Category: R

In feudal law. Certain servitors who held tbeir land by serving tbeir lords on horseback. CowelL

In old English law. Persons who, ln the reign of Richard I., committed great outrages on the borders of England and Scotland. Said to have been the followers of Robert Hood, or Robin Hood. 4 Bl. Comm. 246

Ih old English law. A robber. Robbatorea et burglatores, robbers and burglars. Bract fiol. 115b

In maritime law. A known general station for ships, notoriously used as such, and distinguished by the name; and not any spot where an anchor, will find bottom and fix itself. 1 C. Rob. Adm. 232

A highway; an open way or pub-lic passage; a line of travel or communlca-tion extending from one town or place to another; a strip of land appropriated and used for -purposes of travel and communication between different places. See Stokes t. Scott

LaL In the civil law. A quarrel: a strife of words. Calvin

In old English law. A scold; a scolding or quarrelsome woman. 4 Bl. Comm. 168

In Frenob law. The shore, as of the sea

To have the liberty of a river for fishing and fowling. Cowell

Fr. In insurance law; the dissolution of a policy or contract of insurance for any cause. Emerig. Tralte des Assur. c. 16

Lat. Duly and formally; legal-ly; properly; technically

In Insurance law; the danger or hazard of a loss of the property Insured; the casualty contemplated in a eontract of insur-ance; the degree of hazard; and, colloquially, the specific house, factory, ship, etc., cor-ered by the policy

L. Lat In the civU law. A chest for the keeping of clothing. Calvin

Own-ers of lands bounded by a river or water-course

An nncient code of laws by wbich the Ripuaril, a tribe of Franks who occupied the country upon the Rhine, the Meuse, and the Scheldt, were governed. They were first reduced to writing by The-odorlc, king of Austrasia, and completed by Dagobert Spelman

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Lat. The banks of a river, or the place beyond w’hich the waters do not in thelr natural course overflow

A technical word, properly used in lndictments for riot. It of ltself implies force and violence. 2 Chit. Crim. Law, 489

L. Lat. Riotously. A form-al and essential word In old indictments for riots. 2 Strange, 834

In English criminal law. The unlawful assembling of twelve persons or more, to the disturbance of the peace, and not dispersing upon procla-mation. 4 Bl. Comm. 142; 4 Steph. Comm. 273. And see Madisonville v. Bishop, 113 Ky. 106, 67 S. W. 269, 57 L. R. A. 130

In criminal law. A tumultuous disturbance of the peace by three persons or more, assembling together of tbeir own au-, thority, wlth an lntent mutually to assist each other against any wbo shall oppose

A custom among commission merchants and brokers, (not unlike the clearing-house system) by wbich they ex-change contracts for sale against contracts for purchase, or reciprocally cancel such con-tracts, adjust differences of price between themselves, and surrender margins. See (ward v. Vosburgh (C. C.) 31 Fed. 12; williar *v. Irwin, 30 Fed. Cas. 38; Pardridge v. […]

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 cer-tain mottoes, selected by the serjeant about to take the degree. Brown

In criminal law. A trlck practised by a crimlnal, by which, on receiving a good piece of money in payment of an article, he pretends lt ls not good, and, changing it. returns to the buyer a spurious coin. See 2 Leach, 786; Bouvier

A cllque; an exclusive combina-tion of persons for illegitimate or selfish purposes; as to control elections or political af-falrs, distribute offices, obtain contracts, con-trol the market or the stock-exchange, etc. Schomberg v. walker, 132 Cal. 224, 64 Pac. 290

In medical jurispru-dence. Cadaveric rigidity; a rigidity or stif-fenlng of the muscular tissue and joints of the body, which sets in at a greater or less lnterval after death, but usually within a few hours, and which ls one of the recognlzed tests of death

Lat. Strictness of law. Latch, 150. Distinguished from gratia curia, favor of the court

Such as a man may acquire over external objects, or things unconnected with his person. 1 BL Comm. 122

See Petition

Rights which concern and are annexed to the persons ot men. 1 Bl. Comm. 122

An obsolete writ, which was brought for lands and tenements, and not for an advowson, or common, and lay only for an estate in fee-simple, and not for him who had a lesser estate; as tenant in tail, tenant in frank marriage, or tenant for life. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 1

In international law. The right of one vessel, on the high seas, to stop a vessel of another nationality and examine her papers and (in some cases) her cargo. Thus, ln time of war, a vessel of either belligerent has the right to search a neutral ship, encountered at sea, to ascertain whether the latter […]

The right of passage or of way is a servitude Imposed by law or by convention, and by virtue of which one has a right to pass on foot, or horseback, or

By the acts 3 & 4 Wm. IV. c. 15, and 5 & 6 VicL c. 45, the author of a play, opera, or musical composition, or his assignee, has the sole right of repre-senting or causing it to*be represented in public at any place ln the British dominions during the same period as the […]

In Scotch law. The right of a cautioner (surety) to demand reimbursement from the principal debtor when he has been compelled to pay the debt 1 BeU, Comm. 347

The mere right of property in land; the abstract right which remains to the owner after he has lost the right of possession, and to recover which the writ of right was given. United with possession, and the right of possession, this right constitutes a complete title to lands, tenements, and hereditaments. 2 Bl. Comm. […]

The right to possession which may reside in one man/ while another has the actual possession, be-ing the right to enter and turn out such ac-tual occupant; e. g., the right of a disseisee. An apparent right of possession is one which may be defeated by a better; an actual right of possession, one which […]

A right of entry is the right of taking or resuming possession of land b^ entering on it in a peaceable manner

In Scotch law. The right which each of several cautioners (sureties) has to refuse to answer for more than his own share of the debt To entitle the cautioner to this right the other caution-ers must be solvent, and there mnst be no words in the bond to exclude it. 1 Bell. Comm. 347

See Rectus in .CUBIA

This is a phrase frequently used iu place of chose in action, and having an Identical meaning

An abol-ished writ which lay for tenants ln ancient demesne* and others of a similar nature, to try the right of their lands and tenements in the court of the lord exclusively. 1 Steph. Comm. 224

A term of the stock-exchange, denoting the practice of inflating the price of given stocks, or en-hanclng their quoted value, by a system of pretended purchases, designed to give the air of an unusual demand for such stocks. See L. R. 13 Eq. 447

As a noun, and taken In an abstract sense, the term means justice, ethical correctness, or consonance with the rules of law or the principles of morals. In this sig

In old English law-After-county; i. e., after the end of the coun-ty court A time and place appolnted by the sheriff for the receipt of the king’s money after the end of his county, or county, court. Cowell

A coppice or thicket. Cow-ell

L. Fr. Nothing. It appears in a few law French phrases

In English law. one of the six clerks ln chancery who, ln hls turn for one year, kept the controlment books of all grants that passed the great seal. The six clerks were superseded by the clerks of records and writs

A half-castrated horse. Brls-co v. State, 4 Tex. App. 221, 30 Am. Rep

In Engllsh law. The offense of riding or going armed with dan-gerous or unusual weapons ls a misdemeanor tending to disturb the public peace by ter-rifying the good people of the land. 4 Steph. Comm. 357