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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

According to rule. And this may be in two senses: that of according to rule, in distinction from contrai-y to or regardless of rule, in which sense it is opposed to ii Tegular; and according to rule, in distinction from exceptional, or not subject to the general rule, in which sense it is opposed to special. A regular deposit is one in which the specific thing must be returned; a strict On the distinction between " regular " and " special," see Myers v. Rasback, 4 How. Pr. 83; People v. Wilson, 72 N. C. 155. When applied to elections, the terms " regular " and " general " have been used interchangeably and synonymously.

State V. Conrades, 45 Mo. 45.

Regular session, as used in a statute regulating sessions of county commissioners, may apply to a session held by adjournment from a regular session. Bethel v. County Coram'rs of Oxford County, 60 Me. 535. for taxes," means given in according to rule; conformably to the law applicable to taxation of rights in action; not necessarily given in each successive year. Macon, &c.

R. R. Co. V. Little, 45 Go. 370, 372.