KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

RUNCINUS

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RUSTICUM JUDICIUM

RUNCINUS. In old English law. A load-horse; a sumpter-horse or cart-horse.

passes to the assignee of that reversion. Brown. RUNRIG LANDS. Lands in Scotland where the ridges of a field belong alterna tively to different proprietors. Anciently this kind of possession was advantageous in giving a united interest to tenants to resist inroads. By the act of 1695, c. 23, a division of these lands was authorized, with the ex ception of lands belonging to corporations. Wharton. RUPEE. A silver coin of India, rated at 2s. for the current, and 2s. 3d. for the Bom bay, rupee. RUFTUM. Lat In the civil law. Broken. A term applied to a will. Inst 2, 17, 3. RURAL DEANERY. The circuit of an archdeacon's and rural dean's jurisdictions. Every rural deanery is divided into parishes. See 1 Steph. Comm. 117. RURAL DEANS. In English ecclesias tical la\.. Very ancient ofiicers of the church, almost grown out of use, until about the middle of the present century, about which time they were generally revived, whose deaneries are as an ecclesiastical di vision of the diocese or archdeaconry. They are deputies of the bishop, planted all round his diocese, to inspect the conduct of the parochial clergy, to inquire into and report dilapidations, and to examine candidates for confirmation, armed in minuter matters with an inferior degree of judicial and coercive authority. Wharton. RURAL SERVITUDE. In the civil law. A servitude annexed to a rural estate, (prcedbum rusticum.) RUSE DE GUERRE. Fr. A trick in war; a stratagem. RUSTICI. Lat In feudal law. Na tives of a conquered country. In old English law. Inferior country tenants, churls, or chorls, who held cottages and lands by the services of plowing, and other labors of agriculture, for the lord. Cowell. RUSTICUM FORUM. Lat A rude, un learned, or unlettered tribunal; a term some times applied to arbitrators selected by the parties to settle a dispute. See Underhill v. Van Cortlandt 2 Johns. Ch. (N. Y.) 339; Dickinson T. Chesapeake & O. R. Co., 7 W. Va. 429. RUSTICUM JUDICIUM. Lat In mari time law. A rough or rude judgment or decision. A judgment in admiralty dividing

RUNDIiET, or RUNLET. A measure of wine, oil, etc., containing eighteen gallons and a half. Cowell. RUNNING ACCOUNT. An open unset tled account, as distinguished from a stated and liquidated account. "Running accounts mean mutual accounts and reciprocal de mands between the parties, which accounts and demands remain open and unsettled." Brackenridge v. Baltzell, 1 Ind. 335; Leonard v. U. S., 18 Ct CI. 385; Picker v. Fitzelle, 28 App. Div. 519, 51 N. Y. Supp. 205. RUNNING DAYS. Days counted in their regular succession on the calendar, in cluding Sundays and holidays. Brown v. Johnson, 10 Mees. & W. 334; Crowell v. Bar reda, 16 Gray (Mass.) 472; Davis v. Pender gast, 7 Fed. Cas. 162. RUNNING LEASE. Where a lease pro vided that the tenancy should not be con fined to any portion of the land granted, but allowed the tenant the use of all the land he could clear, it was called in the old books a "running lease," as distinguished from one confined to a particular division, circum scribed by metes and bounds, within a larger tract. Cowan v. Hatcher (Tenn. Ch. App.) 59 S. W. 691. RUNNING OF THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS. A metaphorical expres sion, by which is meant that the time men tioned in the statute of limitations is con sidered as passing. 1 Bouv. Inst no. 861. RUNNING FOLICY. A running policy is one which contemplates successive in surances, and which provides that the object 'of the policy may be from time to time de fined, especially as to the subjects of insur ance, by additional statements or indorse ments. Civ. Code Cal. § 2597. And see Cor poration of London Assurance v. Paterson, 106 Ga. 538, 32 S. E. 650. RUNNING WITH THE LAND. A cov enant is said to run with the land when either the liability to perform it or the right to take advantage of it passes to the assignee of that land. Brown. RUNNING WITH THE REVERSION. A covenant is said to "run with the rever sion" when either the liability to perform it or the right to take advantage of it RUNNING AT LARGE. This term is applied to wandering or straying animals.