Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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Bhine, the Meuse, and the Scheldt, were gov erned. They were first reduced to writing by Theodoric, king of Austrasia, and com pleted by Dagobert. Spelman. BIPUABIAN PROPRIETORS. Own ers of lands bounded by a river or water course. RISCTTS. L. Lat. In the civil law. A chest for the keeping of clothing. Calvin. RISK. In insurance law; the danger ot hazard of a loss of the property insured; the casualty contemplated in a contract of insur ance; the degree of hazard; and, colloquially, the specific house, factory, ship, etc., cov ered by the policy. RISKS OP NAVIGATION. It Is held that this term is not the equivalent of "perils of navigation," but is of more comprehen sive import than the latter. 48 N". Y. 419. RISTOURNE. Fr. In insurance law; the dissolution of a policy or contract of in surance tor any cause. Emerig. Trait<§ des Assur. c. 16. RITE. Lat. Duly and formally; legal ly; properly; technically. RIVAGE. In Frenoh law. The shore, as of the sea. In English law. A toll anciently paid to the crown for the passage oi boats or ves sels on certain rivers. Cowell. RIVEARE. To have the liberty of a river for fishing and fowling. Cowell. RIVER. A natural stream of water, of greater volume than a creek or rivulet, flow ing in a more or less permanent bed or chan nel, between defined banks or walls, with a current which may either be continuous in one direction or affected by the ebb and flow of the tide. Rivers are public or private; and of public rivers some are navigable and others not. The common-law distinction is that naviga ble rivers are those only wherein the tide ebbs and flows. But, in familiar usage, any river is navigable which affords passage to ships and vessels, irrespective of its being af fected by the tide. RIXA. Lat. In the civil law. A quar rel; a strife of words. Calvin. RIXATRIX. In old English law. A scold; a scolding or quarrelsome woman. 4 Bl. Comm. 168.

BIOTOSB. L. Lat. Riotously. A form al and essential word in old indictments for riots. 2 Strange, 834. RIOTOUS ASSEMBLY. In English criminal law. The unlawful assembling of twelve persons or more, to the disturbance of the peace, and not dispersing upon procla mation. 4 Bl. Comm. 142; 4 Steph. Comm. 273. BIOTOITSLT. A technical word, prop erly used in indictments for riot. It of itself implies force and violence. 2 Chit. Crim. Law, 489. BIPA. Lat. The banks of a river, or the place beyond which the waters do not in their natural course overflow. BIPABIA. A medieval Latin word, which Lord Coke takes to mean water run ning between two banks; in other places it Is rendered "bank." RIPARIAN. Belonging or relating to the bank of a river; of or on the bank. RIPARIAN NATIONS. In interna tional law. Those who possess opposite banks or different parts of banks of one and the same river. BIPABIAN OWNER. A riparian pro prietor; one who owns land on the bank of a river. BIPABIAN PBOPBIETOB. An owner of land, bounded'generally upon a stream of water, and as such having a qualified prop erty in the soil to the thread of the stream with the privileges annexed thereto by law. 22 Pick. 355. RIPABIAN BIGHTS. The rights of the owners of lands on the banks of water courses, relating to the water, its use, own ership of soil under the stream, accretions, etc. Riparum usus publicus est jure gen tium, siout ipsius fluminis. The use of river-banks is by the law of nations public, like that of the stream itself. Dig. 1, 8, 5, pr.; Fleta, 1. 3, c. 1, § 5. BIPTOWELL, or REAPTOWEL. A gratuity or reward given to tenants after they had reaped their lord's corn, or done other customary duties. Cowell. BIPUARIAN LAW. An ancient code of laws by which the Ripuani, a tribe of Franks who occupied the country upon the

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