Rectory

In English law. Corporeal real property, consisting of a church, glebe lands, and tithes. 1 Chit. Prac. 163. RECTUM (Lat.) Right; also a trial or accusation. Bracton; Cowell.

In English Law. Corporeal RECTUM (Bat.). Right. Breve de redo, writ of right. RECTUS IN CURIA (Lat. right In court). The condition of one who stands at the bar, against whom no one objects any offence or prefers any charge. When a person outlawed has reversed his outlawry, so that he can have the benefit of the law, he is said to be rectus m curia. Jacob, Daw Diet. RECUPERATORES (Lat.). In Roman Law. A species of judges originally established, it is supposed, to decide controversies between Roman citizens and strangers concerning the right to the possession of property requiring speedy remedy, but gradually extended to questions which might be brought before ordinary judges. After the enlargement of their powers, the difference between them and judges, it is supposed, was simply this: — if the praetor named three judges, he called them recuperatores; if one, he called him judex. But opinions on this subject are very various. Colman, De Romano judicio recuperatorio. Cicero's oration pro Ccecin. 1, 3, was addressed to recuperatores. The result of the latest investigation of this subject is that, while ordinary cases were referred to the college of the centumviri, in cases where the praetor wished to obtain a speedy decision be had power to appoint an extraordinary college of three or five recuperatores whose instructions required them to find a verdict within a designated time. Such a course was often required in cases involving personal liberty, and the result was that the jurisdiction of the decemviri over all such actions became displaced by the court of recuperatores. The latter were also appointed in cases to which aliens were parties. Like the judices the recuperatores were private persons; Sohm, Inst. Rom. L. 150, n. 3.