Root
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
The part of a tree or plant under ground from which it draws most of its nourishment from the earth. See Tree. In a figurative sense, root is used to signify the person from whom one or more others are descended. See Consanguinity; Line. ROTA (Lat).
A court
A celebrated court of appeals at Rome, of which one judge must be a German, one a Frenchman, two Spaniards, and eight Italians. Encyc. Brit Its decisions had great weight, hut were not law, although judged by the law. There was also a celebrated rota at Genoa about the sixteenth century, or before, whose decisions in maritime matters form the first part of titraccha de Merc.
See Ingersolfs Boecus.
R0TULI PIP/E. See Pipe Rolls. R0TULI SCACCARII.
Exchequer rolls.
See Scaccarium; Roll. R0TURIER.
In Old French Law. One not noble. Diet, de VAcad. Franc. A free commoner; one who did not hold his land by homage and fealty, yet owed certain services. Howard, Diet, de N orinande.