REGIUS PROFESSOR
to real property. See Friedley y. Benue oo. Serg. & R. (Pa.) 71, 17 Am tilleso vy. U. 8.2 Black, 109, 17 L. ag 860.
Category: Property
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REGULUS
Regula est, juris quidem ignorantiam euigue nocere, facti. vero ignorantiam mon mocere. Cod. 1, 18, 10. It is a rule, that every .one is prejudiced by his ignorance of law, but not by his ignorance of fact. Lat. In Saxon law. A title sometimes given...
RELATION 1011
rento are entitled “on the relation ‘of’ ‘a private person, who is called the “relator.” But in this connection the word seems also to involve the idea of the suggestion, instigation, or instance of the relator.
RELIEF
1. In feudal law. A sum payable by the new tenant, the duty being incident to every feudal tenure, by way of tine or composition with the lord for taking up the estate which was lapsed or fallen in by the death of the last tenant. At one time the amo...
RELOCATIO
Lat. In the civillaw. A renewal of a lease on its determination. It may be either express or tacit; the latter is when the tenant holds over with the knowledge and without objection of the landlord. Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 412.
REM
—Jus in re propria. The right of enjoyment which is incident to full ownership or property, and is often used to denote the full ownership or property itself. It is distinguished from sue in re aliend, which is a mere easement or right in or over t...
REMANENT PRO DEFEOTU EMP
TORUM. In practice. The return made by the sheriff to a writ of execution when he has not been able to sell the property seized, that the same remains unsold for want of buyers.
RENT
RENT. At common law. A certain profit issuing yearly out of lands and tenements corporeal; a species of incorporeal hereditament. 2 Bl. Comm. 41. A compensation or return yielded periodically, to a certain amount, out of the profits of some corporeal...
RENTAL
(Said to be corrupted from “rent-roll.”) In English law. A _ roll on which the rents of a manor are registered or set down, and by which the lord's bailiff collects the same. It contains the lands and tenements let to each tenant, the names of th...
RENTIS
LOCOCESSION. The act of giving place.
REPLEVIABLE, or REPLEVISABLE
Property is said to be repleviable or re plevisable when proceedings in replevin may
REPLEVIN
de resorted to for the purpose of trying the mght to such property.
REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT. A
government in the republican form; a government of the people; a government by representatives chosen by the people. See In re Duncan, 139 U. S. 449, 11 Sup. Ct. 573, 35 L. Ed. 219; Eckerson v. Des Moines, 137 Iowa, 452, 115 N. W. 177; Minor v. Happe...
RERUM ORDO CONFUNDITUR
. REPUTED. Accepted by general, - vulgar, or public opinion. Thus, land may be reputed part of a manor, though not really so, and a certain district may be reputed a parish or a manor, or be a parish or a manor in reputation, although it is in realit...
RES
Lat. In the civil law. A thing; an object. As a term of the law, this word has a very wide and extensive signification, including not only things which are objects of property, but also such as are not capable of individual ownership. See Inst. 2, 1,...
RES 1024
Res mobiles. In the civil law. Movable things; things which may be transported from one place to another, without injury to their substance and form. Things corresponding with the chattels personal of the common law. 2
Res nullius
he property of nobody. A thing which has no owner, either because a former owner has finally abandoned it, or because it has never been appropriated by any person, or because (in the Roman Jaw) it is not susceptible of private ownership—Res periit ...
RESTRICTION
tions in regard td leases have been s0 called in England: 2 Bl. Comm. 819, 320.
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.
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 title to such land, and its stat...
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 place of a consul who is absent ...
REVELAND
England. The sheriff in counties, and the mayor in boroughs. Wharton.
REVERSIONARY
on repayment of the money advanced to him, to be replaced in his right. Bell. ment. af property, at present in the possession:
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;
RHODIAN LAWS
comprehended four gavels, and every gavel had four rhandirs, and four houses or tenements constituted every rhandir. Tayl. Hist.
Ridg. Rep
(or St.Tr.). Ridgeway’s (Individual) Reports of State Trials in Ireland.
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 may be defeated by a better; ...
Riley, 101 Ga
372, 29 S. E. 44. 40 L. R. A. 244. More particularly, a «critten transfer .- of property, as distinguished from a transfer by mere delivery.