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Regulate

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

To direct, govern, or restrict. A governmental power to regulate does not include a power to prohibit.

39 N. J. Law, 44; 70 Mich. 396.

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

Spelman.

REHABERE FACIAS SEISINAM (Lat. do you cause to regain seisin). When a sheriff in the habere facias seisinam had delivered seisin of more than he ought, this judicial writ lay to make him restore seisin of the excess.

Reg. Jud. 13. 51. 54.