Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

REGNAL YEARS

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REGULARS

REGNAL YEARS. Statutes of the Brit ish parliament are usually cited by the name and year of the sovereign in whose reign they were enacted, and the successive years of the reign of any king or queen are denominated the "regnal years." For convenience in determining the date of statutes so cited, a "Table of British Regnal Years" is prefixed to this volume. REGNANT. One having authority as a king; one in the exercise of royal author ity. REGNI POPULI. A name given to the people of Surrey and Sussex, and on the sea coasts of Hampshire. Blount. REGNUM ECCLESIASTICUM. The ecclesiastical kingdom. 2 Hale, F. C. 324. Regnum non est divisibile. Co. Litt. 165. The kingdom is not divisible. REGRANT. In the English law of real property, when, after a person has made a grant, the property granted comes back to him, (e. g., by escheat or forfeiture,) and he grants it again, he is said to regrant it. The phrase is chiefly used in the law of copy holds. REGRATING. In old English law. The offense of buying or getting into one's hands at a fair or market any provisions, corn, or other dead victual, with the inten tion of selling the same again in the same fair or market, or in some other within four miles thereof, at a higher price. The offender was termed a "regrator." 8 Inst. 195. REGRESS is used principally in the phrase "free entry, egress, and regress" but it is also used to signify the re-entry of a per son who has been disseised of land. Co. Litt. 3186. REGULA. Lat. In practice. A rule. Regula generalis, a general rule; a stand ing rule or order of a court. Frequently ab breviated, "Reg. Gen." REGULA CATONIANA. Lat. In Roman law. The rule of Cato. A rule re specting the validity of dispositions by will. See Dig. 34, 7. Regula est, juris quidem ignorantiam ouique nocere, facti vero ignorantiam uon nocere. Cod. 1, 18,10. It is a rule, that every one is prejudiced by his igno rance of law, but not by his ignorance of

EEQULiE GENERALES. General rules, which the courts promulgate from time to time for the regulation of their prac tice. REGULAR. According to rule; as dis tinguished from that which violates the rule or follows no rule. According to rule; as opposed to that which constitutes an exception to the rule, or is not within the rule. REGULAR CLERGY. In old English law. Monks who lived secundum regulas (according to the rules) of their respective houses or societies were so denominated, in contradistinction to the parochial clergy, who performed their ministry in the world, in seculo, and who from thence were called "secular" clergy. 1 Chit. Bl. 387, note. REGULAR DEPOSIT. A strict or special deposit; a deposit which must be re turned in specie; i. e., the thing deposited must be returned. REGULAR ELECTION. A general, usual, or stated election. When applied to elections, the terms "regular" and "general" are used interchangeably and synonymously. The word "regular" is used in reference to a general election occurring throughout the state. 45 Mo. 47. REGULAR NAVIGATION. In this phrase, the word "regular" may be used in contradistinction to "occasional," rather than to "unlawful," and refer to vessels that, alone or with otheis, constitute lines, and not merely to such as are regular in the sense of being properly documented under the laws of the country to which they be long. 16 Op. Attys. Gen. 276. REGULAR PROCESS. Such as is is sued according to rule and the prescribed practice, or which emanates, lawfully and in a proper case, from a court or magistrate possessing jurisdiction. REGULAR SESSION. An ordinary, general, or stated session, (as of a legislative body,) as distinguished from a special or ex tra session. Regulariter non valet paotum de re mea non alienanda. Co. Litt. 223. It is a rule that a compact not to alienate my property is not binding. REGULARS. Those who profess and follow a certain rule of life, {regula,) be long to a religious order, and observe the

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