KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

RIGHT

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RHODIAN LAWS

RIDING ARMED. In English law. The offense of riding or going armed with dan gerous or unusual weapons is a misdemeanor tending to disturb the public peace by ter rifying the good people of the land. 4 Steph. Comm. 357. RIDING CLERK. In English law. One of the six clerks in chancery who, in his turn for one year, kept the controlment books of all grants that passed the great seal. The six clerks were superseded by the clerks of records and writs. trithings.) The names of the parts or divisions of York shire, which, of course,, are three only, viz., East Riding, North Riding, and West Riding. —Rien culp. In' old pleading. Not guilty. —Rien dit. In old pleading. Says nothing, (nil dicit.) —Rien luy doit. In old pleading. Owes him nothing. The plea of nil debet.— Riens en arrere. Nothing in arrear. A plea in an action of debt for arrearages of account. Cowell.—Riens lour deust. Not their debt. The old form of the plea of nil debet. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 332.—Riens passa per Je fait. Nothing passed by the deed. A plea by which a party might avoid the operation of a deed, which had been enrolled or acknowledged in court; the plea of non est factum not being al lowed in such case.—Riens per discent. Nothing by descent. The plea of an heir, where he is sued for his ancestor's debt, and has no land from him by descent, or assets in his hands. Cro. Car. 151; 1 Tidd, Pr. 645; 2 Tidd, Pr. 937. RIER COUNTY. In old English law. After-county; i. e., after the end of the coun ty court. A time and place appointed by the sheriff for the receipt of the king's money after the end of his county, or county court. Cowell. RIFLETUM. A coppice or thicket Cow ell. RIGA. In old European law. A species of service and tribute rendered to their lords by agricultural tenants. Supposed by Spel man to be derived from the name of a cer tain portion of land, called, in England, a "rig" or "ridge," an elevated piece of ground, formed out of several furrows. Burrill. RIGGING THE MARKET. A term of the stock-exchange, denoting the practice of inflating the price of given stocks, or en hancing their quoted value, by a system of pretended purchases, designed to give the air of an unusual demand for such stocks. See L. R. 13 Eq. 447. RIGHT. As a noun, and taken In an a&- stract sense, the term means justice, ethical correctness, or consonance with the rules of law or the principles of morals. In this sig- RIDINGS, (corrupted from RIEN. L. Fr. Nothing. It appears in a few law French phrases.

comprehended four gavels, and every gavel had four rhandirs, and four houses or tene ments constituted every rhandir. Tayl. Hist Gav. 69. RHODIAN LAWS. This, the earliest code or collection of maritime laws, was for mulated by the people of the island of Rhodes, who, by their commercial prosperity and the superiority of their navies, had ac quired the sovereignty of the seas. Its date is very uncertain, but is supposed (by Kent and others) to be about 900 B. C. Nothing of it is now extant except the article on jettison, which has been preserved in the Roman col lections. (Dig. 14, 2, "Lex Rhodia de Jactu.") Another code, under the same name, was pub lished in more modern times, but is general ly considered, by the best authorities, to be spurious. See Schomberg, Mar. Laws Rhodes, 37, 38; 3 Kent, Comm. 3, 4; Azunl, Mar. Law, 265-296. RIAX. A piece of gold coin current for 10s., in the reign of Henry VI., at which time there were half-rials and quarter-rials or rial farthings. In the beginning of Queen Eliza beth's reign, golden rials were coined at 15s. a piece; and in the time of James I. there were rose-rials of gold at 30s. and spur-rials at 15s. Lown. Essay Coins, 38. RIBAUD. A rogue; vagrant; whore monger; a person given to all manner of wickedness. Cowell. RIBBONMEN. Associations or secret so cieties formed in Ireland, having for their object the dispossession of landlords by mur der and fire-raising. Wharton. RICHARD ROE, otherwise TROUBLE SOME. The casual ejector and fictitious de fendant in ejectment, whose services are no longer invoked. RICOHOME. Span. In Spanish law. A nobleman; a count OT baron. 1 White, Re- «op. 36. RIDER. A rider, or rider-roll, signifies a schedule or small piece of parchment an nexed to some part of a roll or record. It is frequently familiarly used for any kind of a schedule or writing annexed to a document which cannot well be incorporated in the body of such document. Thus, in passing bills through a legislature, when a new clause is added after the bill has passed through committee, such new clause is termed a "rider." Brown. See, also, Cowell; Blount; 2 Tidd, Pr. 730; Com. v. Barnett, 199 Pa. 161, 48 Atl. 976, 55 L. R. A. 882. RIDER-ROIX. See RlDEB. RXDGIiINO. A half-castrated horse. Bris- «o v. State, 4 Tex. App. 221, 30 Am. Rep. 162.