The mere right of property in land; the abstract right which remains to the owner after he has lost the right of possession, and to recover which the writ of right was given. United with possession, and the right of possession, this right constitutes a complete title to lands, tenements, and hereditaments. 2 Bl. Comm. 197
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The right to dislncumber property or to free it from a claim or lien; specifically, the right (grant-ed by statute only) to free property from the incumbrance of a foreclosure or other judicial sale, or to recover the title passing thereby, by paying what is due, with interest, costs, etc. Not to tie confounded with the “equity of redemption,” which exists inde-pendently of statute but must be exercised before sale. See Mayer v. Farmers’ Bank, 44 Iowa, 216; Millett v. Mullen, 95 Me. 400, 49 Atl. 871; Case v. Spelter Co., 62 Kan. 69, 61 Pac. 406
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In Louisi-Ona. The right to occupy another man’s hohse as a dwelling, without paying rent or "other compensation? Civ. Code- La. art. 023
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The right to possession which may reside in one man/ while another has the actual possession, be-ing the right to enter and turn out such ac-tual occupant; e. g., the right of a disseisee. An apparent right of possession is one which may be defeated by a better; an actual right of possession, one which will stand the test against all opponents. 2 Bl. Comm. 196
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In Scotch law. The right which each of several cautioners (sureties) has to refuse to answer for more than his own share of the debt To entitle the cautioner to this right the other caution-ers must be solvent, and there mnst be no words in the bond to exclude it. 1 Bell. Comm. 347
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A right of entry is the right of taking or resuming possession of land b^ entering on it in a peaceable manner
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ON. The right to bring suit; a*legal right to maintain an action, growing out of a given transaction or state of ;facts and- based thereon. Hibbard v. Clark, 56 N. H. 155, 22 Am. Rep. 442; web-■ster v. County Com’rs, 63 Me. 29
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An abol-ished writ which lay for tenants in ancient demesne* and others of a similar nature, to try the right of their lands and tenements in the court of the lord exclusively. 1 Steph. Comm. 224
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This is a phrase frequently used iu place of chose in action, and having an Identical meaning
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A term of the stock-exchange, denoting the practice of inflating the price of given stocks, or en-hanclng their quoted value, by a system of pretended purchases, designed to give the air of an unusual demand for such stocks. See L. R. 13 Eq. 447
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As a noun, and taken In an abstract sense, the term means justice, ethical correctness, or consonance with the rules of law or the principles of morals. In this sig
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In old European law. A species of service and tribute rendered to their lords by agricultural tenants. Supposed by Spel-man to be derived from the name of a certain portion of land, called, in England, a “rig" or “ridge,” an elevated piece of ground, formed out of several furrows. Burrill
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L. Fr. Nothing. It appears in a few law French phrases
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In old English law-After-county; i. e., after the end of the coun-ty court A time and place appolnted by the sheriff for the receipt of the king's money after the end of his county, or county, court. Cowell
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In Engllsh law. The offense of riding or going armed with dan-gerous or unusual weapons is a misdemeanor tending to disturb the public peace by ter-rifying the good people of the land. 4 Steph. Comm. 357
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In English law. one of the six clerks in chancery who, in hls turn for one year, kept the controlment books of all grants that passed the great seal. The six clerks were superseded by the clerks of records and writs
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A half-castrated horse. Brls-co v. State, 4 Tex. App. 221, 30 Am. Rep
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Span. In Spanish law. A nobleman; a count or baron. 1 white, Re-Cop. 36
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A rider, or rider-roll, signifies a schedule or small piece of parchment annexed to some part of a roll or record. It is frequently familiarly used for any kind of a schedule or writing annexed to a document which cannot well be incorporated in the body of such document. Thus, in passing bills through a legislature, when a new clause is added after the bill has passed through committee, such new clause is termed a “rider.” Brown. See, also, Cowell; Blount; 2 Tidd, Pr. 730; Com. v. Barnett, 199 Pa
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A rogue; vagrant; whore-monger; a person given to all manner of wickedness. Cowell
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Associations or secret so-cieties formed in Ireland, having for their object the dispossession of landlords by mur-der and fire-raising, wharton
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This, the earliest code or collection of maritime laws, was formulated by the people of the island of Rhodes, who, by thelr commercial prosperity and the superiority of their navies, had ac-qulred the sovereignty of the seas. Its date is very uncertain, but is supposed (by Kent and others) to be about 900 B. C. Nothing of it is now extant except the article on jettison, which has been preserved in the Roman col-lections. (Dig. 14, 2, “Lex Rhodia-de Jactu:1) Another code, under the same name, was published In more modern times, but is generally considered, by the best authorities, to be spurious. See Schomberg, Mar. Laws Rhodes, 37, 38; 3 Kent, Comm. 3, 4; Azuni, Mar. Law, 265-296
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