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  • REGISTRATION
    Recording; inserting in an official register; the act of making a list, catalogue, schedule, or register, particularly of an official character, or of making entries therein. In re Supervisors of Election (C. C.) 1 Fed. 1. -Registration of stoek. In the practice of corporations this consists in recording in the More...
  • REGISTRUM BREVIUM
    The register of writs, (q. v.)
  • REGISTRY
    A register, or book authorized or recognized by law, kept for the recording or registration of facts or documents. In oommereial law. The registration of a vessel at the custom-house, for the purpose of entitling her to the full privileges of a British or American built vessel. 3 Kent, Comm. More...
  • REGIUS PROFESSOR
    A royal professor or reader of lectures founded in the English universities by the king. Henry VIII. founded in each of the universities five professorships, viz., of divinity, Greek, Hebrew, law, and physic. Cowell.
  • REGLAMENTO
    In Spanish colonial law* A written instruction given by a competent authority, without the observance of any peculiar form. Schm. Civil Law, Introd. 93, note.
  • REGNAL YEARS
    Statutes of the British parliament are usually cited by the name and year of the sovereign in whose reign they were enacted, and the successive years of the reign of any king or queen are denominated the "regnal years."
  • REGNANT
    One having authority as a king; one in the exercise of royal authority.
  • REGNI POPULI
    A name given to the people of Surrey and Sussex, and on the sea-coasts of Hampshire. Blount
  • REGNUM ECCLESIASTICUM
    The ecclesiastical kingdom. 2 Hale, P. C. 324. Regnum non est diviaibile. Co. Litt. 165. The kingdom is not divisible.
  • REGRANT
    In the English law of real property, when, after a person has made a grant, the property granted comes back to him, (c. p., by escheat or forfeiture,) and he grants it again, he is said to regrant it. The phrase is chiefly used in the law of copyholds.
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