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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

In parliamentary and legislative practice, an additional clause prepared and annexed to the bill while in course of passage; one which is or is supposed to be draughted on a small separate paper, and fastened to the main bill, so as to ride upon it, as it were, through the legislature; is called a rider. And the term is not inappropriate to similar additions, made in other kinds of draughting.