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great variety of these rolls, appropriated to the different proceedings; such as the war rant of attorney roll, the process roll, the recognizance roll, the imparlance roll, the plea roll, the issue roll, the judgment roll, the scire facias roll, and the roll of proceed ings on writs of error. 2 Tidd, Pr. 729, 730. In modern practice, the term is sometimes) used to denote a record of the proceedings of a court or public office. Thus, the "judg ment roll" is the file of records comprising the pleadings in a case, and all the other pro ceedings up to the judgment, arranged in order. In this sense the use of the word has survived its appropriateness; for such rec ords are no longer prepared In the form of a roll. —Assessment roll. In taxation, the list or roll of taxable persons and property, completed, verified, and deposited by the assessors. Bank v. Genoa, 28 Misc. Rep. 71, 59 N. Y. Supp. 829; Adams v. Brennan, 72 Miss. 894, 18 South. 482.— Judgment roll. See supra.— Master o>f the rolls. See MASTER.— Rolls of parliament. The manuscript registers of the proceedings of old parliaments j in these rolls are likewise a great many decisions of dif ficult points of law, which were frequently, in former times, referred to the determination of this supreme court by the judges of both bench es, etc.— Rolls of the exchequer. There are several in this court relating to the revenue of the country.— Rolls of the temple. In Eng lish law. In each of the two Temples is a roll called the "calves-head roll," wherein every bencher, barrister, and student is taxed yearly; also meals to the cook and other officers of the houses, in consideration of a dinner of calves head, provided in Easter term. Orig. Jur. 199. —Rolls office of the chancery. In English law. An office in Chancery Lane, London, which contains rolls and records of the high court of chancery, the master whereof is the second person in the chancery, etc. The rolls court was there held, the master of the rolls sit ting as judge; and that judge still sits there as a judge of the chancery division of the high court of justice. Wharton.— Tax roll. A schedule or list of the persons and property sub ject to the payment of a particular tax, with the amounts severally due, prepared and au thenticated in proper form to warrant the col lecting officers to proceed with the enforcement of the tax. Babcock v. Beaver Creek Tp., 64 Mich. 601, 31 N. W. 423; Smith v. Scully, 66 Kan. 139, 71 Pac. 249. ROLLING STOCK. The portable or mov able apparatus and machinery of a rail road, particularly such as moves on the road, viz., engines, cars, tenders, coaches, and trucks. See Beardsley v. Ontario Bank, 31 Barb. (N. Y.) 635; Ohio & M. R. Co. v. Web er, 96 111. 448; Pittsburgh, etc., R. Co. v. Backus, 154 U. S. 421, 14 Sup. Ct 1114, 38 L. Ed. 1031. —Rolling stock protection act. The act of 35 & 36 Vict. c. 50, passed to protect the rolling stock of railways from distress or sale in certain cases. ROMA PEDITiE. Lat Pilgrims that traveled to Rome on foot ROMAN CATHOLIC CHARITIES ACT. The statute 23 & 24 Vict c. 134, providing a method for enjoying estates given upon

BOGABE. Lat In Roman law. To ask or solicit Rogare legem, to ask for the adop tion of a law, i. e., to propose it for en actment, to bring in a bill. In a derivative sense, to vote for a law so proposed; to adopt or enact it. In Roman law. An asking for a law; a proposal of a law for adoption or passage. Derivatively, a law passed by such a form. BOGATIO TESTIUM, in making a nun cupative will, is where the testator form ally calls upon the persons present to bear witness that he has declared his will. Wil liams' Ex'rs, 116; Browne, Prob. iPr. 59. In English ecclesi astical law. The second week before Whit sunday, thus called from three fasts observed therein, the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednes day, called "Rogation days," because of the extraordinary prayers then made for the fruits of the earth, or as a preparation for the devotion of Holy Thursday. Wharton. Rogationes, quaestiones, et positions* debent esse simplices. Hob. 143. De mands, questions, and claims ought to be simple. ROGATIO. La t ROGATION WEEK. ROGATORY LETTERS. A commission from one judge to another requesting him to examine a, witness. See LETTEB. Lat. In Roman law. I ask; I request, A precatory expression often used in wills. Dig. 30, 108, 13, 14. In English criminal law. An idle and disorderly person; a trickster; a wandering beggar; a vagrant or vagabond. 4 Bl. Comm. 169. In French' mer cantile law. The list of a ship's crew; a muster roll. ROLL. A schedule of parchment which may be turned up with the hand in the form of a pipe or tube. Jacob. A schedule or sheet of parchment on which legal proceedings are entered. Thus, in Eng lish practice, the roll of parchment on which the issue is entered is termed the "issue roll.'* So the rolls of a manor, wherein the names, rents, and services of the tenants are copied and enrolled, are termed the "court rolls." There are also various other rolls; as those which contain the records of the court of chancery, those which contain the registers of the proceedings of old parliaments, called "rolls of parliament," etc. Brown. In English practice, there were formerly a ROGO. ROGUE. ROLE D'EQUIPAGE. ROGATOR. Lat In Roman law. The proposer of a law or rogation.