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Lat. A rude, unlearned, or unlettered tribunal; a term some- times applied to arbitrators selected by the parties to settle a dispute. See Underbill v. Van Cortlandt, 2 Johns. Ch. (N. Y.)

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.

In practice. A person to whom a cause pending in a court is referred by the court, to take testimony, hear the parties. and report thereon to the court. See REFER. And

An abbreviation of “Reg- istrarii Liber,” the register’s book in chancery, containing all decrees.

Lat The queen.

The act of regulating; a rule or order prescribed for management or government; a regulating principle; a precept. See Curry v. Marvin, 2 Fla. 415; Ames v. Union Pac. Ry. Co. (C.

In old conveyancing. A release; an Instrument by which a person re- linquishes to another his right in anything.

In Scotch law. A reletting or renewal of a lease; a tacit relocation is permitting a tenant to hold over without any new agreement In mining law. A new or fresh location

Tbe relation back of a later defective title to an earlier valid title. Re- mitter is where he who has the true property or jus proprietatis in lands, but is out of