QUOD OLERICI NON ELIGANTUR
IN OFFICIO BALLIVI, etc. A writ which lay for a clerk, who, by reason of some land he had, was made, or was about to be made,
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QUOD PERSONA NEC PREBEN
' DARI, etc. A writ which lay for spiritual persons, distrained in their spiritual possessions, for payment of a fifteenth with the rest of the parish. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 175. Obsolete.
Quoted under this name, by Fleta, lib
1. c. 38, $15; Id. lib. 3, c. 10, § 3—Lex judicialis. An ordeal.—Lex manifesta. Manifest or open law: the trial by duel or ordeal. The same with lea apparens, (g. v.) In King John’s charter (chapter 38) and the articles of that charter (chapte...
QUOUSQUE
Lat. How long; how far; until. In old conveyances it is used as a word of limitation. 10 Coke, 41.
QUZ EST EADEM
Lat. Which is the same. Words used for alleging that the trespass or other fact mentioned in the plea is the same as that laid in the declaration. where, from the circumstances, there is an apparent difference between the two. 1 Chit. Pl. *582.
QUZ PLURA
Lat. In old English practice. A writ which lay where an inqutsition had been made by an eschentor in any county of such lands or tenements as any man died seised of, and all that was in his possession was imagined not to be found by the office; the w...
R. (N. Y.) 475
POST NATUS. Born afterwards. A term applied by old writers to a second or younger son. It is used in private international law to designate a person who was born efter some historic event, (such as the American Revolution or the act of union between ...
R. A. 618, 42 Am. St. Rep
55.—Going off - See “GOING BEFORE THE WIND,” gupra.—Going price. The prevalent price: the current market value of the article in question at the time and place of sale. Kelsea v. Haines, 1 oN. H. —Going throurh the bar, The act of the chief...
RAGMAN’S ROLL, or RAGIMUND’S
ROLL. A roll, called from one Ragimund or Ragimont, a legate in Scotland, who, summoning all the beneficed clergymen in that kingdom, caused them on oath to give in the true value of their benefices, according to which they were afterwards taxed by t...
Railroad Co
v. Collins, 56 Ill. 217; Hawkins v. Hoffman, 6 Hill (N. Y.) 590, 41 Am. v. Howard, 79 Ga. 44.3 8. BE 426; Vaden v. Van Blarcom, 100 Mo. App. 185, 74 S&S. W. 124. v. Waterbury Button (o., 94 v. Car Co., 1389 U. S. 79, 11 Sup. v. Fuller, 17 Wall. 5...
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. Tallada, 125.
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.
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 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 and taking such animals on th...
RATIONE SOLI
Lat. On account of the soil; with reference to the soil. Said to be the ground of ownership in bees. 2 BI.
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, mining, power, or domestic use, eit...
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 at the present day; it may be c...
RECOGNITIONE ADNULLANDA PER
VIM ET DURITIEM FACTA. A writ to the justices of the common bench for sending a record touching a recognizance, which the recognizor suggests was acknowledged by force and duress; that if it so appear the recognizance may be annulled. Reg. Orig. 183....
RECOMMENDATION
given bis deposition, reads the same over and scrutinizes it, with a view to affirming his satisfaction with it as it stands, or to making such changes in it as his better recollectlon may suggest té him as necessary to the truth. This ig necessary ...
RECOMPENSE OR RECOVERY IN
VALUE. That part of the judgment in a “common recovery” by which the tenant is declared entitled to recover lands of equal value with those which were warranted to him and lost by the default of the vouchee.
RECTO DE DOTE UNDE NIHIL
HABET. A writ of right of dower whereof l the widow had nothing, which lay where her deceased husband, having divers lands or tenements, had assured no dower to his wife,
RECTO DE OUSTODIA TERRA: ET
HZEREDIS. A writ of right of ward of the land and heir. Abolished.
RECTO DE RATIONABILI PARTE
A writ of right, of the reasonable part, which lay between privies in blood; as brothers in gavelkind, sisters, and other coparceners, for land in fee-simple. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 9.
RECTO QUANDO (or QUIA) DOMI
NUS REMISIT OURIAM. A writ of right, when or because the lord had remitted his court, which lay where lands or tenements in the seignory of any lord were in demand by a.writ of right. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 16.
RED BOOK OF THE EXCHEQUER
An ancient record, wherein are registered the holders of lands per baroniam in the time of Henry II., the number of hides of land fn certain counties before the Conquest, and the ceremonies on the coronation of Eleanor, wife of Henry III.’ Jacob; C...
REDDENDUM
Lat. Im conveyancing. Rendering; yielding. The technical name of that clause in a conveyance by which the grantor creates or reserves some new thing to himself, out of what he had before granted; as “rendering therefor yearly the sum of ten shillin...
REDHIBITORY DEFECT
REDEMPTION. A repurchase; a buy: ing back. The act of a vendor of property in buying it back again from the purchaser at the same or an enhanced price.
REDITUS
Lat. A revenue or return; income or profit; specifically, rent. —Reditus albi. White rent; blanche farm; rent payable in silver or other money.—Reditus us. A set or standing rent.—Reditus capitales. Chief rent paid by freeholders to go quit of ...
Reditus quieti. Quitrents, (g
v.}—Reditus siccus. Rent seck, (g. wv.)
REDUCTION INTO POSSESSION
The act of exercising the right conferred by a chose in action, so as to convert it into a chose in possession; thus, a debt ts reduced into possession by payment. Sweet.