Category: R

In English law. The offense of riding or going armed with dan- gerous or unusual weapons is a misdemeanor tending to disturb the public peace by terrifying the good people of the

By the acts 3 & 4 Wm. IV. c. 15, and 5 & 0 Vict c. 45, the author of a play, opera, or musical composition, or his assignee, lias the sole

A suit is said to be “ripe for judgment” when it is so far advanced, by verdict, default, confession, the determination of all pending motions, or other disposition of preliminary or disputed

One who commits a robbery. The term is not in law synonymous with “thief,” but applies only to one who steals with force or open violence. See De Roths- child v. Royal

This term, in a general sense, comprehends all tlie laws which pre- vailed among the Romans, without regard to the time of their origin, including the col- lections of Justinian. In a

In Scotch law. A sale by auction. Bell.

An open unsettled account, as distinguished from a stated and liquidated account. “Running accounts mean mutual accounts and reciprocal demands between the parties, which accounts and demands remain open and unsettled.” Brackenridge

Lat. In maritime law. A rough or rude judgment or decision. A judgment iu admiralty dividing RUTA 1049

A tribe, people, or nation, belonging or supposed to belong to the same stock or lineage. “Race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” Const U. S., Am. XV.

Sax. In Saxon and old English law. Open theft, or robbery.

The confirmation of a previous act done either by the party himself or by another; confirmation of a voidable act See Story, Ag.

In Spanish law. Cause, (causa.) Las Partidas. pt. 4, tit. 4, 1. 2.

A second attachment of him who was formerly attached, and dismissed the court without day, by the not coming of the justices, or some such casualty. Reg. Orig. 35.

A receiver is an indifferent person between the parties appointed by the court to collect and receive the rents, issues, and profits of land, or the produce ot personal estate, or other

Ratification; confirmation ; an acknowledgment that something done by another person in one’s name had one’s authority. An inquiry conducted by a chosen body of men, not sitting as part of the

seems to be used to signify that a person has recovered an in- corporeal hereditament of which he had been wrongfully deprived. Thus, “A. is dis- seised of a maunor, whereunto an

The phrase “without recourse” is used in the form of making a qualified or restrictive indorsement of a bill or note. By these words the iudorser signifies that, while he transfers his

An abolished writ on disclaimer.

Lat. He has rendered himself. In old English practice. A term applied to a principal who had rendered himself in discharge of his bail. Holthouse.

In old English law. A second disseisin of a person of the same ten- ements, and by the same disseisor, by whom be was before disseised. 3 Bl. Comm. 188.