Category: R

In old English law. Denying. 32 Hen. VIII. c. 2.

The redress of an injury ; amends for a wrong inflicted.

In pleading. A reply made by the plaintiff in an action to the defendant’s plea, or in a suit in chancery to the defendant’s answer. General and special. In equity practice, a

In ecclesiastical law. The interposition of objections or exceptions; as. to the competency of witnesses, to the due execution of instruments offered in evidence and the like.

menced between two others; as, In an action by tenant for life or years, be in the reversion might come in and pray to be received to defend the land, and to

Living or dwelling in a certain place permanently or for a considerable length of time. The place where a man makes his home, or where he dwells permanently or for an extended

Money or any property that can be converted into supplies; means of raising money or supplies; capabilities of raising wealth or to supply necessary wants; available means or capability of any kind.

Rests are periodical balancings of an account, (particularly in mortgage and trust accounts,) made for the purpose of converting interest iuto principal, and charging the party liable thereon with compound interest. Mozley

In practice. To engage the services of an attorney or counsellor to manage a cause. See RETAINER, 2.

In Spanish law. The right of revoking a contract of sale; the right of redemption of a thing sold. White, New Recop. b. 2, tit. 13, c. 2,

Lat In the civil and canon law. The defendant In an action or suit. A person judicially accused of a crime; a person criminally proceeded against. Ilalli- fax, Civil Law, b. 3,

To vest again. A seisin is said to revest, where it is acquired a second time by the party out of whom it has been divested. 1 Rop. Husb. & Wife, 353.

This, the earliest code or collection of maritime laws, was for- mulated by the people of tlie island of Rhodes, who. by their commercial prosperity and tlie superiority of their navies, had

See RECTUS IN CURIA.

In English practice. A custom observed by serjeants at law, on being called to that degree or order. The rings are given to the judges, and bear certain mottoes, selected by the

In French law. The shore, as of the sea. In English law. A toll anciently paid to the crown for the passage of boats or vessels on certain rivers. Cowell.

Lat. In Roman law. I ask; I request. A precatory expression often used in wills. Dig. 30, 108, 13, 14.

A term which includes oxen, cows, steers, heifers, and such like horned auimals. Cowell.

Roughness; incivility; violence. Touching another with rudeness may constitute a battery.

A silver coin of India, rated at 2s. for the current, and 2s. 3d. for the Bom- bay, rupee.