KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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REGULUS

Regula est, juris quidem iguorantiam cuique nocere, facti vero iguorantiam non nocere. Cod. 1, 18, 10. It is a rule, that every one is prejudiced by his igno rance of law, but not by his ignorance of fact. REGULJE GENERALES. Lat. General rules, which the courts promulgate from time to time for the regulation of their prac tice. REGULAR. According to rule; as dis tinguished from that which violates the rule or follows no rule. According to rule; as opposed to that which constitutes an exception to the rule or is not within the rule. See Zulich v. Bow man, 42 Pa. 87; Myers v. Rasback, 4 How. Prac. (N. Y.) 85. As to regular "Clergy," "Deposit," "Elec tion," "Indorsement," "Meeting," "Naviga tion," "Process," "Session," and "Term," see those titles. Regulariter non valet pactum de re mea non alienanda. Co. Litt. 223. It is a rule that a compact not to alienate my property is not binding. Those who profess and follow a certain rule of life, (regula,) be long to a religious order, and observe the three approved vows -of poverty, chastity, and obedience. Wharton. The power to regulate commerce, vested in congress, is the power to prescribe the rules by which It shall be governed, that is, the conditions upon which it shall be conducted, to determine when it shall be free, and when subject to duties or other exactions. The power also embraces within its control all the instrumentalities by which that commerce may be carried on, and the means by which it may be aided and en couraged. Gloucester Ferry Co. v. Pennsyl vania, 114 U. S. 196, 5 Sup. Ct. 826, 29 L. Ed. 158. And see Gibbons v. Ogden, 9 Wheat 227, 6 L. Ed. 23; Gilman v. Philadelphia, 3 Wall. 724, 18 L. Ed. 96; Welton v. Missouri, 91 U. S. 279, 23 L. Ed. 347; Leisy v. Hardin, 135 U. S. 100, 10 Sup. Ct 681, 34 L. Ed. 128; Kavanaugh v. Southern R. Co., 120 Ga. 62, 47 S. E. 526. The act of regulating; a rule or order prescribed for management or government; a regulating principle; a precept. See Curry v. Marvin, 2 Fla. 415; Ames v. Union Pac. Ry. Co. (C. C.) 64 Fed. 178; Hunt v. Lambertville, 45 N. J. Law, 282. REGULUS. Lat. In Saxon law. A title sometimes given to the earl or comes, in old charters. Spelman. REGULARS. REGULATE. REGULATION.

to real property. See Friedley v. Hamilton, 17 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 71, 17 Am. Dec. 638; Cas tillero v. U. S., 2 Black, 109, 17 L. Ed. 360. REGIUS PROFESSOR. A royal pro fessor or reader of lectures founded in the English universities by the king. Henry VIII. founded in each of the universities five professorships, viz., of divinity, Greek, He brew, law, and physic. Cowell. REGLAMENTO. In Spanish colonial law. A written instruction given by a com petent authority, without the observance of any peculiar form. Schm. Civil Law, Introd. 93, note. REGNAL TEARS. Statutes of the Brit ish parliament are usually cited by the name and year of the sovereign in whose reign they were enacted, and the successive years of the reign of any king or queen are denominated the "regnal years." REGNANT. One having authority as a king; one in the exercise of royal author ity. REGNI POPULI. A name given to the people of Surrey and Sussex, and on the sea coasts of Hampshire. Blount. REGNUM ECCLESIASTICUM. The ecclesiastical kingdom. 2 Hale, P. C. 324. Begnnm noa est divisibile. Co. Litt 165. The kingdom is not divisible. REGRANT. In the English law of real property, when, after a person has made a grant, the property granted comes back to him, (e. g., by escheat or forfeiture,) and he grants it again, he is said to regrant it. The phrase is chiefly used in the law of copy holds. REGRATING. In old English law. The offense of buying or getting into one's hands at a fair or market any provisions, corn, or other dead victual, with the inten tion of selling the same again in the same fair or market, or in some other within four miles thereof, at a higher price. The offend er was termed a "regrator." 3 Inst. 195; See Forsyth Mfg. Co. v. Castlen, 112 Ga. 199, 37 S. E. 485, 81 Am. St. Rep. 28. REGRESS is used principally in the phrase "free entry, egress, and regress" but it is also used to signify the re-entry of a person who has been disseised of land. Co. Litt. 3186. REGULA. Lat In practice. A rule. Regula generalis, a general rule; a stand ing rule or order of a court Frequently ab breviated, "Reg. Gen." —Regula Catoniana. la Roman law. The rule of Cato. A rule respecting the validity of dispositions by will. See Dig. 34, 7. BL.LAW DICT.(2D ED.)—64