Category: R

Fr. In old French and Canadian law. A free tenure without the privilege of nobility; the tenure of a free commoner.

Flying or popular report; a current story passing from one person to an- other without any known authority for the truth of it. Webster. It Is not generally admissible in evidence. State

Fr. A trick iu war; a stratagem.

This abbreviation may stand either for “Revised Laws” or “Roman law.”

n law, this term is of ex actly equivalent import to “railroad.” See RAILWAY 990

Lat. In the civil law. To hold a thing ratified; to ratify or confirm it Dig. 46, 8, 12, 1.

In criminal practice. A material word in indictments for rape. Whart. Crim. Law,

Agreeable to reason; just; proper. Ordinary or usual

A receipt is the written acknowledgment of the receipt of money, or a thing of value, without containing any affirmative obligation upon either party to it; a mere admission of a fact,

A subdivision of a state created by legislative authority, for the purpose of reclaiming swamp, marshy, or desert lands within its boundaries and rendering them fit for habitation or cultivation, generally with

In the civil law. A rerewing of a former lease; relocation. Dig. 19, 2, 13, 11; Code Nap. arts. 1737-1740.

To deduct defalk, discount, set off, or keep back; to withhold part of a demand.

A writ of right, of the reasonable part, which lay between privies in blood; as brothers in gavelkind, sisters, and other coparceners, for land in fee-simple. Fitzh. Nat Brev. 9.

Lat In conveyancing. Rendering; yielding. The technical name of that clause in a conveyance by which the grantor creates or reserves some new tiling to himself, out of what he had before

In the civil law. A defect in an article sold, for which the seller may be compelled to REDISSEISIN 1004

In the civil law. Reparation ; re-establishment of a building. Dig. 19, 1, 6. 1.

An abbreviation of “Regula Generalis,” a general rule, (of court.)

In French law. A system of rules or regulations.

According to rule; as distinguished from that which violates the rule or follows no rule. According to rule; as opposed to that which constitutes an exception to the rule or is not

In practice. A female relator or petitioner.