Category: R

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.)

An abbreviation for Reyula Generalis, a general rule or order of court; or for the plural of the same.

A road or way on which iron or steel rails are laid for wheels to run on, for the conveyance of heavy loads in cars or carriages propelled by steam or other

Within the meaning of a tax law, this term means “taxable estate;” the real and personal property which the legislature designates as “taxable.” Marshfield v. Middlesex, 55 Vt. 546.

is where the members of a trade union cause the tools, clothes, or oth- er property of a workman to be taken away or hidden, in order to compel him to join

A faculty of the mind by which it distinguishes truth from falsehood, good from evil, and which enables the possessor to deduce inferences from facts or from propositions. Webster. Also an inducement,

The taking from an enemy, by a friendly force, a vessel previously taken for prize by such enemy. Receditur a placitis juris, potius quam in j urine et delicta maneant impunita.

In Scotch law. A petition of appeal or review of a judgment of the lord ordinary or other inferior court. Bell.

The renewal of amicable relations between two persons who had been at enmity or variance; usually implying forgiveness of injuries on one or both sides. It is sometimes used in the law

One of the justices of oyer and terminer, and a justice of the peace of the quorum for putting the laws in execution for the preservation of the peace and government of

A writ of right of dower whereof the widow had nothing, which lay where her deceased husband, having divers lands or tenements, had assured no dower to his wife, and she thereby

In a derivative sense, order carried to fastidious excess; system run out into trivial extremes. Webster v. Thompson, 55 Ga. 434.

In the civil law. An action for redhibition. An action to avoid a sale on account of some vice or defect in the thing sold, which renders its use impossible, or so

To bereave, take away, rob. Cowell.

The act of one who has, by law, a right and power of having or doing something of advantage, and declines it Also, the declination of a request or demand, or the

In Spanish law. One of a body, never exceeding twelve, who formed a part of the ayuntamiento. The office of re- gidor was held for life; that is to say, during the

Lat. General rules, which the courts promulgate from . time to time for the regulation of their practice.

The person upon whose complaint, or at whose instance, an information or writ of quo warranto is filed, aud who is quasi the plaintiff In the proceeding.

In feudal law, relieve is to depend; thus, the seigniory of a tenant in capite relieves of the crown, meaning that the tenant holds of the crown. The term is not common