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  • 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.
  • RECTOR
    In English law. He that has full possession of a parochial church. A rector (or parson) has, for the most part, the whole right to all the ecclesiastical dues in his parish; while a vicar has an appropriates over him, entitled to the best part of the profits, to whom More...
  • RECTOR PROVINCIAE
    Lat In Roman law. The governor of a province. Cod. 1,40.
  • RECTOR SINECURE
    A rector of a parish who has not the cure of souls. 2 Steph. Cqmm. 683.
  • RECTORIAL TITHES
    Great or predial tithes.
  • RECTORY
    An entire parish chucr, with all its rights, glebes, tithes, and other profits whatsoever; otherwise commonly called a "benefice." See Gibson v. Brockway, 8 N..H. 470, 31 Am. Dec. 200; Pawlet v. Clark, 9 Cranch, 826, 3 L. Ed. 735. A rector's manse, or; parsonage house. Spelman.
  • RECTUM
    Lat Right ; also a trial or accusation. Bract; Cowell. -- Rectum esse. To be right in court--- Rectum rogare. To ask for right; to petition, the judge to do right.-Rectum, stare ad.' To stand trial or abide by the sentence of the court.
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