Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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KUSTICUM JUDICIUM

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the reversion" when either the liability to perform it or the right to take advantage of it passes to the assignee of that reversion. Brown. RUNRIG LANDS. Lands in Scotland where the ridges of a field belong alternative ly to different proprietors. Anciently this kind of possession was advantageous in giv ing a united interest to tenants to resist in roads. By the act of 1695, c. 23, a division of these lands was authorized, with the ex ception of lands belonging to corporations. Wharton. RUPEE. A silver coin of India, rated at 2s. for the current, and 2s. 3d. for the Bom bay, rupee. RUPTUM. Lat. In the civil law. Broken. A term applied to a will. Inst. 2, 17, 3. RURAL DEANERY. The circuit of an archdeacon's and rural dean's jurisdic tions. Every rural deanery is divided into parishes. See 1 Steph. Comm. 117. RURAL DEANS. In English ecclesias tical law. Very ancient officers of the church, almost grown out of use, until about the middle of the present century, about which time they were generally revived, whose deaneries are as an ecclesiastical division of the diocese or archdeaconry. They are depu ties of the bishop, planted all round his dio cese, to inspect the conduct of the parochial clergy, to inquiie into and report dilapida tions, and to examine candidates for confir mation, armed in minuter matters with an in ferior degree of judicial and coercive author ity. Wharton. RURAL SERVITUDE. In the civil law. A servitude annexed to a rural estate, (picedium rusticum.) RUSE DE GUERRE. Fr. A trick in war; a stratagem. RUSTICI. Lat. In feudal law. Na tives of a conquered country. In old English law. Inferior country tenants, churls, or chorls, who held cottages and lands by the services of plowing, and other labors of agriculture, for the lord. Cowell. RUSTICUM JUDICIUM. In maritime law. A rough or rude judgment or decision. A judgment in admiralty dividing the dam ages caused by a collision between the tw«

other without any known authority for the truth of it. Webster. It is not generally admissible in evidence. RUN, e. To have currency or legal va lidity in a prescribed territory; as, the writ runs throughout the county. To have applicability or legal effect during a prescribed period of time; as, the statute of limitations has run against the claim. To follow or accompany; to be attached to another thing in pursuing a prescribed course or direction -, as, the covenant runs with the land. RUN, n. In American law. A water course of small size. 2 Bibb, 354. RUNCARIA. In old records. Land full of brambles and briars. 1 Inst. 5a. RUNCINUS. In old English law. A load-horse; a sumpter-horse or cart-horse. RUNDIiET, or RUNLET. A measure of wine, oil, etc., containing eighteen gallons and a half. Cowell. RUNNING ACCOUNT. An open un settled account, as distinguished from a stated and liquidated account. "Running accounts mean mutual accounts and recip rocal demands between the parties, which accounts and demands remain open and un settled." l l n d . 335. RUNNING AT LARGE. This term is applied to wandering or straying animals. RUNNING DAYS. Days counted in their regular succession on the calendar, in cluding Sundays and holidays. RUNNING OP THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS. A metaphorical expres sion, by which is meant that the time men tioned in the statute of limitations is consid ered as passing. 1 Bouv. Inst. no. 861. RUNNING POLICY. A running pol icy is one which contemplates successne in surances, and which provides that the object of the policy may be from time to time de fined, especially as to the subjects of insur ance, by additional statements or indorse ments. Civil Code Cal. § 2597. RUNNING WITH THE LAND. A covenant is said to run with the land when either the liability to perform it or the right to take advantage of it passes to the assignee of that land. Brown. RUNNING WITH THE REVER SION. A covenant is said to "run with

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