KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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REVOCABLE

RHANDIR

judgment, by lapse of time, or change by death, etc., of the parties entitled or liable to execution, the party alleging himself to be entitled to execution might sue out a writ of revivor in the form given in the act, or ap ply to the court for leave to enter a sugges tion upon the roll that it appeared that he was entitled to have and issue execution of the judgment, such leave to be granted by the court or a judge upon a rule to show cause, or a summons, to be served according to the then present practice. C. L. P. Act, 1852, § 129. voked. REVOCATION. The recall of some pow er, authority, or thing granted, or a de stroying or making void of some deed that had existence until the act of revocation made it void. It may be either general, of all acts and things done before; or special, to revoke a particular thing. 5 Coke, 90. See Wilmington City Ry. Co. v. Wilmington & B. S. Ry. Co., 8 Del. Ch. 468, 46 Atl. 12. Revocation by act of the party Is an in tentional or voluntary revocation. The prin cipal instances occur in the case of author ities and powers of attorney and wills. A revocation In law, or constructive revo cation, Is produced by a rule of law, ir respectively of the intention of the parties. Thus, a power of attorney is in general re voked by the death of the principal. Sweet. —Revocation of probate is where probate of a will, having been granted, is afterwards re called by the court of probate, on proot of a subsequent will, or other sufficient cause.— Rev ocation of -will. The recalling, annulling, or rendering inoperative an existing will, by some subsequent act of the testator, which may be by the making of a new will inconsistent with the terms of the first, or by destroying the old will, or by disposing of the property to which it related, or otherwise. See Boudinot v. Bradford, 2 Dall. 268, 1 L Ed. 375; Lathrop •. Dunlop, 4 Hun (N. Y.) 215; Carter v. Thomas, 4 Me. 342; Langdon v. Astor, 3 Duer

commander, with intent to remove him from his command, or against his will to take possession of the vessel by assuming the government and navigation of her, or by transferring their obedience from the law ful commander to some other person. Unit ed States v. Kelly, 11 Wheat 417, 6 L. Ed. 508. REWARD. A recompense or premium offered by government or an individual in return for special or extraordinary services to be performed, or for special attainments or achievements, or for some act resulting to the benefit of the public; as, a reward for useful inventions, for the discovery and apprehension of criminals, for the restora tion of lost property. See Kinn v. First Nat Bank, 118 Wis. 537, 95 N. W. 969, 99 Am. St. Rep. 1012; Campbell v. Mercer, 108 Ga. 103, 33 S. E. 871. REWME. In old records. Realm, or kingdom. REX. Lat The king. The king regard ed as the party prosecuting in a criminal ac tion; as in the form of entitling such ac tions, "Rex Y. Doe." Rex debet esse sub lege quia lex facit regem. The king ought to be under the law, because the law makes the king. 1 Bl. Comm. 239. Rex est legalis et politicus. Lane, 27. The king is both a legal and political per son. Rex est lex vivens. Jenk. Cent 17. The king is the living law. Rex est major singulis, minor uni versis. Bract 1. 1, c. 8. The king is great er than any single person, less than all. Rex hoc solum non potest f acere quod non potest injuste agere. 11 Coke, 72. The king can do everything but an injustice. Rex non debit esse sub homine, sed sub Deo et sub lege, quia lex facit re gem. Bract, fol. 5. The king ought to be under no man, but under God and the law, because the law makes a king. Broom, Max. 47. Rex non potest peccare. The king can not do wrong; the king can do no wrong. 2 Rolle, 304. An ancient and fundamental principle of the' English constitution. Jenk. Cent p. 9, case 16; 1 Bl. Comm. 246. Rex nunquam moritur. The king never dies. Broom, Max. 50; Branch, Max. (5th Ed.) 197; 1 Bl. Comm. 249. RHANDIR. A part in the division of Wales before the Conquest; every township