Category: R

A recompense or premium offered by government or an individual in return for special or extraordinary services to be performed, or for special attainments or achievements, or for some act resulting to

A coppice or thicket Cowell.

A clique; an exclusive combination of persons for illegitimate or selfish purposes; as to control elections or political affairs, distribute offices, obtain contracts, control the market or the stock-exchange, etc. Schomberg v.

Properly the final adjournment of the court for the term, though the term is also sometimes used to express the cessation of judicial business for the day or for a recess; it

in making a nuncupative will, is where the testator formally calls upon the persons present to bear witness that he has declared his will. Williams’ Ex’rs, 110; Browne, Prob. Br. 59.

The document with which an abstract of title properly commences is called the “root” of the title. Sweet.

Of or pertaining to or proceeding from the king or sovereign in a mon- archical government.

A running policy is one which contemplates successive in- surances, and which provides that the object ‘of the policy may be from time to time defined, especially as to the subjects of

A rent of the full value of the tenement, or near it. 2 Bl. Comm. 43.

In criminal law. Plunder; pillage; robbery. In the civil law, rapina is defined as the forcible and violent taking of another man’s movable property with the criminal intent to appropriate it to

Lat. On account of inability. A ground of qualified property in some animals ferce naturw; as in the young ones, while they are unable to fly or run. 2 Bl. Comm. 3,

In common law. Relating to land, as distinguished from personal property. This term is applied to lands, tenements, and hereditaments. In the civil law. Relating to a thing, (whether movable or Immovable,)

In the law of evidence. A presumption which may be rebutted by evidence. Otherwise called a “disputable” presumption. A species of legal presumption which holds good until disproved. Best, Pres.

In French law. The state of an individual who commits a crime or misdemeanor, after having once been condemned for a crime or misdemeanor; a re- lapse. Dalloz.

He who enters Into a recognizance.

To register or enroll; to write out on parchment or paper, or in a book, for the purpose of preservation and perpetual memorial; to transcribe a document, or enter the history of

In old English law. The king’s right to prisage, or taking of one butt or pipe of wine before and another behind the mast, as a custom for every ship laden with

Lat. Right in court The condition of one who stands at the bar, against whom no one objects any offense. When a person outlawed has reversed his outlawry, so that he can

A yielding delivering back of a thing.

Lat In logic. The method of disproving an argument by showing .that it leads to an absurd consequence.