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  • RATIONS SOLI
    Lat. On account of the soil; with reference to the soil. Said to be the ground of ownership in bees. 2 BL Comm. 393.
  • RATIONS TENURAE
    L. Lat. By reason of tenure; as a consequence of tenure. 3 Bl. Comm. 230.
  • RATIONES
    In old law. The pleadings in a suit Rations* exercere, or ad rationem stare, to plead.
  • RATTENING
    is where the members of a trade union cause the tools, clothes, or other property of a workman to be taken away or hidden, in order to compel him to join the union or cease working. It is, in England, an offense punishable by fine or imprisonment. 38 A 39 More...
  • RAVISHED
    In criminal practice. A material word in indictments for rape. Whart. Crim. Law, $ 401.
  • RAVISHMENT
    In criminal law. An unlawful taking of a woman, or of an heir in ward. Rape. -Ravishment de gard. IA Fr. An abolished writ which lay for a guardian by knight's service or in socage, against a person who took from him the body of his ward. Fitzh. Nat Brev. More...
  • RAZE
    To erase. 8 How. State Tr. 156,
  • RAZON
    In Spanish law. Cause, (causa.) Las Partidas, pt 4, tit 4, 1. 2.
  • RE
    Lat In the matter of; in the case Of. A term of frequent use in designating judicial proceedings, in which there is only one party. Thus, "Re Vivian" signifles "In the matter of Vivian," or in "Vivian's Case."
  • RE. FA. LO.
    The abbreviation of "re-cordari facias loquelam" (q. v.) Re, verbis, seripto, consensu, tradi-tione, jnnetnra vestes snmere pacta solent. Compacts usually take their clothing from the thing itself, from words, from writing, from consent, from delivery. Plowd. 161.
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