Category: R

To exhibit; to expose before the eyes. To represent a thing is to produce it publicly. Dig. 10, 4, 2, 3. To represent a person is to stand in his place ;

That which is contrary to what is stated before, or insensible. A repugnant condition is void. Repntatio est vulgaris opinio nhi non est Veritas. Et vulgaris opinio est duplex, sell.: Opinio vulgaris

In old English law. A rescuer; one who commits a rescous. Cro. Jac. 419; Cowell.

The act of resisting opposition ; the employment of forcible means to prevent the execution of an endeavor in which force is employed. See U. S. v. Jose (C. C.) 63 Fed.

Eat. In pleading. The prayer of a plea where the defendant insists that he ought not to answer, as when he claims a privilege; for example, as being a member of congress

Confinement, abridgment, or limitation. Prohibition of action; holding or pressing back from action. Hindrance, confinement, or restriction of liberty. “What, then, according to a common unaer- standing, is the meaning of the

In international law. A species of retaliation, which takes place where a government, whose citizens are subjected to severe and stringent regulation or harsh treatment by a foreign government, employs measures of

L. Fr. An accusation or charge. St. Westm. 1, c. 2.

A term frequently used in the judgments of an appellate court, in disposing of the case before it. It then means “to set aside; to annul; to va- cate.” Laithe v. McDonald,

The recall of some power, authority, or thing granted, or a destroying or making void of some deed that had existence until the act of revocation made it void. It may be

(corrupted from trithinps.) Tlie names of the parts or divisions of York- shire, which, of course, are three only, viz., East hiding. North Riding, and West Riding.

The term “right of redemption,” or “right to redeem,” is familiarly used to describe the estate of the debtor when uuder mortgage, to be sold at auction, in contradistinction to an absolute

An ancient code of laws by which the Ripuarii, a tribe of Franks who occupied the country upon the Rhine, the Meuse, and the Scheldt, were governed. They were first reduced to

Fr. A word anciently used by sailors for the cargo of a ship. The Italian “roba” had the same meaning.

A tract of land in the county of Kent, England, containing twenty- four thousand acres, governed by certain ancient and equitable laws of sewers, composed by Henry de Bathe, a venerable judge

Fr. In French insurance law. The way that is taken to make the voyage insured. The direction of the voyage assured.

Days counted in their regular succession on the calendar, including Sundays and holidays. Drown v. Johnson, 10 Mees. & W. 334; dwell v. Rar- reda, 10 Gray (Mass.) 472; Davis v. Pender-

Lat. In the civil law. Things extracted from land; as sand, chalk, coal, and such other matters.

At the common law. One brought for the specific recovery of lands, tenements, or hereditaments. Steph. PI. 3; Crocker v. Black. 10 Mass. 448; Hall v. Decker, 48 Me. 250; Doe v.

Any person whose business it is to sell, or offer for sale, real estate for others, or to rent houses, stores, or other buildings, or real estate, or to collect rent for