Rogation Week

In English ecclesl-astical law. The second week before whit-sunday, thus called from three fasts observed therein, the Monday, Tuesday, and wednesday, called “Rogation days,” because of the extraordinary prayers then made for the fruits of the earth, or as a preparation for the devotlon of Holy Thursday, wharton

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Rogator

Lat. In Roman law. The proposer of a law or rogation

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Rogare

Lat. In Roman law. To ask »r solicit. Rogare legem, to ask for the adop-tion of a law, i. e., to propose it for enactment, to bring in a bill. In a derivative sense, to vote for a law so proposed; to adopt or enact it

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Rogatio

Lat in Roman law. An asking for a law; a proposal of a law for adoption or passage. Derivatively, a law passed by such a form

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Roberdsmen

In old English law. Persons who, in the reign of Richard I., committed great outrages on the borders of England and Scotland. Said to have been the followers of Robert Hood, or Robin Hood. 4 Bl. Comm. 246

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Rod Knights

In feudal law. Certain servitors who held tbeir land by serving tbeir lords on horseback. CowelL

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Robbery

Robbery is the felonious taking of personal property in th§ possession of another, from his person or immediate presence, and against hls will, accomplished by means of fortje or fear. Pen. Code Cal. S 211; 1 Hawk. P. C. 25; 4 Bl. Comm. 243; United States ▼. Jones, 3 wash, a a 209, Fed. Cas. No. 15,494; Seymour v. State, 15 Ind. 288;, McDaniel v. State, 16 Miss. 401, 47 Am. Dec. 93

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Robe

Fr. A word anciently used by sailors for the cargo of a ship. The Italian “roba" had the same meaning

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Robbator

Ih old English law. A robber. Robbatorea et burglatores, robbers and burglars. Bract fiol. 115b

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Robber

one who commits a robbery. The term is not in law synonymous with “thief," but applies only to one who steals with force or open violence. See De Rothschild ▼. Royai Mail Steam Packet Co., 7 Exch. 742; The Manitoba (D. C.) 104 Fed,. 15L

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Road

A highway; an open way or pub-lic passage; a line of travel or communlca-tion extending from one town or place to another; a strip of land appropriated and used for -purposes of travel and communication between different places. See Stokes t. Scott

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Roadstead

In maritime law. A known general station for ships, notoriously used as such, and distinguished by the name; and not any spot where an anchor, will find bottom and fix itself. 1 C. Rob. Adm. 232

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Rixa

LaL In the civil law. A quarrel: a strife of words. Calvin

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Rixatrix

In old English law. A scold; a scolding or quarrelsome woman. 4 Bl. Comm. 168

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Riveare

To have the liberty of a river for fishing and fowling. Cowell

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River

A natural stream of water, of greater volume than a creek or rivulet, flowing in a more or less permanent bed or chan-nel, between defined banks or walls, with a current which may either be continuous in one direction or affected by the ebb and flow of the tide. See Howard v. Ingersoll, 13 How. 391,14 L. Ed. 189; Alabama v. Georgia, 23 How. 513, 16 L. Ed. 556; The Garden City (D. C.) 26 Fed. 772; Berlin Mills Co. v. wentworth’s Location, 60 N. H. 158; Dud-den v. Guardians of Clutton Union, 1 Hurl. & N. 627; Chamberlain v. Hemingway, 63 Conn. 1, 27 Ati. 239, 22 L. R. A. 45, 38 Am. St. Rep. 330

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Rite

Lat. Duly and formally; legal-ly; properly; technically

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Rivage

In Frenob law. The shore, as of the sea

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Risk

In Insurance law; the danger or hazard of a loss of the property Insured; the casualty contemplated in a eontract of insur-ance; the degree of hazard; and, colloquially, the specific house, factory, ship, etc., cor-ered by the policy

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Ristourne

Fr. In insurance law; the dissolution of a policy or contract of insurance for any cause. Emerig. Tralte des Assur. c. 16

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Riscus

L. Lat in the civU law. A chest for the keeping of clothing. Calvin

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Rising Of Court

Properly the final adjournment of the court for the term, though the term is also sometimes used to express the cessation of judicial business for the day or for a recess; it is the opposite of “sitting’' or “session.” See State v. weaver, 11 Neb. 163, 8 N. W. 385.

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Ripuarian Law

An nncient code of laws by wbich the Ripuaril, a tribe of Franks who occupied the country upon the Rhine, the Meuse, and the Scheldt, were governed. They were first reduced to writing by The-odorlc, king of Austrasia, and completed by Dagobert Spelman

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Ripuarian Proprietors

Own-ers of lands bounded by a river or water-course

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Ripe

A suit is said to be “ripe for Jndg-ment” when it is so far advanced, by verdict, default, confession, the determination of all pending motions, or other disposition of pre-Hmlnary or disputed matters, that nothing •remnina for the court but to render the op-propriate Judgment. See Hosmer v. Hoitt, 161 Mass. 173, 36 N. E. 835

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