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  • 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...
  • REGULAE GENERALES
    Lat. General rules, which the courts promulgate from time to time for the regulation of their practice.
  • REGULAR
    According to rule; as distinguished from that which violates the rule or follows no rule. According to rule; as opposed to that which constitutes an exception to the rule or is not within the rule. See Zulich v. Bowman, 42 Pa. 87; Myers v. Rasback, 4 How. Prac. (N. Y.) More...
  • REGULARS
    Those who profess and follow a certain rule of life, {regula,) belong to a religious order, and observe the three approved vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. Wharton.
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