Category: R

L. Lat. Riotously. A formal and essential word in old indictments for riots. 2 Strange, S34.

A natural stream of water, of greater volume than a creek or rivulet, flowing in a more or less permanent bed or channel, between defined banks or walls, with a current which

A schedule of parchment which may be turned up with the hand in the form of a pipe or tube. Jacob. A schedule or sheet of parchment on which legal proceedings are

The roll of Winton. An exact survey of all England, made by Alfred, not unlike that of Domesday ; and it was so called because it was kept at Winchester, among other

In American practice. This term is sometimes used, by metonymy, to denote a time or season in the judicial year when motions may be made and rules taken, as special terms or

Iu the civil law. A servitude annexed to a rural estate, (prwdium rusticum.)

In the signatures of royal persons, “R.” is an abbreviation for “rex” (king) or “repina” (queen.) In descriptions of land, according to the divisions of the governmental survey. It stands for “range.”

A roll, called from one Ragimund or Ragimont, a legate In Scotland, who, summoning all the beneficed clergymen in that kingdom, caused them on oath to give in the true value of

In old English law. A rase; a measure of onions, containing twenty flones, and each flonis twenty-five heads. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 12,

In old law. The pleadings in a suit. Rationes ejeercere, or ad rationes stare, to plead.

A person who, in certain cases, is appointed to make a revalua tion or second appraisement of Imported goods at the custom-house.

A retaking, or taking back. A species of remedy by the mere act of the party injured, (otherwise termed “reprisal,”) which happens when any one has deprived another of his property in

Those that are made tame by art, industry, or education, whereby a qualified property may be acquired in them.

That part of the judgment in a “common recovery” by which the tenant is declared entitled to recover lands of equal value with those which were warranted to him and lost by

In old English law. A barrister or other person learned in the law, whom the mayor or other magistrate of any city or town corporate, having jurisdiction or a court of record

A writ of right of dower, which lay for a widow who had received part of her dower, and demanded the residue, against the heir of the husband or his guardian. Abolished.

With the marks of crime fresh on him.

In the civil law. The avoidance of a sale on account of some vice or defect in the thing sold, which renders it either absolutely useless or its use so in- convenient

In old English law. A ministerial officer of justice. His duties seem to have combined many of those now confided to the sheriff or constable and to the justice of the peace.

To repay or restore; to return money had by one party of another. See Rackl Iff v. Greenbush, 93 Me. 99, 44 Atl. 375; Maynard v. Mechanics’ Nat. Bank, 1 Brewst. (Pa.)