Regulation
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 phrase, regulations of a department, in acts of congress, should be understood as meaning general rules relating to the subject upon which a department acts, made by the head of a department imder some act of congress conferring power to make such regulations, and thereby giving to them the force of law. It does not include a mere order of the president or of a secretary.
Harvey V. United States, 3 Ct. of CI. 38.
Rehabere facias seisiuam
That you cause to regain seisin. The name of a writ commanding a sheriff to restore seisin of an excess, where, in the execution of a writ of habere facias seiiinam, he had delivered seisin of more than he should.