Law Dictionary

the Secretary of War granted various permits, which are relied on by the appellant although in their nature they all were revocable licenses

Withdrawal; recall; annulment.

An ancient writ for recalling a parliament. 4 Inst. 44. REVOCATUR (Lat. recalled). A term used to denote that a judgment is annulled for an error in fact. The judgment is then said

An agency is dissolved or determined in several ways: I. By the act of the principal, either (a) Express, as (1) By direct and formal writing, publicly advertised; (2) By informal

The vacation or recall of an order admitting a will to probate.

The recalling, annulling, or rendering inoperative an existing will, by some subsequent act of the testator, which may be by the making of a new will inconsistent with the terms of

Where a second Will is made, containing an express clause of revocation, the preceding Will, though not formally cancelled, is revoked.

It is recalled or set aside.

call back," a court would need statutory authorization to reimpose this "called back" term of supervised release.

The endeavor of the crew of a vessel to overthrow the lawful authority of her commander, with intent to remove him from his command, or against his will to take possession of the v

insurrection" and "rebellion" (all of which are attempts to change a subsisting government by force), then they create that 'domestic violence' which is contemplated by the Constit

reward implies something given in return for good or evil done or received

The term “rewards program” means the program established in subsection (a)(1).

In old records. Realm, or kingdom.

To disclaim, disavow; to give up, forego, resign, relinquish. Renunciation. Disclaimer, rejection, relinquishment; as, of a right or privilege. A person -named for executor in a wi

King.

11 Coke, 72. The king can do everything but an injustice.

The king ought to be under the law, because the law makes the king. 1 BL Comm. 239.

The king ought to be under the law because the law makes the king.

The king is the head and the safety of the state, and from a worthy head prosperity comes to all.

The king is both a legal and political person. Lane, 27.

The king la the living law. Jenk. Cent. Cas. 17. REX EST MAJOR SINGULIS; MINOR unlversis. The king is greater than any single person; less than all. Bracton, lib. 1, c. 8. REX HOC

The king is greater than any single person, less than all of them.

The king this thing alone cannot do, that is, he cannot do an injustice.

The king should not be subordinate to man but to God and the law.

Bract, fol. 5. The king ought to be under no man, but under God and the law, bscause the law makes a king. Broom, Max. 47.

The king cannot deceive nor be deceived.

The king can do no wrong. 2 Rolle, 304; Jenk. Cent. Cas. 9, 308; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 51; 1 Bl. Comm. 246.

The king never dies. Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 49; Branch, Max. (6th Ed.) 197; 1 Bl. Comm. 249.

the term "RFE/RL, Incorporated" means the corporation having the corporate title described in section 6207 of this title 1

The term “RFG State” means a State in which is located one or more covered areas (as defined in section 7545(k)(10)(D) of this title ).

The terms "RFMO" and "regional fisheries management organization" mean a regional fisheries management organization (as that term is defined by the United Natio

Regulae generales, which see.

In gavelkind law. A gavel was divided into four rhandirs, each consisting of four tenements.

the word was no more than rhetorical hyperbole, a vigorous epithet used by those who considered Bresler's negotiating position extremely unreasonable

One of the original thirteen states of the United States of America; its full style being, “The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.’* Its territory lies between Massa

An ancient compilation of maritime law.

A code of maritime laws adopted by the people of Rhodes, who had by their commerce and naval victories obtained the sovereignty of the sea, about nine hundred years before the Chri

A code of maritime laws adopted by the people of Rhodes, who had by their commerce and naval victories obtained the sovereignty of the sea, about nine hundred years before the Chri

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

AND DEATHS. In most states acts have been passed requiring physicians, clergymen, etc., to register all such events with the proper county officer. The validity of these laws has b

A piece of gold coin current for ten shillings in the reign of Henry VI.

A Spanish coin computed in custom-house calculations at ten cents. 1 Story, U. S. Laws, 626.

A Spanish coin computed in custom-house calculations at five cents. 1 Story, U. S. Laws, 626. RIBALDUS (Law Lat.; from Fr. rihauld, ribaud). In old European law. A worthless person

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