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  • 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.
  • REGRATING
    In old English law. The offense of buying or getting into one's hands at a fair or market any provisions, corn, or other dead victual, with the intention of selling the same again in the same fair or market, or in some other within four miles thereof, at a higher More...
  • REGRESS
    is used principally in the phrase "free entry, egress, and regress" but it is also used to signify the re-entry of a person who has been disseised of land. Co. Litt. 318b.
  • REGULA
    Lat. In practice. A rule. Regula generalis, a general rule; a standing rule or order of a court. Frequently abbreviated, "Reg. Gen." -Regula Catoniana. In Roman law. The rule of Cato. A rule respecting the validity of dispositions by will. See Dig. 34, 7. Regula est, juris quldem ignorantiam eulque More...
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