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Agreeable to reason; just; proper, ordinary or usual Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

This is where an insurer procures the whole or a part of the sum which he has insured (i. e., contracted to […]

A person who, in cer-tain cases, is appointed to make a revalua tlon or second appraisement of imported goods at the custom-house […]

A faculty of the mind by which it distinguishes truth from falsehood, good from evil, and which enables the pos-sessor to deduce […]

A kingdom; a country. 1 Taunt. 270; 4 Camp. 289 Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A brief term for real proper-ty; also for anything which partakes of the nature of real property Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd […]

In foreign law. That qual-lty of laws whlch concerns property or things, (quae ad rem spectant.) Story, Confl. Laws, § 16 Source: […]

To convert any kind of prop-erty into money; but especially to receive the returns from an investment. See Bitti-ner v. Gomprecht, 28 […]

In common law. Relating to land, as distinguished from personal property. This term is applied to lands, tenements, and hereditaments Source: Black's […]

At oommon law. The Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In the middle temple, those persons were so called who were appointed to deliver lectures or “readings” at certain periods during term. […]

In English ecclesiastical law. The title of a person admitted to a rectory or other benefice will be divested unless within two […]

In Spanish law. Cause, (causa.) Las Partidas, pt. 4, tit. 4, 1. 2 Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The abbreviation of “re-cordari facias loquelam” (q. v Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In criminal law. An unlawful taking of a woman, or of an heir in ward. Rape Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

To erase. 3 How. State Tr. 156 Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old law. The pleadlngs in a suit. Rationes exereere, or ad rationes stare, to plead Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

In criminal practlce. A material word in indictments for rape, whart. Crim. Law, $ 401 Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat. on account of the soll; wlth reference to the soll. Said to be the ground of ownershlp in bees. 2 Bl. […]

L. Lat. By rea-son of tenure; as a consequence of tenure. 3 Bl. Comm. 230 Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat By rea Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat Thls Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat. on acconnt of inability. A ground of qualified property in some animals ferae natura; as in the young ones, while they […]

Lat By reason Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A wrlt that lay for tlie wife against the executors of her husband, to have the third part of his goods after […]