REASONABLE ACT. This term signifies such an act as the law requires. When an act is unnecessary, a party will not be required to perform it as a reaso...
REALITY OF LAWS. Those laws which govern property, whether real or personal, or things; the term is used in persona opposition to personality of laws....
REAL. A term which is applied to land in its most enlarged signification. Real security, therefore, means the security of mortgages or other incumbran...
RATIHABITION, contracts. Confirmation; approbation of a contract; ratification. Vin. Ab. h. t.; Assent. (q. v.)RATIONALIBUS DIVISIS, WRIT DE. The name...
RATIFICATION, contracts. An agreement to adopt an act performed by another for us.2. Ratifications are either empress or implied. The former are made ...
RAPE, division of a country. In the English law, this is a district similar to that of a hundred; but oftentimes containing in it more hundreds than o...
RANGE. This word is used in the land laws of the United States to designate the order of the location of such lands, and in patents from the United St...
RACK, punishments. An engine with which to torture a supposed criminal, in order to extort a confession of his supposed crime, and the names of his su...
QUOT, Scotch law. The twentieth part of the movables, computed without computation of debts, was so called.2. Formerly the bishop was entitled, in all...
QUOD EI DEFORCEAT, Engl. law. The name of a writ given by Stat. Westmin. 2, 13 Edw. I. c. 4, to the owners of a particular estate, as for life, in dow...