Riens

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 Fr. 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, Prac. 645; 2 Tidd, Prac. 937. RIER COUNTY (Law Lat. retroeomitatus).

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, or county court. Cowell. Pleta (lib. 2,_c. 67) calls it the day after the county (dies crastinus post comitatum)

A French word which signifies nothing. See the following titles. It sometimes signifies not, as, ricn culpable, not guilty. RIENS EN ARRIERE (L. Fr. nothing in arrear). A plea which alleges that there is nothing remaining due and unpaid of the plaintiff’s demand. It is a good plea, and raises the general issue in an action for rent. 2 Wm. Saund. 297, n. 1; 2 Ld. Raym. 1503; Gould, PI. 286; Mc Kelv. PI. 38. RIENS PASSE PER LE FAIT (L. Fr. nothing passed by the drod). A plea which avoids the effect of a deed where its execution cannot be denied, by asserting that nothing passed thereby: for example, an allegation that the acknowledgment was before a court which had not jurisdiction.