Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

BOLE D'EQUIPAGE

1050

ROME-SCOT.

ROLLS OF THE EXCHEQUER. There are several in this court relating to the revenue of the country. ROLLS OF THE TEMPLE. In En glish law. In each of the two Temples is a roll called the "calves-head roll," wherein every bencher, barrister, and student is taxed yearly; also meals to the cook and other of ficers of the houses, in consideration of a dinner of calves-head, provided in Easter term. Orig. Jur. 199. ROLLS OFFICE OF THE CHAN CERY. In English law. An office in Chan cery Lane, London, which contains rolls and records of the high court of chancery, the master whereof is the second person in the chancery, etc. The rolls court was there held, the master of the rolls sitting as judge; and that judge still sits there as a judge ot the. chancery division of the high court of justice. Wharton. ROMA PEDITJB. Pilgrims that trav eled to Borne on foot. ROMAN CATHOLIC CHARITIES ACT. The statute 23 & 24 Viet. c. 134, pro viding a method for enjoying estates given upon trust for Bom an Catholics, but inval idated by reason of certain of the trusts be ing superstitious or otherwise illegal. 3 Steph. Comm. 76. ROMAN LAW. This term, in a gen eral sense, comprehends all the laws which prevailed among the Bomans, without regard to the time of their origin, including the col lections of Justinian. In a more restricted sense, the Germans understand by this term merely the law of Justinian, as adopted by them. Mackeld. Bom. Law, § 18. In England and America, it appears to be customary to use the phrase, indifferently with "the civil law," to designate the whole sys tem of Boman jurisprudence, including the Corpus Juris Civilis; or, if any distinction is drawn, the expression "civil law" denotes the system of j urisprudence obtaining in those countries of continental Euiope which have derived their juridical notions and principles from the Justinian collection, while "Boman law " is reserved as the proper appellation of the body of law developed under the govern ment of Borne from the earliest times to the fall of the empire. ROME-SCOT, or ROME-PENNY. Peter-pence, (q. v.) Co well.

ROLE D'EQUIPAGE. In French mer cantile law. The list of a ship's crew; a muster roll. BOLL. A schedule of parchment which may be turned up with the hand in the form of a pipe or tube. Jacob. A schedule or sheet of parchment on which legal proceedings are entered. Thus, in En glish practice, the roll of parchment on which the issue is entered is termed the "issue roll." So the rolls of a manor, wherein the names, rents, and services of the tenants are copied and enrolled, are termed the "court rolls." There are also various other rolls; as those which contain the records of the court of chancery, those which contain the registers of the proceedings of old parliaments, called " rolls of parlia in e n t," etc. B ro w n. In English practice, there were formerly a great variety of these rolls, appropriated to the different proceedings; such as the war rant of attorney roll, the process roll, the recognizance roll, the imparlance roll, the plea roll, the issue roll, the judgment 10II, the scire facias roll, and the roll of proceed ings on writs of error. 2 Tidd, Pr. 729, 730. In modern practice, the term is sometimes used to denote a record of the proceedings of a court or public office. Thus, the "judg ment roll" is the file of records comprising the pleadings in a case, and all the other pro ceedings up to the judgment, arranged in order. In this sense the use of the word has survived its appropriateness; for such rec ords are no longer prepared in the form of a roll. ROLLING STOCK. The portable or movable apparatus and machinery of a rail road, particularly such as moves on the road, viz., engines, cars, tenders, coaches, and trucks. ROLLING STOCK PROTECTION ACT. The act of 35 & 36 Viet. c. 50, passed to protect the rolling stock of railways from distress or sale in certain cases.

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ROLLS OF PARLIAMENT. The manuscript registers of the proceedings of old parliaments; in these rolls are likewise a great many decisions of difficult points of law, which were frequently, in former times, referred to the determination of this supreme court by the judges of both benches, etc.

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