KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

RECTORIAL TITHES

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REDDERE

RECTORIAL TITHES. Great or pre dial tithes. RECTORY. An entire parish church, with all its rights, glebes, tithes, and other profits whatsoever; otherwise commonly call el a "benefice." See Gibson v. Brockway, 8 N. H. 470, 31 Am. Dec. 200; Pawlet v. Clark, 9 Oranch, 326, 3 L. Ed. 735. A rector's manse, or parsonage house. Spelman. RECTUM. Lat Right; also a trial or accusation. Bract; CJowell. —Rectum esse. To be right in court.—Rec tum rogare. To ask for right; to petition the judge to do right.—Rectum, stare ad. To stand trial or abide by the sentence of the court. RECTUS IN CURIA. Lat. Right in court The condition of one who stands at the bar, against whom no one objects any offense. When a person outlawed has revers ed his outlawry, so that he can have the benefit of the law, he is said to be "rectus in ouria." Jacob, RECUPERATIO. Lat. In old English law. Recovery; restitution by the sentence of a judge of a thing that has been wrong fully taken or detained. Co. Litt 154a. Recuperatio, i. e., ad rem, per injur!- am extortam sive detentam, per senten tiam judicis restitutio. Co. Litt. 154a. Recovery, *. e., restitution by sentence of a judge of a thing wrongfully extorted or de tained. Recuperatio est alicujus rei in cau sam, alterius adductse per judicem ac quisitio. Co. Litt. 154a. Recovery is the acquisition by sentence of a judge of any thing brought into the cause of another. RECUPERATORES. In Roman law. A species of judges first appointed to decide controversies between Roman citizens and strangers concerning rights requiring speedy remedy, but whose jurisdiction was gradual ly extended to questions which might be brought before ordinary judges. Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 204. Recurrendum est ad extraordinarium quando aon valet ordinarium. We must have recourse to what is extraordinary, when what is ordinary fails. , RECUSANTS.* In English law. Persons who willfully absent themselves from their parish church, and on whom penalties were imposed by various statutes passed during the reigns of Elizabeth and James I. Whar ton. Those persons who separate from the church established by law. Termes de la Ley. The term was practically restricted to Roman Catholics.

RECUSATIO TESTIS. Lat In the civil law. Rejection of a witness, on the ground of incompetency. Best Ev. Introd. 60, § 60. RECUSATION. In the civil law. A species of exception or plea to the jurisdic tion, to the effect that the particular judge is disqualified from hearing the cause by reason of interest or prejudice. Poth. Proc. Civile, pt 1, c. 2, § 5. The challenge of jurors. Code Prac. La. arts. 499, 500. An act, of what nature so ever it may be, by which a strange heir, by deeds or words, declares he will not be heir. Dig. 29, 2, 95. RED, RAED, or REDE. Sax. Advice; counsel. RED BOOK OF THE EXCHEQUER. An ancient record, wherein are registered the holders of lands per baroniam in the time of Henry II., the number of hides of land in certain counties before the Conquest, and the ceremonies on the coronation of Eleanor, wife of Henry III. Jacob; Cowell. RED-HANDED. With the marks of crime fresh on him. RED TAPE. In a derivative sense, or der carried to fastidious excess; system run out into trivial extremes. Webster v. Thomp son, 55 Ga. 434. REDDENDO SINGULA SINGULIS. Lat. By referring each to each; referring each phrase or expression to its appropriate object. A rule of construction. REDDENDUM. Lat In conveyancing. Rendering; yielding. The technical name of that clause in a conveyance by which the grantor creates or reserves some new thing to himself, out of what he had before grant ed; as "rendering therefor yearly the sum of ten shillings, or a pepper-corn," etc. That clause in a lease in which a rent is re served to the lessor, and which commences with the word "yielding." 2 Bl. Comm. 299. REDDENS CAUSAM SCIENTXZE. Lat Giving the reason of his knowledge. In Scotch, practice. A formal phrase used in depositions, preceding the statement of the reason of the witness' knowledge. 2 How. State Tr. 715. Reddere, nil aliud est quant acceptum restitnere; sen, reddere est quasi retro dare, et redditur dicitur • redeundo, quia retro it. Co. Litt. 142. To render is nothing more than to restore that which has been received; or, to render is as it were to give back, and it is called "render ing" from "returning," because it goes back again.