A Law Dictionary and Glossary

I. Let him answer. Respondeat ouster: let him answer further; the judgment for the plaintiff on a plea of abatement Respondeat superior: the superior or master must answer; let the

A party answering, corresponding to defendant; an appellee.

I. A loan of money on a pledge of the cargo of a vessel, to be repaid with maritime interest, if the subject arrives safa

I. fr. Answer. Respondes oustre: answer over, — words of the court in giving judgment v. Respondeat.

/. I In old English law. One who answered for another.

I. In the Roman law. Answers or opinions of lawyers, jurists or jurisconsults, — one of the principal sources of Roman jurisprudence.

Able to respond; able to pay a sum for which a person may become liabla

I. An answer. Responslo unins non omnino andiatnr: the answer of one witness shall not be heard at all, — a maxim of the Roman law.

I, In old English law. To answer. Responsnras, et ad standum recto, si sit aliqais qui versus euiii loquatnr: to answer and to stand to the charge, if there be any one who shall co

I. fr. Continually abiding; resident

A balancing of an account made for the purpose of adding interest to principal for further computation, and so for the compounding of interest

I. In the civil law. To restore.

I. Restitution. Restitutio in integrum: in maritime law, In the civil law. Restitutio in Integrnm: restitution to the original condition; applied to parties on the rescinding of a

A trust raised in equity by implication, for the benefit of the grantor of an estate, as upon the expiration of a previous trust, or before the beginning of another; in strictness,

In old English law. The taking again into the king's hands of such lands or tenements as he had erroneously delivered to the heir, or granted by letters patent

The payment by an executor or administrator, out of the personal estate in his hands, of a debt due himself in preference to debts of equal degree due others; the engagement of an

retener, l.fr. To retain, or keep

The right of retaining property owner is paid.

I. I. In old English law. To return; to redeliver. Returnabit domino averia capta: he shall return to the lord the beasts taken. Return ari facias: cause you to be returned.

I. I. In old English law. return-day, the third day of the term.

i Back; backward; behind. riere fief.

Acting backward; affecting

II In old English law. The court

Looking back; contemplating spective law: a law which looks back; or affects an act done, or a right accrued to laws which impair rights vested under; to accuse. Betatns de back; t

L In civil and old English law. To draw back; to recall or countermand. Ketrotrahitnr: is drawn back; operates retrospectively; has relation back; — tempns: the time relates back.

rctare, I L In old English law.. To accuse; to charge with a crime. Bettatus; accused.

/. fr. In old English laio. An accusation or charge.

L fy. In old English laio. To accuse; to charge; to account.

I. L In old English laio. An accusation; a charge.

To come back; to revisit; to send back; to send back a writ to the court out of which it issued, with a memorandum indorsed, of the manner in which it has been executed.

The carrying or sending back of a writ to the court from which it issued, by the officer to whom it was directed, in compliance with its mandate, — the return to the ofi Bce of the

To be returned; appointed or required to be returned.

retornuin, I. I. In old English law. Return; a return. Returnnm brevinm: return of writs. Returnura irreplegiable: return irreplevisable; a final return of goods or chattels, admit

I. In the civil and canon law. A person from whom some thing is demanded by suit; a person complained of by suit; a defendant; a person proceeded against criminally; a party to a s

o. eng. In old English law. Realm; kingdom.

I. In old English law. King; a Ising; the king. Rex debet esse sub lege, quia lex facit regem: the king ought to be' under the law, because the law makes the king. Rex noil potest

A code of maritime law, promulgated by the RhodianB, and the oldest collection of the kind now known; a later collection of the laws and usages prevailing in the Mediterranean duri

In insurance law, a peril, hazard, or danger; chance of loss.

Z. In due form. y. Omnia prcesumunti Cr,eio.

I. I. In old English law. A river.

A body of running water confined between two opposite sides or banks; a water-course of the larger kind.

In old English law. The use of a river for the purposes of fishing.

I. In the civil law. A quarrel; a strife of words.

I. I. In old English law. A scold; a scolding or quarrelsome womau.

I. In the civil law. Broken.

An open or public way, including highway, street and lane; an open passage of the sea, which, though it lies out at sea, yet is a safe place for the common riding or anchormg of sh

The foundation upon which the superstructure of a railway rests.

A known general station for ships, notoriously used as such, and distinguished by the name.

The ground allowed to a railway for track purposes.

robberia, roberia, 1. 1. In old English law. Robbery,— in its original sense, the violent taking of one's robe or garment.

I. 1. In old English law. To rob; to take away violently.

I. fr. To rob. Robbans: robbing. Kobbe: robbed.

A felonious taking of money or goods of value from the person of another, or in his presence, against his will, by violence, or by putting him in fear.

robour, I. fr. A robber.

rodknyg Uts. In old English law. Mounted retainers; vassals or tenants whose service was to ride with their lord from manor to manor.

I. In the Roman law. To ask. Rogare legem: to ask for a law; to propose it for adoption; to vote for a law proposed; to pass a law.

In English law. A sturdy beggar

I. fr. Realm; kingdom.

In modern practice, a record, whether paper, whether rolled or bound up in Anciently a sheet, or connected series which records were written, and which and so kept. In English prac

The property of a railway taken fi'om one part of the road to Rolls office of the chancery. An office in which are deposited the rolls and records of which the Master of the Rolls

In a general sense, all the the Romans, including the collections denominated the civil law; in a stricter Justinian, or all the laws of the times

In old English law. An annual every family, paid to Rome at the pence.

I. I. Succession; rotation. The name sixteenth century the decisions of which cial matters, contained in the work of high regard for wisdom and equity.

I. I. In old English law. A roll, skins of parchment; a record on a touiee: the Roll of Win ton, or Winchester, plied to Domesday Book, but properly, Alfred.

fr. In old French and Canadian the privilege of nobility.

fr. In old French and Canadian on services exigible either in money or

In English law. A disturbance of of persons with an intention to do make them rioters, and actu Mly making tion of their intention; an incipient riot. common word in wills.; a vagr

Eey, Rei, I. fr. King; a king; the king. Roy ne'st lie per ascun statute, si 11 ne soit expressement nosine: the king is not bound by any statute, if he be not expressly named to b

In English law. Relating to the king. Royal court: the king's court; the courts of Westminster. Royal fish: whale and sturgeon; so called as belonging to the king by prerogative, w

A sum paid by the user of a patent for the purposes of manufacture,— commonly so much for each article; a sum paid by a publisher to an author upon sale of the work, proportioned t

A principle or canon, aa a rule of law, a rule of construction; an order made by a court for the regulation of its practice, otherwise called a general rule; an order made between

To require by rule; to enter a rule against; to determine or decide.

In American law. Sometimes proceedings in an action out of court, or in vacation, and the times of such proceedings. In English law. Rules of the King's Bench prison: limits beyond

I. In the civil law. To break; to revoke. Bumpitur testamentum cnm, in eodem statu manente testatore, ipsius testament! jus vitiatnr: a testament is broken when, the testator remai

To operate; to have or take effect; to pass; to follow; to go with, or accompany; to continue to be valid; to remain unpaid; to bear the name of the state or the people of the stat

I. L A rough or rude judgment or decision. S. An abbreviation of scilicet, section, statute, superior, supreme. S. C: same case; supreme court. S. L.: session laws. S. P.: same poi

/. In old English law. Peace; rest.

L In old English law. Having men; rich men. The same with fcesting-men, q. v.

Lat. To suborn. Subornare est quasi subtus in aure ipsum male ornare: to suborn is to instruct one privily, as by whispering in his ear, with a bad design.

To write under; to write at the of instrument; to write the name under.

sak, Saca, sacca, sacha, I. 1. In old English and Scots law. The jurisdiction of a manor court; the privilege of a lord of V manor of holding pleas and collecting fines and ameroem

sakaburth, saccabor, sacaber, sacborgh, sax. In old English law. A person from whom a thing was stolen, and by whom the thief, liaving it on his person, was freshly pursued.

In old English law. Relief (or succor) is given. Succurritur minori; facilis est lapsus juventutis: a minor is [to be] aided; a mistake of youth is easy [youth is liable to err].

I. In the civil law. Persons who cheated in wares or money, by means of sacks or bags which they carried with them.

I. In old English law. A sack; a quantity of wool weighing thirty or twenty-eight stone; a sack or pack: a pack saddle. Saccus cum brochia: a sack [or pack of cloth used with or in

I. fr. Knowingly; willingly.

I. fr. Let them know; a word used in the commencement of deeds and charters. Sachent a toutz ceux que icy soant, et a toutz ceux que avener sount: know all those who are here, and

I. fr. To know. Saches, sachez, sachiez: know; know ye Saches touts geus: know all people.

I. In old English law. An oath; the oath of a juror, witness or party to a suit v. Eepellitur, etc. Sacramentum fldel- Itatis: the oath of fealt}'. Satramentum habet in se tres com

I hi the civil and common person guilty of sacrilege. Sacrilegns tatem et scelera superat: a sacrilegious in cupidity and wickedness [surpasses of all robbers].

A passport or privilege the legal effects of war, during the time the permission; a passport or privilege subjects of a hostile power, permitting and to take with them certain effe

In old English law. A license, the great seal, granted to strangers law within the king's dominions. wise. other party was not able to the decision of the cause to the deposited by

In old English law. A

To move, on the prosecution of a voyage; to make a movement for the purpose of proceeding to sea. The least movement, vcith clearance and readiness of equipment, is sufl Bcient to

In old English law. Holy things; gospels on which oaths were taken.

res inter alios care, t It has often been determined tween other parties do not prejudice. Ssepenumero ubi proprietas yerborum amittitur, L Oftentimes where the to [where the atten

A contract for the transfer of property from one person to another, for a valuable consideration; a transfer of the property, absolute or general, in a thing for a fixed price in m

or Salian law; the law of the Salians or Salian Franks — the oldest of the baruarian codes, having been framed, it is said, about 433. Lex scripta: written law; law deriving its fo

2. Health; greeting; prosperity; salvation. In old English law. A formal word in the commencement of deeds, probably derived from the Roman practice; a formal word invariably used

A compensation allowed to a person by whose voluntary assistance a ship or its cargo has been saved, in whole or in part, from impending danger, or recovered from actual loss, in c