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  • DE QUOTA LITIS
    In the civil law. A contract by which one who has a claim difficult to recover agrees with another to give a part, for the purpose of obtaining his services to recover the rest 1 Duval, note 201.
  • DE RAPTU VIRGINUM
    Of the ravishment of maids. The name of an appeal formerly In use in England in cases of rape. Bract, fol. 147; 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 38.
  • DE RATIONABILI PARTE BONORUM
    A writ which lay for the wife and children of a deceased person against his executors, to recover their reasonable part or share of his goods. 2 Bl. Comm. 492; Fitzh. Nat Brev. 122, L; Hopkins v. Wright, 17 Tex. 36.
  • DE RATIONABILIBUS DIVISIS
    Writ for fixing reasonable boundaries. A writ which lay to settle the boundaries between the lands of persons in different towns, where one complained of encroachment Reg. Orig. 157b; Fitzh. Nat Brev. 128, M; Rose. Real Act 31; 3 Reeve, Eng. Law, 48.
  • DE REBUS
    Of things. The title of the third part of the Digests or Pandects, comprising books 12-19, inclusive.
  • DE REBUS DUBIIS
    Of doubtful things or matters. Dig. 84, 5.
  • DE RECORDO ET PROCESSU MITTENDIS
    Writ to send the record and process of a cause to a superior court; a species of writ of error. Reg. Orig. 209.
  • DE RECTO
    Writ of right Reg. Orig. 1, 2; Bract fol. 327b. See WRIT OF RIGHT.
  • DE RECTO DE ADVOCATIONE
    Writ of right of advowson. Reg. Orig. 29b. A writ which lay for one who had an estate In an advowson to him and his heirs in fee-simple, if he were disturbed to present Fitzh. Nat Brev. 80, B. Abolished by St 3 A 4 Wm. IV. c. 27.
  • DE RECTO DE RATIONABILI PARTE
    Writ of right, of reasonable part A writ which lay between privies in blood, as between brothers in gavelkind, or between sisters or other coparceners for lands in fee-simple, where one was deprived of his or her share by another. Reg. Orig. 3b; Fitzh. Nat Brev. 9, B. Abolished by More...
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