KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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RULE

ROUTE

ROYALTY. A payment reserved by the grantor of a patent, lease of a mine, or simil ar right, and payable proportionately to the use made of the right by the grantee. See Raynolds v. Hanna (C. C.) 55 Fed. 800; Hubenthal v. Kennedy, 76 Iowa, 707, 39 N. W. 694; Western Union Tel. Co. v. American Bell Tel. Co., 125 Fed. 342, 60 C. C. A. 220. Royalty also sometimes means a payment which is made to an author or composer by an assignee or licensee in respect of each copy of his work which is sold, or to an in ventor in respect of each article sold under the patent Sweet. RUBRIC. Directions printed in books of law and in prayer-books, so termed because they were originally distinguished by red ink. —Rubric of a statute. Its title, which was anciently printed in red letters. It serves to show the object of the legislature, and thence affords the means of interpreting the body of the act; hence the phrase, of an argument, "o rubro ad nigrum." Wharton. RUDENESS. Roughness; incivility; vio lence. Touching another with rudeness may constitute a battery. RULE, v. This verb has two significa tions: (1) to command or require by a rule of court; as, to rule the sheriff to return the writ, to rule the defendant to plead. (2) To settle or decide a point of law arising up on a trial at nisi prim; and, when it is said of a judge presiding at such a trial that he "ruled" so and so, it is meant that he laid down, settled, or decided such and such to be the law. RULE, n. 1. An established standard, guide, or regulation; a principle or regula tion set up by authority, prescribing or di recting action or forbearance; as, the rules of a legislative body, of a company, court, public office, of the law, of ethics. 2. A regulation made by a court of justice or public office with reference to the conduct of business therein. 3. An order made by a court, at the in stance of one of the parties to a suit, com manding a ministerial officer, or the opposite party, to do some act, or to show cause why some act should not be done. It is usually upon some interlocutory matter, and has not the force or solemnity of a decree or judg ment. 4. "Rule" sometimes means a rule of law. Thus, we speak of the rule against perpetui ties ; the rule in Shelley's Case, etc. — Cross-rules. These were rules where each of the opposite litigants obtained a rule nisi, as the plaintiff to increase the damages, and the defendant to enter a nonsuit. Wharton.— Gen eral rules. General or standing orders of a RUINA. Lat In the civil law. Ruin, the falling of a house. Dig. 47, 9.

advance toward th« commission of an act which would be a riot if actually committed, such assembly is a rout Pen. Code Cal. i 406. And see People v. Judson, 11 Daly (N. Y.) 23; Follis v. State, 37 Tex. Cr. R. 535, 40 S. W. 277. ROUTE. Fr. In French insurance law. The way that is taken to make the voyage insured. The direction of the voyage as sured. ROUTOUSLY. In pleading. A technical word in indictments, generally coupled with the word "riotously." 2 Chit Crim. Law, 488. ROT. L. Fr. The king. Roy est l'original de touts franchises. Keilw. 138. The king is the origin of all franchises. Roy n'est lie per ascun statute si il ne soit expressment nosme. The king is not bound by any statute, unless expressly named. Jenk. Cent. 307; Broom, Max. 72. Roy poet dispenser ove malum pro hibitum, mais non malum per se. Jenk. Cent. 307. The king can grant a dispensa tion for a malum prohibitum, but not for a malum per se. ROYAL. Of or pertaining to or proceed ing from the king or sovereign in a mon archical government —Royal assent. The royal assent is the last form through which a bill goes previously to be coming an act of parliament It is, in the words of Lord Hale, "the complement and per fection of a law." The royal assent is given either by the queen in person or by royal com mission by the queen herself, signed with her own hand. It is rarely given in person, except when at the end of the session the queen attends to prorogue parliament, if she should do so. Brown.— Royal burghs. Boroughs incorpo rated in Scotland by royal charter. Bell.— Royal courts of justice. Under the statute 42 & 43 Vict c. 78, § 28, this is the name given to the buildings, together with all additions thereto, erected under the courts of justice building act, 1865, (28 & 29 Vict. c. 48,) and courts of justice concentration (site) act 1865, (28 & 29 Vict c. 49.) Brown.— Royal fish. See FISH.— Royal grants. Conveyances of record in England. They are of two kinds: (1) Letters patent; and (2) letters close, or writs close. 1 Steph. Comma.. 615-618.— Royal hon ors. In the language of diplomacy, this term designates the privilege enjoyed by every empire or kingdom in Europe, by the pope, the grand duchies of Germany, and the Germanic and Swiss confederations, to precedence over all oth ers who do not enjoy the same rank, with the exclusive right of sending to other states public ministers of the first rank, as .ambassadors, to gether with other distinctive titles and cere monies. Wheat Int. Law, pt 2, c. 3, § 2.— Royal mines. Mines of silver and gold be longed to the king of England, as part of his prerogative of coinage, to furnish him with ma terial. 1 Bl. Coram. 294.

ROYALTIES.

Regalities; royal prop-

'erty.