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  • RECTIFIER
    As used in the United States Internal revenue laws, this term is not confined to a person who runs spirits through charcoal, but is applied to any one who rectifies or purifies spirits in any manner whatever, or who makes a mixture of spirits with anything else, and sells it More...
  • RECTITUDO
    Lat Right or justice; legal dues; tribute or payment Cowell.
  • RECTO, BREVE DE
    A writ of right which was of so high a nature that as other writs in real actions were only to recover the possession of the land, etc., in question, this aimed to recover the seisin and the property, and thereby both the rights of possession and property were tried More...
  • RECTO DE ADVOCATIONE ECCLESIAE
    A writ which lay at common law, where a man had right of advowson of a church, and, the parson dying, a stranger had presented. Fitzh. Nat Brev. 30.
  • RECTO DE OUSTODIA TERRAE ET HAEREDIS
    A writ of right of ward of the land and heir. Abolished.
  • RECTO DE DOTE
    A writ of right of dower, which lay for a widow who had received part of her dower, and demanded the residue, against the heir of the husband or his guardian. Abolished. See 23 & 24 Vict, c. 126, S 26.
  • RECTO DE DOTE UNDE NIHIL HABET
    A writ of right of dower whereof the widow had nothing, which lay where her deceased husband, having divers lands or tenements, had assured no dower to his wife, and she thereby was driven to sue for her thirds against the heir or his guardian. Abolished.
  • RECTO DE RATIONABLE PARTE
    A writ of right, of the reasonable part, which lay between privies In blood; as brothers in gavelkind, sisters, and other coparceners, for land in fee-simple. Fitzh. Nat Brev. 9.
  • RECTO QUANDO (OR QUIA) DOMINUS REMISIT CURIAM
    A writ of right when or because the lord had remitted his court which lay where lands or tenements in the selgnory of any lord were in demand by a writ of right Fitzh. Nat Brev. 16.
  • RECTO SUR DISCLAIMER
    An abolished writ on disclaimer.
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