A medieval Latin word, which Lord Coke takes to mean water run-ning between two banks; in .other places it is rendered “bank.”
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Belonging or relating to the bank of a river; of or on the bank. Land lying beyond the natural watershed of a stream is not “riiwrian.” Bathgate v. Ir-vine, 126 Cal. 135, 58 Pac. 442, 77 Am. St. Rep. 158. The term is sometimes used as re
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A technical word, properly used in lndictments for riot. It of ltself implies force and violence. 2 Chit. Crim. Law, 489
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Lat. The banks of a river, or the place beyond w'hich the waters do not in thelr natural course overflow
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L. Lat. Riotously. A form-al and essential word In old indictments for riots. 2 Strange, 834
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In English criminal law. The unlawful assembling of twelve persons or more, to the disturbance of the peace, and not dispersing upon procla-mation. 4 Bl. Comm. 142; 4 Steph. Comm. 273. And see Madisonville v. Bishop, 113 Ky. 106, 67 S. W. 269, 57 L. R. A. 130
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In English practice. A custom observed by serjeants at law, on being called to that degree or order. The rings are given to the judges, and bear cer-tain mottoes, selected by the serjeant about to take the degree. Brown
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In criminal law. A tumultuous disturbance of the peace by three persons or more, assembling together of tbeir own au-, thority, wlth an lntent mutually to assist each other against any wbo shall oppose
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In criminal law. A trlck practised by a crimlnal, by which, on receiving a good piece of money in payment of an article, he pretends it is not good, and, changing it. returns to the buyer a spurious coin. See 2 Leach, 786; Bouvier
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A custom among commission merchants and brokers, (not unlike the clearing-house system) by wbich they ex-change contracts for sale against contracts for purchase, or reciprocally cancel such con-tracts, adjust differences of price between themselves, and surrender margins. See (ward v. Vosburgh (C. C.) 31 Fed. 12; williar *v. Irwin, 30 Fed. Cas. 38; Pardridge v. Cut-Jer, 68 111. App. 573; Samuels v. oilver, 130 111. 73, 22 N. E. 499
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A cllque; an exclusive combina-tion of persons for illegitimate or selfish purposes; as to control elections or political af-falrs, distribute offices, obtain contracts, con-trol the market or the stock-exchange, etc. Schomberg v. walker, 132 Cal. 224, 64 Pac. 290
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A trick variously practiced, one mode is as follows, the circumstances being taken from 2 East, P. 0. 678: The prisoner, with accomplices, being with thelr victim, pretend to find a ring wrapped in paper, appearing to be a jeweler’s receipt for a “rich, brilliant diamond ring.” They offer to leave the ring with the victim lf he will deposit some money and his watch as a security. IIe lays down his watch and money, is beckoned out of the room by one of the confederates, while the others take away his watch, etc. This is a larceny
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Lat. Strictness of law. Latch, 150. Distinguished from gratia curia, favor of the court
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In medical jurispru-dence. Cadaveric rigidity; a rigidity or stif-fenlng of the muscular tissue and joints of the body, which sets in at a greater or less lnterval after death, but usually within a few hours, and which is one of the recognlzed tests of death
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Such as a man may acquire over external objects, or things unconnected with his person. 1 BL Comm. 122
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A procedure for the recovery of real property after not more than sixty years’ adverse possession; the highest writ in the law, sometimes called, to distinguish it from others of the droitural class, the “writ of right proper.” Abolished by 3 & 4 wm. IV. c. 27. 3 Steph. Comm. 392
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Rights which concern and are annexed to the persons ot men. 1 Bl. Comm. 122
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An obsolete writ, which was brought for lands and tenements, and not for an advowson, or common, and lay only for an estate in fee-simple, and not for him who had a lesser estate; as tenant in tail, tenant in frank marriage, or tenant for life. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 1
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The term “right of redemption,” or “right to redeem,” ia familiarly used to describe the estate of the debtor when under mortgage, to be sold at -auction, in contradistinction to an absolute estate, to be set off by appraisement it would* be more consonant to the legal char-acter of this interest to call it the “debtor's estate subject to mortgage," white v. wbit-ney, 3 Metc. (Mass.) 86
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In international law. The right of one vessel, on the high seas, to stop a vessel of another nationality and examine her papers and (in some cases) her cargo. Thus, in time of war, a vessel of either belligerent has the right to search a neutral ship, encountered at sea, to ascertain whether the latter is carrying contraband goods
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The right of passage or of way is a servitude Imposed by law or by convention, and by virtue of which one has a right to pass on foot, or horseback, or
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In Scotch law. The right of a cautioner (surety) to demand reimbursement from the principal debtor when he has been compelled to pay the debt 1 BeU, Comm. 347
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By the acts 3 & 4 Wm. IV. c. 15, and 5 & 6 VicL c. 45, the author of a play, opera, or musical composition, or his assignee, has the sole right of repre-senting or causing it to*be represented in public at any place in the British dominions during the same period as the copyright in the work exists. The right is distinct from the copyright, and requires to be separately Registered. Sweet
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