Category: R

In the legal polity of the Salians and Ripuarians and other Germanic peoples, this name was given to the judges or assessors who sat with the count in his mallum, (court.) and

In criminal law. The unlawful carnal knowledge of a woman by a man forcibly and against her will. Code Ga. See, e.g., What Are Crimes Against Humanity?

An abolished writ which lay where two lords, in divers towns, had seigniories adjoining, for him who found his waste by little and little to have been encroached upon, against the other,

Where a deafforest- ed forest is again made a forest 20 Car. II. c. 3.

In pleading and evidence. To rebut is to defeat or take away the effect of something. Thus, when- a plaintiff in an action produces evidence which raises a pre- sumption of the

Ger. Right; justice; equity; the whole body of law ; unwritten law ; law; also a right. There is much ambiguity in the use of this term, au ambiguity which it shares

He to whom one is bound in a recognizance.

A collection of Spanish colonial law, promulgated A D. 1680. See Schm. Civil Law, Introd. 94.

A newly-enlisted soldier.

Lat Right; also a trial or accusation. Bract; Cowell.

1. Subject to an obligation of redemption; embodying, or conditioned upon, a promise or obligation of redemption ; convertible into coin; as, a “redeemable currency.” See U. S. v. North Carolina, 136

In Scotch law. To rescind or annul.

A term sometimes employed to describe verbiage inserted in a pleading or indictment, over and above what is necessary to be set forth ; or an objection to a plea or indictment

rights which a king has by virtue of his prerogative. Hence owners of counties palatine were formerly said to have “jura regalia” in their counties as fully as the king in his

Recording; inserting in an official register; the act of making a list, catalogue, schedule, or register, particularly of an official character, or of making entries therein. In re Supervisors of Election (C.

Lat. Things intervening; that is, things done by one of the parties to a contract, in the faith of its validity, and with the assent of the other party, and which have

Lat. A kind of banishment known to the civil law, which differed from “deportatio” in leaving to the person his rights of citizenship.

In old English law. A remainder. Spelman. A perpetuity, or perpetual estate. Glan. lib. 7, c. 1.

Ned as a foundation from which indirect evidence may be drawn, by way of inference, have not a visible, plain, or necessary connection with the proposition eventually to be proved, such evidence

more commonly signify in the books a chattel real interest in land; a kind of estate growing out of the land, for life or years, producing an annual or other rent Bruce