Category: R

In Scotch practice. To replace; to restore to a former state or right. 2 Alis. Crim. Pr. 351.

In old records. Money paid by servile tenants for exemption from the customary duty of reaping for the lord. Cowell.

Rescission, or the act of rescinding, is where a contract is canceled, annulled, or abrogated by the parties, or one of them. In Spanish law, nullity is divided into absolute and relative.

Relating to the residue; relating to the part remaining.

The temporary suspension of the execution of a sentence; a reprieve; a delay, forbearance, or continuation of time. 4 Rl. Comm. 394; Mishler v. Com., 02 Pa. 55, 1 Am. Rep. 377.

The remedy or recourse which marine underwriters have against each other, according to the date of their assurances, or against the master, if the loss arise through his default, as through ill

The taking one’s goods, from another, who without right has taken possession thereof.

Fr. In old French and Canadian law. The taking back of a fief by the seignior, in case of alienation by the vassal. A right of pre-emption by the seignior, in case

In Saxon law. The court of the revc. reeve, or shire reeve. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 6.

An offense against religion punishable in England by fine and imprisonment 4 Steph. Comm. 208.

A rogue; vagrant; whoremonger ; a person given to all manner of wickedness. Cowell.

In Scotch law. The right which the cautioner (surety) has to insist that the creditor shall do his best to compel the performance of the contract by the principal debtor, before he

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

In French mercantile law. The list of a ship’s crew; a muster roll.

A clause sometimes inserted in policies of marine insurance, to the effect that “if, on a regular survey, the ship shall be declared unseaworthy by reason of being rotten or unsound,” the

1. An established standard, guide, or regulation; a principle or regulation set up by authority, prescribing or directing action or forbearance; as, the rules of a legislative body, of a company, court,

In English ecclesiastical la . Very ancient officers of tlie church, almost grown out of use, until about the middle of the present century, about which time they were generally revived, whose

is used principally in the phrase “free entry, egress, and regress” but It is also used to signify the re-entry of a person who has been disseised of land. Co. Litt. 3186.

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.”