Black's Law Dictionary

An abbreviation of "Reg-tstrarii Liber," the register's book in chancery, containing all decrees.

Statutes of the British parliament are usually cited by the name and year of the sovereign in whose reign they were enacted, and the successive years of the reign of any king or qu

One having authority as a king; one in the exercise of royal authority.

A name given to the pcople of Surrey and Sussex, and on the sea-coasts of Hampshire. Blount.

ECCLESIASTICUM. The ecclesiastical kingdom. 2 Hale, P. C. 324.

An abbreviation of "Reg-istrum Originale," the register of original writs.

An abbreviation of "Regula Placitandi," rule of pleading.

In the English law of real property, when, after a person has made a grant, the property granted comes back to him, (e. p., by escheat or forfeiture,) and he grants it again, he is

In old English law. The offense of buying or getting into one's hands at a fair or market any provisions, corn or other dead victual, with the intention of selling the same again i

is used principally in the phrase "fuse entry, egress, and regress" but it is alse used to signify the re-entry of a person who has been disseised of land. Co.. Litt. 818b.

Lat In practice. A ruin. Regula generalis, a general rule; a standing rule or order of a court Frequently abbreviated, "Reg. Gen." —Regula Catoniana. In Roman law. The rule of Cato

In Roman law. The rule of Cato. A rule respecting the validity of dispositions by will. See Dig. 34, 7.

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.

According to rule; as distinguished from that which violates the rule or follows no rule. According to rule; as opposed to that which constitutes an exception to the rule or is not

In old English law. Monks who lived secundum regulas (according to the rules) of their respective houses or societies were so denominated, in contradistinction to the parochial cle

A general, usual, or stated election. When applied to elections, the terms "regular" and "general" are used interchangeably and synonymously. The word "regular" is used in referenc

An indorsement in blank by a third person under the name of the payee or after delivery of the note to him. Bank of Bellows Falls v. Dorset Marble Co.., 61 Vt. 106, 17 Atl. 42,

Co. Litt. 223. It is a rule that a compact not to alienate my property is not binding.

In the law of public and private corporations, a meeting (of directors, trustees, stockholders, etc.) held at the time and place appointed for it by statute, by-law, charter or oth

In this phrase, the word "regular" may be used in contradistinction to "occasional," rather than to "unlawful," and refer to vessels that, alone or with others, constitute lines, a

Such as is issued according to rule and the prescribed practice, or which emanates, lawfully and in a proper case, from a court or magistrate possessing jurisdiction.

Those who profess and follow a certain rule of life, (regula,) belong to a religious order, and observe the three approved vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. Wharton.

An ordinary, general, or stated session, (as of a legislative body,) as distinguished from a special or extra session.

A regular term of ceurt is a term begun at the time appointed by law, and continued, in the discretion of the court, to such lime as it may appoint, consistent with the law. Wightm

The power to regulate commerce, vested in congress, is the power to prescribe the rules by which it shall be governed, that is, the conditions upon which it shall be conducted, to

The act of regulating; a rule or order prescribed for management or government; a regulating principle; a precept. See Curry v. Marvin, 2 Fla. 415; Ames v. Union Pac. Ry. Co. (C. C

Lat. General rules, which the courts promulgate from time to time for the regulation of their practice.

Lat. In Saxon law. A title sometimes given to the earl or comes, in old charters. Spelman.

When a sheriff in the "habere facias sei-sinam" had delivered seisin of more than he ought, this judiclal writ lay to make him restore seisin of the excess. Reg. Jud. 13, 51, 54

In Scotch and French criminal law. To reinstate a criminal in his personal rights which he has lost by a judicial sentence. Brande.

In French and Scotch criminal law. The reinstatement of a criminal in his personal rights which he bas lost by a judicial sentence. Brande. In old English law. A papal bull or brie

In equity practice. A second hcaring of a cause, for which a party who is dissatisfied with the decree entered on the former hearing may apply by petition. 3 Bl. Comm. 453. See Bel

A robbery. Cowell.

Lat. Things intervening ; that is, things done by one of the parties to a contract, in the faith of its validity, and with the assent of the other party, and which have so affected

The primary meaning of this word is "to pay back." Philadelphia Trust, etc., Co. v. Audenreid, 83 Pa. 264. It means to make return or restoration of an equivalent for something pui

To place again in a former state, condition or office; to restore to a state or position from which the object or person had been removed. See Collins v. U. S., 15 Ct Cl. 22.

A contract of reinsurance ls one by which an insurer procures a third person to insure him against loss or liabllity by reason of such original insurance. Civ. Code Cal. § 2646. An

It concerns the sinte that the wills of the dead shouid have their effect.

Bank-notes which, after having been once paid, may again be put into circulation.

The mandate of an immoral thing is void. Dig. 17, 1, 6, 3. A contract of mandate requiring an lllegal or immoral act to be done has no legal obligation. Story, Ballm. § 158.

In pleading. To answer a plaintiff's replication in an action at law, by some matter of fact

In common-law pleading. The second pleading on the part of the defendant, being his answer of matter of fact to the plaintiff's repllcation.

Rejoining voluntarily or without being required to do so by a rule to rejoin. When a defendant was under terms to rejoin gratia, he had to deliver a rejoinder, without putting the

Relation is a fiction of law, and intended for one thing. 3 Coke, 28.

1. A relative or kinsman; a person connected by consanguinity or affinity. 2. The connection of two persons, or their situation with respect to each other, who are associated, whet

A term which, in its widest sense, includes all the kindred of the person spoken of. 2 Jarrn. Wills, 661.

Reference should always be had in such a manner that a disposition in a will may avall. 6 Coke, 76.

A kinsman; a person connected with another by blood or affinity. A person or thing having relation or connection with seme other person or thing; as, relative rights, relative powe

See Confession.

In the law of evidence. A fact having relation to another fact; a minor fact; a circumstance.

Those which relate to land; so called to distinguish them from those which are collateral to it.

Those rights of persons which are incident to them as members of society, and standing in various relations to each other. 1 Bl. Comm. 123. Those rights of persons in private life

Cro. Jac. 539. Of relatives, one being known, the other is also known.

The person upon whose complaint or at whose instance, an information or writ of quo warranto is filed, and who is quasi the plaintiff in the proceeding.

In practice. A female relator or petitioner.

In old conveyancing. To release. Relaxavi, relaxasse, have released. Litt § 445.

In old conveyancing. A release; an instrument by which a person relinquishes to another, his right in anything.

In old Scotch practice. Letters passing the signet by which a debtor was relaxed [released] from the horn; that is, from personal diligence. Bell.

1. Liberation, discharge or setting free from restraint or confinement. Thus, a man unlawfully imprisoned may obtain his release on habeas corpus. Parker v. U. S., 22 Ct Cl. 100. 2

A conveyance of the ulterior interest in lands to the particular tenant; as, if there be tenant for life or years, remainder to another in fee, and he in remainder releases all his

As if there be two joint disseisors, and the disseisee releases to one of them, he shall be sole seised, and shall keep out his former companion; which is the same in effect as if

As if my tenant for life makes a lease to A. for life, remainder to B. and his heirs, and I release to A., this extinguishes my right to the reversion, and shall inure to the advan

As, where one of two coparceners releases all her right to the other, this passes the fee-simple of the whole. 2 BI. Comm. 324, 325.

As if a man be disseised and releaseth to his disseisor ali his right, hereby the disseisor acquires a new right, which changes the quality of his estate, and renders that lawful w

The person to whom a release is made.

The relinquishment by a married woman of her expectant dower interest or estate in a particular parcel of realty belonging to her husband, as, by joining with him in a conveyance o

The maker of a release.

The conveyance by a deed of release to one party to the use of another is so termed. Thus, when a conveyance of lands was effected, by those instruments of assurance termed a lease

Lat A kind of banishment known to the civil law, which differed from "deportatio" in leaving to the person his rights of citizenship.

In old English law. Banishment for a time only. Co.. Litt. 133.

As a quality of evidence, "relevancy" means applicability to the issue joined. Relevancy is that which conduces to the proof of a pertinent hypothesis; a pertinent hypothesis being

Applying to the matter in question; affording something to the purpose. In Scotch law, good in law, legally sufficient; as, a "relevant" plea or defense. —Relevant evidence. See Ev

Such evidence as relates to, or bears directly upon, the point or fact in issue, and proves or has a tendency to prove the proposition alleged; evidence which conduces to prove a p

This term is applied to the survivor of a pair of married people, whether the survivor is the husband or the wlfe; it means the relict of the united pair, (or of the marriage union

L. Lat. Where a judgment was coniessed by cognovit actionem after pica pleaded, and the plea was withdrawn, it was called a "conlession" or "cognovit actionem relictai verification

An increase of the land by the sudden withdrawal or retrocession of the sea or a river. Hammond v. Shepard, 186 111. 235, 57 N. E. 867, 78 Am. St Rep. 274; Sapp v. Frazier, 51 La.

1. In feudal law. A sum payable by the new tenant, the duty being incident in every feudal tenure, by way of fine or composition with the lord for taking up the estate which was la

In feudal law, relieve is to depend; thus, the seigniory of a tenant in capite relieves of the crown, meaning that the tenant holds of the crown. The term is not common in English

As used in constitutional provisions forbidding the "establishment of religion," the term means a particular system of faith and worship recognised and practised by a particular ch

In English law. They are thus enumerated by Black-stone: (1) Apostasy; (2) heresy; (3) reviling the ordinances of the church ; (4) blasphemy; (5) profane swearing; (6) conjuration

When religious books or reading are spoken of, those which tend to promote the religion taught by the Christian dispensation must be considered as referred to, unless the meaning i

See Corporation.

Places set apart for pious uses; such as monasteries, churches, hospitals, and all other places where charity was extended to the relief of the poor and orphans, or for the use or

In English law. Those who falsely pretend an extraordinary commission from heaven, or terrify and abuse the people with false denunciations of judgment ; punishable with fine, impr

See Liberty.

Such as entered into some monastery or convent. In old English deeds, the vendee was often restrained from aliening to "Jews or religious men" lest the lands should fall into mortm

A body of persons associated together for the purpose of maintaining religious worship. A church and society are often united in maintaining worship, and in such cases the society

See Charitable Uses.

In practice. A forsaking, abandoning, renouncing or giving over a right

The remainder or debt which a person finds himself debtor in upon the balancing or liquidation of an account. Hence reliquary, the debtor of a reliqua; as also a person who only pa

Remains; such as the bones, etc., of saints, preserved with great veneration as sacred memorials. They have been forbidden to be used or brought into England. St. 3 Jac. I. c. 26.

Lat. In the civil law. 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 objecti

In Scotch law. A reletting or renewal of a lease; a tacit relocation is permitting a tenant to hold over without any new agreement In mining law. A new or fresh location of an aban

The remnant of an estate in land, depending upon a particular prior estate created at the same time and by the same'instrument, and limited to arise immediately on the determinatio

One who is entitled to the remainder of the estate after a particniar estate carved out of it has expired.

To remand a prisoner, after a preliminary or partial hearing before a court or magistrate, is to send him back to custody, to be kept until the hearing is resumed or the trial come

In old English law. A remainder. Spelman. A perpetuity or perpetual estate. Gian. lib. 7, c. 1.

In practice. The return made by the sheriff to a writ of execution when he has not bcen able to sell the property seized, that the same remains unsold for want of "buyers.

A remnant; that which remains. Thus the causes of which the trial is deferred from one term to another or from one sitting to another, are termed "rema-nets." 1 Anchb. Pr. 375.

1. Affording a remedy; giving the means of obtaining redress. 2. Of the nature of a remedy; intended to remedy wrongs or abuses, abate faults, or supply defecte. 3. Pertaining to o