Law Dictionary

A writ of the same nature as that last above described, issued by the guardian of the crown’s ward, and addressed to the sheriffs or stewards of the court, forbidding them to distr

A vagrant.

A vagrant.

A rogue; a vagrant. It is not used.

A rogue; vagrant; whoremonger; a person given to uil manner of wickedness. Cowell.

Associations or secret societies formed In Ireland, having for their object the dispossession of landlords by murder and fire-raising. Wharton.

King of England, 14831485.

King of England, 11891199.

King of England, 13771399.

otherwise TROUBLEsome. The casual ejector and ficitious defendant in ejectment, whose services are no longer invoked. RICOHOME (Spanish). In Spanish law. A nobleman; a count or bar

Span. In Spanish law. A nobleman; a count ot baron. 1 White, Recop. 36.

A schedule or small piece of paper or parchment added to some part of the record; as, when on the reading of a bill in the legislature a new clause is added, this is tacked to the

The male of any beast, half gelt. See 89 Iowa, 40, 48 Am. St. Rep. 353, 56 N. W. 271.

A half-castrated horse. Brls--co v. State, 4 Tex. App. 221, 30 Ain. Rep. 162

Relating to administration tice, or office of a judge. ular; done in conformity to the laws of ed.

In English law. An ascertained district; part of a county. This term has the same meaning in Yorkshire that division has in Lincolnshire. 4 Term R. 459.

The offense of riding or going armed with dangerous or unusual weapons. It is a misdemeanor; 4 Steph. Com., 11th ed. 203.

One of the Six Clerks In chancery, who, in his turn, for one year kept the controlment books of all grants that passed the Great Seal. Whart. Diet.

“riding gang member” means an individual who— (A) has not been issued a merchant mariner document under chapter 73; (B) does not perform— (i) watchstanding, automated engine room d

(Corrupted from trithings.) The names of the parts or divisions of Yorkshire, which, of course,t are three only, viz., East Riding, North Riding, and West Riding.

A French word which signifies "nothing." It has generally this meaning; as, rien en wnrere; rien passe per le fait, nothing passes by the deed; rien per descent, nothing by descent

Not guilty.

He says nothing. See Nihil dicit .

Nothing in arrears.

He owes him nothing. See Nil debet .

Nothing passed by the deed.

RIEN, or RYEN (Law Fr.) Nothing. Litt. § 53. RIENS LOUR DEUST (Law Fr. not their debt). The old form of the plea of nil debet. 2 Reeve, Hist. Eng. Law, 332. RIENS PER DESCENT (Law

Nothing in arrear. A plea in an action of debt for arrearages of account. Cowell.

Nothing in arrears.

The plea is, that the sum distrained for of the rent aforesaid... was not in arrear and unpaid... This plea avers the single proposition that the rent was not in arrear when the di

Not their debt. See Nil debet .

Not their debt. The old form of the plea of nil debet. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 332,

Nothing passed by the deed. A plea by which a party might avoid the operation of a deed, which had been enrolled or acknowledged in court; the plea of non est factum not being allo

Nothing by descent.

Nothing by descent. The plea of an heir, where he is sued for his ancestor's debt, and has no land from him by descent, or assets in his hands. Cro. Car. 151; 1 Tidd, Pr. 645 ; 2 T

In old English law. After-county; i. e., after the end of the county court A time and place appointed by the sheriff for the receipt of the king's money after the end of his county

In' old pleading. Not guilty. —Rieu .Bit. In old pleading. Says nothing, (nil dicit.)

In old pleading. Owes him nothing. The plea of nil debet.

To take away anything by force.

RUFFLURA, or RUFLURA (Law Lat.; from old Eng. rufflyn, to disorder). In old English criminal law. A slight removal of the skin; a scratch (searificatio, decortatio). Bracton, fols.

a weapon designed or redesigned, made or remade, and intended to be fired from the shoulder and designed or redesigned and made or remade to use the energy of the explosive in a fi

See Science; Shooting Mark.

A coppice or thicket Cowell.

In old European law. A species of service and tribute rendered to their lords by agricultural tenants. Supposed by Spelman to be derived from 'the name of a certain portion of land

A term of the their quoted value by a system of pretended purchasers, designed to give the air of an unusual demand for such stocks. L. R. 13 Eq. 447.

In the most abstract sense, justice, equity. The word also denoted, among other things, property, interest, power, prerogative, immunity, and privilege, and in law is most frequent

WRIT OF. A procedure for the recovery of real property after not more than sixty years' adverse possession; the highest writ in the law, sometimes called, to distinguish it from ot

In common parlance a right accrues when it comes into existence

A right against a thing. See In rem .

Knowledge of right and wrong is the exclusive test of criminal responsibility in a majority of American jurisdictions.

See Prescription .

WRIT OF. An abolished writ which lay for tenants in ancient demesne, and others of a similar nature, to try the right of their lands and tenements in the court of the lord exclusiv

By right; lawful.

the 'rightful subjects of legislation' within the meaning of § 18 of that Act was as broad as the police power of a state so as to include a law prohibiting discriminations against

See Heir.

Before the abolition of estate’s-tail, the term was used to distinguish the preferred heir, to whom the estate was limited, from the heirs in general, but since such abolition the

the person— "(A) who, with respect to a sound recording, first fixes a sound recording with authorization, or "(B) who has acquired rights from the person described in subparagraph

A chose m ao Uon (q. V.)

See "Rectus In Curia."

See In personam .

See Jura in rem .

The right of a riparian owner to pass to and from the waters of the lake within the width of his premises as they border on the lake. 202 111. 431.

the right to file a civil action in the courts against the United States." Id., at 511.

The right of aliens to acquire citizenship is purely statutory; and the petitioner's child, having been born and remained abroad, clearly does not come within the terms of the stat

the right of appeal is not essential to due process, provided that due process has already been accorded in the tribunal of first instance

The right of appeal is not essential to due process. It was, therefore, competent for the state to prescribe the procedure and conditions.

There cannot be wrung from a constitutional right of workers to assemble to discuss improvement of their own working standards, a further constitutional right to drive from remuner

See Common .

the Sixth Amendment's right of an accused to confront the witnesses against him is likewise a fundamental right and is made obligatory on the States by the Fourteenth Amendment,' t

the right of confrontation secured by the Philippine civil government act is in the nature of a privilege extended to the accused, rather than a restriction upon him, and that he i

The right of discovery. See 1 Stew. & P. (Ala.) 327.

Liberty in religious belief and observance. See 36 Mo. 263.

the right of cross-examination is included in the right of an accused in a criminal case to confront the witnesses against him'; 'a major reason underlying the constitutional confr

In Scotch law. The right which the cautioner (surety) has to insist that the creditor shall do his best to compel the performance of the contract by the principal debtor before he

In Scotch law. The right which each of several cautioners (sureties) has to refuse to answer for more than his own share of the debt. To entitle the cautioner to this right, the ot

See Dower .

One’s right or easement to bring down water through or from the land of another. See 108 N. Y. 453, 15 N. E. 739.

The easement of permitting rain-water to drip from a roof to the land of a neighbor.

The privilege of the eldest heir of taking the whole estate, if indivisible, and paying the others an equivalent in money. See 60 Md. 573.

The power to oblige an individual to sell and convey when the public necessities require it. See 6 Cranch (U. S.), 87, 3 L. Ed. 162.

A right of entry Is the right of taking or resuming possession of land by entering on it in a peaceable manner.

property to which there is under the state law a present right of exemption—one which withdraws the property from levy and sale under judicial process

Same as Fishery.

a right closely allied to freedom of speech and a right which, like free speech, lies at the foundation of a free society

In Louisiana. The right of dwelling gratuitously in a house the property of another. Civ. Code La. art. 623; 3 Toullier, Dr. Civ. c. 2, p. 325; 14 Toullier, Dr. Civ. note 279, p. 3

A quality annexed to land whereby an estate is exempt from execution sale for debt. See 77 N. C. 379.

The Regulation is merely declaratory of a surety's customary right of indemnity for amounts paid pursuant to an obligation of the guarantor assumed with the consent of the principa

The word lien is of the same origin as the word liable, and the right of lien expresses the liability of certain property for a certain legal duty, or a right to resort to it in or

Although the United States retained the fee, and the tribe's right of occupancy was incapable of alienation or of being held otherwise than in common, that right is as sacred and a

The right of peaceable assembly is a right cognate to those of free speech and free press and is equally fundamental. As this Court said in United States v. Cruikshank: 'The very i

The right of petition extends to all departments of the Government. The right of access to the courts is indeed but one aspect of the right of petition.

"right of possession" means possession obtained with the voluntary consent of an individual or group that had authority of alienation. The original acquisition of a Nativ

this is only a privilege conferred on the settler to purchase land in preference to others. . . . His settlement protects him from intrusion or purchase by others, but confers no r

Water is diverted to propel machinery in flour mills and saw mills, and to irrigate land for cultivation, as well as to enable miners to work their mining claims; and in all such c

The right of priority forms no part of the contract itself. It (the right of priority) is intrinsic, and rather a personal privilege dependent on the law of the place where the pro

It marks the right of privacy as one of the unique values of our civilization and, with few exceptions, stays the hands of the police unless they have a search warrant issued by a

The abstract right {merum jus) which remains after the actual possession has been so long gone that the right of possession is also lost, and the law will only allow recovery of th

The statutory right to redeem property from judicial sale. See 62 Kan. 69, 61 Pac. 406.

It is a settled rule at the common law, that where a right of re-entry is claimed on the ground of forfeiture for the non-payment of rent, there must be proof of a demand of the pr

It is clear, by the common law, that a right of re-entry always supposes an estate in the party, and cannot be reserved to a mere stranger... 'therefore, I have always thought, tha