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  • RETURNING BOARD
    This is the official title in some of the states of the board of canvassers of elections.
  • RETURNING FROM TRANSPORTATION
    Coming back to England before the term of punishment is determined.
  • RETURNING OFFICER
    The official who conducts a parliamentary election in England. The sheriff in counties, and the mayor in boroughs. Wharton.
  • RETURNUM AVERIORUM
    A judicial writ, similar' to the retorno habendo. Cowell.
  • RETURNUM IRREPLEGIABLE
    A judicial writ addressed to the sheriff for the final restitution or return of cattle to the owner when unjustly taken or distrained, and so found by verdict It is granted after a nonsuit in a second deliverance. Reg. Jud 27.
  • REUS
    Lat In the civil and canon law. The defendant in an action or suit. A person judicially accused of a criine; a person criminally proceeded against. Halll-fax, Civil Law, b. 3, c 13, no. 7. A party to a suit, whether plaintiff or de: fendant; a litigant This was the More...
  • REVE
    In old English law. The bailiff of a" franchise or manor; an officer in parishes within forests, who marks the commonable cattle. Cowell.
  • REVE MOTE
    In Saxon law. The court of the reve, reeve, or shire reeve. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 6.
  • REVEL
    A criminal complaint charged that the defendant did "revel, quarrel, commit mischief, and otherwise behave In a disorderly manner." Held, that the word "revel" has a definite meaning; i. e., "to behave in a noisy, boisterous manner, like a bacchanal." In re Began, 12 B. I. 309.
  • REVELAND
    The land which in Domesday Is said to have been "thane-lancd," and afterwards converted into "reveland" It seems to have been land which, having reverted to the king after the death of the thane, who had it for life, was not granted out to any by the king, but rested More...
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