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Riotously

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

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In criminal pleading. A technical word properly used in an indictment for a riot, and ex vi termini implying violence. 2 Chit. Crim. Law, 488, 490, note (f ); 2 Sess. Cas. 13, cited Id. In the English forms, "riotously and routously" is the expression invariably used. 2 Chit. Crim. Law, ubi supra; 3 Burrows, 1262. And this has been adopted in American practice.

Wharton, Prec. Indict. (Ed. 1857) 849 et seq.

RIPA (Lat.) The banks of a river, or the place beyond which the waters do not in their natural course overflow. An extraordinary overflow does not change the banks of the river. Poth. ad Pand. lib.

50.

See "Bank;" "River."