemplated in a contract of insurance; the degree of hazard; and, colloquially, the specific house, factory,

In English ecclesiastical law. The second week before Whit- sunday, thus called from three fasts observed therein, the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, called “Rogation days,” because of the extraordinary prayers then made

A kind of rushes, which some tenants were obliged by their tenure to furnish their lords withal. Cowell.

Regalities; royal property.

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

Wines drawn from the lees. Cowell.

In French law and in Louisiana. A proceeding similar to hotchpot; the restoration to the succession of such property as the heir may have received by way of advancement from the decedent,

Lat. By reason of the matter involved; in consequence of, or from the nature of, the subject-matter.

At common law. The body of laws relating to real property. This use of the term is popular rather than tech- nical. In the civil law. A law which relates to specific

The introduction of rebut ting evidence; the stage of a trial at which such evidence may be introduced; also the rebutting evidence itself. Lux v. Haggiu, 69 Cal. 255, 10 Pac. 674.

Wills made by two or more persons in which they make re- ciprocal testamentary provisions in favor of each other, whether they unite in one will or each executes a separate one.

given his deposition, reads the same over and scrutinizes it, with a view to affirming his satisfaction with it as it stands, or to making such changes in it as his better

Am. St Rep. 391; Vidor v. Rawlins, 93 Tex. 259. 54 S. W. LOI’G.

Rectification of instrument. In English law. To rectify is to correct or define something which is erroneous or doubtful. Thus, where the parties to an agreement have determined to embody its terms

Lat. In old English law. Recovery; restitution by the sentence of a judge of a thing that has been wrongfully taken or detained. Co. Litt 154a. Recuperatio, i. e., ad rem, per

A regranting of land demised or leased.

In Scotch law. An action brought for the purpose of rescinding, annulling, or cancelling some bond, contract or other instrument in writing. 1 Forb. Inst pt. 4, pp. 158, 150. In French

437; De Voln v. De Voin, 76 Wis. 66, 44 N. W. 839. It is to be observed that “reform” is seldom, if ever, used of the correction of de- fective pleadings,