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Rifflura

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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

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

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. 144, 145; Fleta, lib. 1, c. 41, § 3; Spelman. RIFLETUM (Law Lat.) In old records. A coppice or thicket. Cowell.