Raptu Haeredis

A writ for taking away an heir holding in socage, of which there were two sorts: One when the heir was married; the other when he was not. Reg. Orig. 163. RAPUIT (Lat. from rapere, to ravish).

In old English law. Ravished. A technical word in old indictments. 2 East, 30; Wharton, Am. Crim. Law, § 401. RASE (Law Lat. raseria; from Lat. rasus, shaved or scraped).

In old English law. Strike; struck measure; that in which the commodity measured was made even with the top of the measure, by scraping or striking off all that was above it. An old ordinance for bakers, brewers, etc., provided that toll should be taken "by the rase, and not by the heap or cantel." Cowell quotes the provision, but strangely overlooks the meaning it so clearly expresses, and makes rase (raseria) to be "a measure of corn, now disused." RASURA (Law Lat.; from Lat. radere, to scrape).

In old English law. A rasure. Fleta, lib. 4, c. 10, §§ 3, 4. RASURE (Law Fr. rassure, rasoure; from Lat. rasura, from radere, to scrape). A scraping off; the removal of, one or more words from an instrument, by scraping the writing off or out. One of the modes by which a deed or other instrument may be avoided, or rendered of no effect. 2 Bl. Comm. 308; Shep. Touch. 55, 68, 71; Fleta, lib. 6, c. 29, § 4. "Rasure" is properly distinguished from "obliteration," which is effected by marking out the writing with pen and ink, or blotting it out by other means; but the terms are sometimes used as synonymous. See 18 Johns. (N. Y.).499.

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