Rider

Defined in 7 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Anderson (1889), Abbott (1879), Bouvier (1839)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

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 bill on a separate piece of paper, and is called a "rider." RIDER (or RIDDER) ROLL. In old Engrecord. Cowell; Blount. A supplementary roll. 2 Tidd, Prac. 730.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

A new and unrelated provision attached to a legislative appropriation bill. See 199 Pa. 161. 55 L. R. A. 882, 48 Atl. 976.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

A schedule or small piece of paper or parchment added to some part of a record or policy of insurance; as, when on a separate piece of paper, and is called a rider. A new and unrelated provision added to an appropriation bill for the purpose of coercing the executive to approve of obnoxious legislation, or bring the wheels of government to a stop for want of funds. It is used in a general way of an unrelated provision added to any bill. Even though it may have become a modern practice in Congress to adopt independent legislation by attaching riders to appropriation bills, the courts are not relieved from the duty of interpreting the statute; Pennington v. U. S., 231 U. S. 031, 34 Sup. Ct. 269, 58 L. Ed. 410.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

A rider or rider-roll, signifies a schedule or small piece of parchment annexed to some part of a roll or record. It is frequently familiarly used for any kind of a schedule or writing annexed to a document which cannot well be incorporated in the body of such document. Thus, in passing bllls through a legislature, when a new clause is added after the bill has passed through committee, such new clause is termed a "rider." Brown. Sce, also, Cowell; Blount; 2 Tidd, Pr. 730; Com. v. Barnett, 199 Pa. 161, 48 Atl. 976, 55 L. R. A. 882.

A Dictionary of Law

William C. Anderson · 1889

A clause added to a bill pending before a legislative body after it has been reported from committee. Amendments are sometimes made to b Uls in Parliament after third reading. It a new clause be added it is done by tacking on a separate piece of parchment called a "rider."*

Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879

In parliamentary and legislative practice, an additional clause prepared and annexed to the bill while in course of passage; one which is or is supposed to be draughted on a small separate paper, and fastened to the main bill, so as to ride upon it, as it were, through the legislature; is called a rider. And the term is not inappropriate to similar additions, made in other kinds of draughting.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States

John Bouvier · 1839

practice, legislation, is 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 bill on a separate piece of paper, and is called a rider.