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REVOLT

The endeavor of the crew of a vessel, or any one or more of them, to overthrow the legitimate authority of her commander, with intent to remove him from his command, or

RIER COUNTY

In old English law. After-county; i. e., after the end of the county court. A time and place appointed by the sheriff for tlie receipt of the king’s money after the end

RIGOR MORTIS

In medical jurisprudence. Cadaveric rigidity; a rigidity or stiffening of the muscular tissue and joints of the body, which sets in at a greater or less interval after death, but usually within

RISCUS

L. Lat In the civil law. A chest for the keeping of clothing. Calvin.

ROGATIO

Lat. In Roman law. An asking for a law ; a proposal of a law for adoption or passage. Derivatively, a law passed by such a form.

ROY

L. Fr. The king. Roy est l’original de touts franchises. Keilw. 138. The king is the origin of all franchises. Roy n’est lie per ascun statute si il ne soit expressment nosme.

RACHIMBURGII

In the legal polity of the Salians and Ripuarians and other Germanic peoples, this name was given to the judges or assessors who sat with the count in his mallum, (court.) and

RAPE

In criminal law. The unlawful carnal knowledge of a woman by a man forcibly and against her will. Code Ga. See, e.g., What Are Crimes Against Humanity?

RATIONALIBUS DIVISIS

An abolished writ which lay where two lords, in divers towns, had seigniories adjoining, for him who found his waste by little and little to have been encroached upon, against the other,

REAFFORESTED

Where a deafforest- ed forest is again made a forest 20 Car. II. c. 3.

REBUT

In pleading and evidence. To rebut is to defeat or take away the effect of something. Thus, when- a plaintiff in an action produces evidence which raises a pre- sumption of the

RECHT

Ger. Right; justice; equity; the whole body of law ; unwritten law ; law; also a right. There is much ambiguity in the use of this term, au ambiguity which it shares

RECTUM

Lat Right; also a trial or accusation. Bract; Cowell.

REDEEMABLE

1. Subject to an obligation of redemption; embodying, or conditioned upon, a promise or obligation of redemption ; convertible into coin; as, a “redeemable currency.” See U. S. v. North Carolina, 136

REDUCE

In Scotch law. To rescind or annul.

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