Roster

A list of persons who are in their turn to perform certain duties required of them by law.

Tytler, Mil. Law, 93.

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. Enc. Brit. Its decisions had great weight, but were not law, although judged by the law.

Sacciae Trac. de Com. et Comb. § 1, quaest. 7, pars. 2, ampl. 8, num. 219, 220, 253, 254.

There was also a celebrated rota, or court at Genoa about the sixteenth century or before, whose decisions in maritime matters form the first part of Straccha de Merc.