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  • R. L.
    This abbreviation may stand either for "Revised Laws" or "Roman law."
  • R. S.
    An abbreviation for "Revised Statutes."
  • RACE
    A tribe, people, or nation, belonging or supposed to belong to the same stock or lineage. "Race, color, or.previous condition of servitude." Const U. S., Am. XV.
  • RACE-WAY
    An artificial canal dug in the earth; a channel cut in the ground. Wilder v. De Cou, 26 Minn. 17, 1 N. W. 4& The channel for the current that drives a water-wheel. Webster.
  • RACHAT
    In French law. The right of repurchase which, in English and American law, the vendor may reserve-to himself. It is also called "remree' Brown.
  • RACHATER
    L. Fr. To redeem; to repurchase, (or buy back.) Kelham.
  • RACHETUM
    In Scotch law. Ransom; corresponding to Saxon "weregild," a pecuniary comitosltion for an offense. Skene; Jacob.
  • RACHIMBURGII
    In the legal polity of the Salians and Ripuarlans and other Germanic peoples, this name was given to the judges or assessors who sat with the count in his mallum, (court,) and were generally associated with him in other matters. Spelman.
  • RACK
    An engine of torture anciently used in the inquisitorial method of examining persons charged with crime, the office of which was to break the limbs or dislocate the joints.
  • RACK-RENT
    A rent of the full value of the tenement, or near It. 2 Bl. Comm. 43.
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