Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

RATIONES

REAL CHATTELS

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the benefice, upon some Lord's day, and at the appointed times, the morning and evening service, according to the book of common prayer; and afterwards, publicly before the congregation, declare his assent to such book; and also publicly read the thirty-nine articles in the same church, in the time of common prayer, with declaration. of his assent thereto; and moreover, within three months after his admission, read upon some Lord's day in the same church, in the presence of the congregation, in the time of divine service, a declaration by him sub scribed before the ordinary, of conformity to the Liturgy, together with the certificate of the ordinary of its having been so subscribed. 2 Steph. Comm. (7th Ed.) 687; Wharton. REAFFORESTED. Where a deaffor ested forest is again made a forest. 20 Car. II. c. 3. REAL. In common law. Relating to land, as distinguished from personal prop erty. This term is applied to lands, tene ments, and hereditaments. In the civil law. Relating to a thing, (whether movable or immovable,) as distin guished fiom a person. REAL ACTION. At the common law. One brought for the specific recovery of lands, tenements, or hereditaments. Steph. PL 3. Among the civilians, real actions, other wise called "vindications," were those in which a man demanded something that was his own. They were founded on dominion, or jus in re. The real actions of the Roman law were not, like the real actions of the common law, confined to real estate, but they included personal, as well as real, property. Wharton. REAL ASSETS. Lands or real estate in the hands of an heir, chargeable with the payment of the debts of the ancestor. 2 Bl. Comm. 244, 302. REAL BURDEN. In Scotchlaw. Where a right to lands is expressly granted under the burden of a specific sum, which is declared a burden on the lands themselves, or where the right is declared null if the sum be not paid, and where the amount of the sum, and the name of the creditor in it, can be discovered from the records, the burden is said to be real. Bell. REAL CHATTELS. Such as concern, or savor of, the realty, such as leasehold es

RATIONES. In old law. The pleadings In a suit. Rationes exercere, or ad rationes stare, to plead. RATTENING is where the members of a trade union cause the tools, clothes, or oth er property of a workman to be taken away or hidden, in order to compel him to join the union or cease working. It is an offense punishable by fine or imprisonment. 38 & 39 Viet. c. 86, § 7. Sweet. RAVISHED. In criminal practice. A material word in indictments for rape. Whart. Crim. Law, § 401. RAVISHMENT. In criminal law. An nnlawful taking of a woman, or of an heir in ward. Rape. RAVISHMENT DE GARD. L. Fr. An abolished writ which lay for a guardian by knight's service or in socage, against a per son who took from him the body of his ward. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 140; 12 Car. II. c. 3. RAVISHMENT OF WARD. In En glish law. The marriage of an infant ward without the consent of the guardian. RAZE. To erase. 8 How. State Tr. 156. RAZON. In Spanish law. Cause, {causa.) Las Partidas, pt. 4, tit. 4, 1. 2. RE. Lat. In the matter of; in the case of. A term of frequent use in designating judicial proceedings, in which there is only one party. Thus, "Re Vivian" signifies "In the matter of Vivian," or in "Vivian's Case." RE. FA. LO. The abbreviation of M r«- cordaH facias loquelam," (q. v.) Re, verbis, seripto, consensu, tradi tione, junctura vestes sumere pacta solent. Compacts usually take their cloth ing from the thing itself, from words, from writing, from consent, from delivery. Plowd. 161. READERS. In the middle temple, those persons were so called who were appointed to deliver lectures or "readings" at certain periods during term. The clerks in holy ordeis who read prayers and assist in the peiformance of divine service in the chapels of the several inns of couit are also so termed. Blown. READING-IN. In English ecclesias tical law. The title of a person admitted to a rectory or other benefice will be divested unless within two months after actual pos session he publicly read in the chuich of

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