Railway Co., 54 Conn
156, 5 Atl. 851.—Surplus earnings of a company or corporation
Terms beginning with "R" (401 total)
Railway Co., 61 Minn
423, 63 N. W. 1088. But this use ig not correct, as it is not the ver dict which creates an estoppel, but the judgment, and it is immaterial whether a jury participated in the trial or not.
Railway Co., 96 Fed
301, 37 C. C. A. 499, 48 L. R. A. 68; Faulkner v. Mining Co. Utah 437, 66 Pac. 799; Ruilroad Co. v. Touhey 67
Raley v. Umatilla County, 15 Or
172, 13 Pac. 890, 3 Am. St. Rep. 142, Express and implied conditions are also called by the older writers, respectively, conditions in deed (or in fact, the Law French term being conditions en fait) and conditions in law...
Ram Leg. Judgm
(Towns. Ed.). Ram’s Science of Legal Judgment, Notes by Townshend.
Rand, 94 N. Y. 1, 46 Am. Rep
112; Gholson v. State, 53 Ala. 521, 26 Am. Rep. 652; Campbell v. State, 28 Tex. App. 44, 11 S. W. 832;
Randolph’s Reports, vols
21-56 Kansas ;— Randolph's Reports, vols: 7-11 Louisiana Annual;—Randall’s Reports, vols. 52-71 Ohio State.
RANSOM
note one of the divisions of a state, and designates a row or tier of townships as they
RAPE
RAPE. In criminal law. The unlawful carnal knowledge of a woman by a man forcibly and against her will. Code Ga. § 4349; Gore v. State, 119 Ga. 418, 46 S. E. 671, 100 Am. St. Rep. 182; Maxey v. State, 66 Ark. 523, 52 S....
Rapids Water Co
v. Cedar Rapids, 118 Iowa, 234, 91 N. W. 1081; Johnson v. Okerstrom, 70 Minn. 303, 73 N. W. 147; Tulare Irrig. v. Cedar Rapids, 118 Iowa, 234, 01 N. W. 1081; Hinson v. Booth, 39 Fla... 333, 22 South. 687; Holmes v. Tall...
RAPINE
pillage; robbery. In the civil law, rapina fa defined as the forcible and violent taking of another man’s movable property with the criminal intent to appropriate it to the robber’s own use. A preetorian action lay f...
RAPUIT
Lat. In old English law. Ravished. <A technical word in old indictments. 2 East, 30.
RATAM REM HABERE
Lat. In the civil law. To hold a thing ratified; to rati-_ fy or confirm it. Dig. 46, 8, 12, 1.
RATIFICATION
RATABLE ESTATE. Within the meaning of a tax law, this term means “taxable estate;” the real and personal property — which the legislature designates as “taxable.” Marshfield v. Middlesex, 55 Vt. 346.
RATIONABILI PARTE BONORUM
A writ that lay for the wife against the executors of her husband, to have the third part of his goods after his just debts and funeral expenses had been paid. Fitzh. Nat.
RATIONE IMPOTENTIZ
Lat. On account of inability. A ground of qualified property in some animals fere nature; as in the young ones, while they are unable to fly or run. 2 BI). Comm. 3, 4.
RATIONE MATERIZ
Lat. By reason of the matter involved; in consequence of, or from the nature of, the subject-matter.
RATIONE PERSONZ
Lat. By reason of the person concerned; from the character of the person.
RATIONE PRIVILEGIL
Lat. This term describes a species of property in wild animals, which consists in the right which, by a peculiar franchise anciently granted by the English crown, by virtue of its prerogative, one man may have of killing...
RATIONE SOLI
Lat. On account of the soil; with reference to the soil. Said to be the ground of ownership in bees. 2 BI.
RATIONE TENURE
lL. Lat. By reason of tenure; as a consequence of tenure. 3 Bl. Comm. 230.
Raw
(or Rawle). Rawle’s Pennsylvania Reports.
Rawitzer, 57 Conn
583, 19 Atl. 884; Havens v. Hartford & N. R. Co., 28 Conn. 70.
Rawle, (Pa.) 90, 23 Am. Dec
102.—Water right. A legal right, in the nature of a cor poreal hereditament, to use the water of a natural stream or water furnished through a ditch or canal, for general or specific purposes, such as irrigation, minin...
Raxedale v. Seip, 32 La. Ann
435; Arkell v. Insurance Co., 60 N. ¥. 191, 25 Am. Rep. 168.
Raym
1476. 435, 437.—Aldermannus comitatus. The alderman of the county. According to Spelman, he held an office intermediate between that of an earl and a sheriff. According to other authorities, he was the same as the ear...
Raymond Granite Co., 189 Cal
128, 72 Pae. 91 (4) A road which is only open for the
Raymond, 186 Ill
407, 57 N. BE. 1066; Morewood v. Hollister, 6 N. Y. 309; Uhe v. Railway Co., 3 8S. D. 563, 54 N. W. 601; State v. Gordon, 8 Wash. 488, 36 Pac. 498.
Raymond, 2 Abb. Prac
(N. Y.) 196.—Express malice. Actual malice; malice in fact; a deliberate intention to commit an injury, evidenced by external circumstances. Sparf_v.
Raynolds v. Hanna (C. ©.) 55 Fed
800; Hubenthal v. Kennedy, 76 Iowa, 707, 38 N.
RAZE
RATIONALIBUS DIVISIS. 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, who had enc...
RAZE. To erase
8 How. State Tr. 154
RAZON
RAZON. In Spanish law. Cause, (causa.) Las Partidas, pt. 4, tit. 4, 1. 2.
RE
Lat. ‘In the matter of; in the case
Real Act
206. 268; Cowell. Bd 253.
Real chymin. [L
Fr. In old English law. The royal way; the king’s highway, (regia via.) —Real injury. In the civil law. An injury arising from an unlawful act, as distinguished ~from a verbal injury, which was done by words.
Real Prop
p. 138, § 123. p. 131, § 119. p. 264, § 277. This kind of common arises from no connection of tenure, and is against common right; it may commence by grant within time of memory, or, in oth - words, may be created a...
Reardon, 67 Kan
302, 72 Pac. 861, 100 Am. St. Rep. —Testatum execution. See TESTATUM.—General execution. A writ commanding an officer to satisfy a judgment out of any ‘personal property of the defendant. If authorizing him to levy...
REASON
records, the burden is said to be real. Bell.—
REASONABLE
REASONABLE. Agreeable to reason; just; proper. Ordinary or usual. —Reasonable act. Such as may fairly, justly, and reasonably be required of a party.—Reasonable and probable cause. Such grounds as justify any one in ...
REBELLIOUS ASSEMBLY. In Eng
lish law. <A gathering of twelve persons or more, intending, going about, or practicing unlawfully and of their own authority to thange any laws of the realm; or to destroy the inclosure of any park or ground inclosed, b...
REBUS SIC STANTIBUS. Iat. At
this point of affairs; in these circumstances.
REBUTTABLE PRESUMPTION. In
the law of evidence. A presumption which may be rebutted by evidence. Otherwise called a “disputable” presumption. A species of legal presumption which holds good until disproved. Best, Pres. § 25; 1 Greenl. Ev. § ...
REBUTTER
and proclamation, a “commission of rebellion” issued against him. 3 Bi. Comm. 444. —Rebellion, commission of. In equity
REBUTTING EVIDENCE
the part of ‘the defendant. Steph. Pl. 50; 8 BL Comm. 310. ,
RECENS INSECUTIO 996
receiving any property with the knowledge that it has been feloniously or unlawfully stolen, taken, extorted, obtained, embezzled, or disposed of. Sweet.
RECEPISSE DE COTISATION. In
French law. A receipt setting forth the extent of the interest subscribed by a member of a mutual insurance company. Arg. Fr. Merc. Law, 571.
RECEPTUS
Lat. In the civil law. The name sometimes given to an arbitrator, because he had been received or chosen to settle the differences between the parties. Dig. 4, 8; Cod. 2, 56.
RECESSUS MARIS
Lat. In old English law. A going back; reliction or retreat of the sea.
RECHIVING STOLEN GOODS
husband in certain cases. Litt. § 668; -Co.