RETOUR SANS FRAIS
Fr. InFrench jaw. A formula put upon a bill of exchange to signify that the drawer waives protest, and will not be responsible for costs arising thereon. Arg. Fr. Merc. Law, 573.
Terms beginning with "R" (401 total)
RETRACTUS AQUZ
Lat. return of a tide. Cowell.
RETRAIT
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 séignior, in case of sale of the land by the grantee.
RETRAOCTUS FEUDALIS
L. Lat. In oid Scotch law. The power which a superior possessed of paying off a debt due to an adgaudging creditor, and taking a conveyance to the adjudication. Bell...
RETRAXIT
Lat. In practice. An open and voluntary renunciation by a plaintiff of his suit in court, made when the trial is called on, by which he forever loses his action, or is barred from commencing another action for the game c...
RETRO
Lat. Back; backward; behind. Retrofeodum, a rerefief, or arriere fief. Spelman. :
RETTE
1°N. H. 218, 8 Am. Dec. 52; Bell v. Perkins, L. Fr. An accusation or charge.
RETURNING FROM TRANSPORTA
TION. Coming back to England before the term of punishment is determined.
RETURNUM IRREPLEGIABILE. A
judicial writ addressed to the sheriff for the final restitution or return of cattle to the owner when unjustly taken or distrained, and so found by verdict. It is granted after & nonsult in a second deliverance. Reg. Ju...
REUS
Lat. In the civil and canon law. The defendant in an action or suit.
Rev
0. &OC. Rep. Revenue, Civil, and Criminal Reporter, Bengal.
Rev. Cade Jowa 1880, § 3848
urder is the unlawfu) killing of a human being, in the peace of the state, by a person of sound memory and discretion, with malice aforethought, either exoe or implied. Code Ga. 1882, § 4220. The
Rev. Laws Mass
1902, p. 531, c. 52, § 12.
Rev. St. Okl
1908, § 700; Rev. Codes N. D. 1999, § 4224: Civ. Code 8S. D. 1903. § 1577.
Rev. St. Tex
1895, art. 3096a.—Home port. In maritime law, the home port of a vessel is either the port where she is registered or enrolled, or the port at or nearest to which her owner usually resides, or, if there be more than on...
Rev. St. U. 8S. § 4893 (U. S. Comp. St
1901, p. ).—Examination of title. An investigation made by or for a person who intends to purchase real estate, in the offices where the public records are kept, to ascertain the history and present condition of the ti...
Rev. St. U. S. § 1674 (U. S. Comp. St
1901, p. 1149).—Vice-constable of England. An ancient officer in the time of Edwar consul. In the consular service of the United States this term denotes a consular officer who is substituted temporarily to fill the pl...
Rev. St. U. S. sp (U. S. Comp. St
1901, p. 1941). But see Jones v. Giles, 10 Exch. 119, as to an English custom of reckoning a ton of iron “long weight” as 2,400 pounds.—Long va= eation. The recess of the English courts from August 10th to October ...
REVE MOTE
of the reve, reeve, or shire reeve. Eng. Law, 6.
REVELAND
England. The sheriff in counties, and the mayor in boroughs. Wharton.
REVELS
tipon'the account of the reve of bailiff of the manor. Spel. Feuds, cc. 24.
REVERSIO
L. Lat.. In old English law. The returning of land to the donor
REVERSIONARY
on repayment of the money advanced to him, to be replaced in his right. Bell. ment. af property, at present in the possession:
REVIVOR, BILL OF. “th ‘equity
pric’ tice. A bill filed for the purpose of reviving or calling into operation the proceedings in a stit when, from some circumstance, (as thé death of the paint) the suit’ had’ abated, oa
REVOCABLE
judgment, by lapse of time, or change by death, etc., of the parties entitled or liable to execution, the party alleging himself to be entitled to execution might sue out a writ of revivor in the form given in the act, o...
REVOCATIONE PARLIAMENTI. An
ancient writ for recalling a parliament. 4
RHANDIR
commander, with intent to remove him from his command, or against his will to take
Rhode Island ‘Hospital Trust Co
v. Armington; 21 R. L. 83, 41 Atl. 571; White v. Williams, 90 Md. 719, 45 AtL 1001; Washington, ete. Ass’n v. Stanley, 38 Or. 319, 638 Pac. 489, 58 L. R. A. 816, 84 Am. St. Rep. 793;
Rhodes, 116 Pa
129, 9 Atl. 160, 2 Am. St.
Rhodes, 87, 38; 3 Kent, Comm
8, 4; Azunf, Mar. Law, 265-296.
Rhodes.v. U. §8., Dev. Ct. Cl
47. To adopt a contract is to accept it as binding, notwithstanding some defect which entitles the party to repudiate it. Thus, when-a person affirms a voidable contract, or ratifies a contract made by his agent beyond h...
RHODIAN LAWS
comprehended four gavels, and every gavel had four rhandirs, and four houses or tenements constituted every rhandir. Tayl. Hist.
Rice Eg
(or Ch.). Rice’s South Carolina Bquity Reports.
Rich. Eq
(or Ch.) Cas. South Carolina Equity Reports. ' Rich. Law (S.C.). Richardson’s South Carolina Law Reports.
Richards v. Richards, 19 Ill. App
467; Mc- ’ Bee v. McBee, 22 Or. 329, 29 Pac. 887, 29
Richardson v. Futrell, 42 Miss
525; illiams v, Conger, 125 U. 8. 397, 8 Sup. Ct. 933, 31 L.
Richardson v. Green, 61 Fed
423, 9 C. C. A. 65: In re Straub, 49 N. J. Eq. 264, 24 Atl.
Richardson, 93 Ky
374, 20 S. W. 279: Miller v. Improvement Co., 99 Va. 747, 40 S. E. 27%, 86 Am. St. Rep. 924; Gould v. Hutchins, 10
Rickert, 66 N. H. 207, 20 Atl
559, 24 L. R. A. 740.
RIDEEB-ROLL. See RIDER
RIDGLING. A half-castrated horse. Bris-
Ridg
t. Hard. (or Ridg. & Hard.). Ridgeway’s Reports tempore Hardwicke, Chancery and King’s Bench.
Ridg. Rep
(or St.Tr.). Ridgeway’s (Individual) Reports of State Trials in Ireland.
Ridgely, 41 Mo
68, 97 Am. Dec. 248; Beverly v. Sabin, 20 Il. 357; In re Incurring of State Debts, 19 R. I. 610, 37 Atl. 14 The word ‘‘people” may have various significa-
Ried. Riedell’s Reports, vols
68, 69 New Hampshire.
RIEN. LL
Fr. Nothing. It appears in a few law French phrases. —Rien culp. In old pleading. Not guilty.
RIGHT
RIDING ARMED. In English law. The offense of riding or going armed with dan- l gerous or unusual weapons is a misdemeanor tending to disturb the public peace by terrifying the good people of the land. 4 Steph. nificatio...
Right and fraud never dwell together
10 Coke, 45a. Applied to the title of a statute:
RIGHT OF HABITATION
,~under BILu. —Marital "eR See MARI- * TAL.—Mere right. In the law of real extate, the mere right of property in-land; the right of a proprietor, but without ossession or the abstract right
RIGHT OF POSSESSION
to possession which may reside in one man, while another has the actual possession, being the right to enter and turn out such actual occupant; e.g., the right of a disseisee. An apparent right of possession is one which...
RIGHT OF REPRESENTATION AND
PERFORMANCE. By the acts 3 & 4 Wm.