Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

REWME

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BIDING CLERK

other code, under the same name, was pub lished in more modern times, but is general ly 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. RIAL. A piece of gold coin current for 10s., in the reign of Henry VI., at which time there were half-rials and quarter-rials or rial farthings. In the beginning of Queen Eliza beth's reign, golden rials were coined at 15s. a piece; and in the time of James I. there were rose-rials of gold at 30s. and spur-rials at 15s. Lown. Essay Coins, 38. RIBAUD. A rogue; vagrant; whore monger; a person given to all manner of wickedness. Cow ell. RIBBONMEN. Associations or eecret societies formed in Ireland, having for their object the dispossession of landlords by mur der and fire-raising. Wharton. RICHARD ROB, otherwise TROUB LESOME. The casual ejector and fictitious defendant in ejectment, whose services are no longer invoked. RICOHOME. Span. In Spanish law. A nobleman; a count or baron. 1 White, Recop. 36. RIDER. A rider, or rider-roll, signifies a schedule or small piece of parchment an nexed 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 M rider." Brown. RIDER-ROLL. In old English practice. A schedule or small piece of parchment added to some part of a roll or record. Cowell; Blount. A supplementary roll. 2 Tidd, Pr. 730. RIDGLING. A half-castrated horse. 4 Tex. App. 221. RIDING ARMED. In English law. The offense of riding or going armed with dangerous or unusual weapons is a misde meanor tending to disturb the public peace by terrifying the good people of the land. 4 Steph. Comm. 357. RIDING CLERK. In English law. One of the six clerks in chancery who, in his

sion of criminals, for the restoration of lost property. EEWME. In old records. Realm, or kingdom. REX. Lat. The king. The king regard ed as the party prosecuting in a criminal ac tion; as in the form of entitling such actions, "Rex v. Doe." Hex debet esse sub lege quia lex facit regem. The king ought to be under the law, because the law makes the king. 1 Bl. Comm. 239. Rex est legalis et politicus. Lane, 27. The king is both a legal and political person. Rex est lex vivens. Jenk. Cent. 17. The king is the living law. Rex est major singulis, minor uni versis. Bract. 1. 1, c. 8. The king is great er than any single person, less than all. Rex hoc solum non potest facere quod non potest injuste agere. 11 Coke, 72. The king can do everything but an injustice. Rex non debit esse sub homine, sed sub Deo et sub lege, quia lex faeit re gem. Bract, fol. 5. The king ought to be under no man, but under God and the law, because the law makes a king. Broom, Max. 47. Rex non potest peccare. The king cannot do wrong; the king can do no wrong. 2 Rolle, 304. An ancient and fundamental principle of the English constitution. Jenk. Cent. p. 9, case 16; 1 Bl. Comm. 246. Rex nunquam moritur. The king never dies. Broom, Max. 50; Branch, Max. (5th Ed.) 197; 1B1. Comm. 249. RHANDIR. A part in the division of Wales before the Conquest; every township comprehended lour gavels, and every gavel had four rhandirs, and four houses or tene ments constituted every rhandir. Tayl. Hist. Gav. 69. RHODIAN LAWS. This, the earliest code or collection of maritime laws, was for mulated by the people of the island of Rhodes, who, by their commercial prosperity and the superiority of their navies, had acquired the sovereignty of the seas. Its date is very un certain, 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 collections. (Dig. 14, 2, "Lex Rhodia de Jactu.") An

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