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  • 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.
  • RECTUS IN CURIA
    Lat. Right in court The condition of one who stands at the bar, against whom no one objects any offense. When a person outlawed has reversed his outlawry, so that he can have the benefit of the law, he ia said to be "rectus in curia." Jacob.
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