Ravish
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
The verb corresponding to the noun rape, q. v. Ravishment: abduction; marriage of an infant ward without guardian's consent. Also, rape. Ravish, or ravished, is indispensably necessary in an indictment for a rape. No other word or circumlocution will take its place, — not even the noun rape.
Davis v. State, 42 Tex. 226; People v. Quin, 50 Barb. 128.
That ravish, per se, imports the sexual act, see Harper v. Delp, 3 Ind. 225.
RE.
In the affair or matter of. A term of frequent use in designating judicial proceedings, in which there is only one party or petitioner. Thus Re Vivian signifies In the matter of Vivian, or in Vivian's Case.