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  • REVOLT
    The endeavor of the crew of a vessel, or any one or more of them, to ooverthrow the legitimate authority of her commander, with intent to remove him from his command, or against his will to take possession of the vessel by assuming the government and navigation of her, or More...
  • REWARD
    A recompense or premium offered by government or an individual in return for special or extraordinary services to be performed, or for special attainments or achievements, or for some act resulting to the benefit of the public; as, a reward for useful inventions,; for the discovery and apprehension of criminals, More...
  • REWME
    In old records. Realm, or kingdom.
  • REX
    Lat. The king. The king regarded as the party prosecuting in a criminal action; as in the form of entitling such actions, "Rex v. Doe." Ren debet esse snb lege qnia lex faoit regent. The king ought to be under the law, because the law makes the king. 1 BL More...
  • RHANDIR
    A part in the division of Wales before the Conquest; every township comprehended four gavels, and every gavel had four rhandirs, and four houses or tenements constituted every rhandir. Tayl. Hist. Gav. 69.
  • RHODIAN LAWS
    This, the earliest Code or collection of maritime laws, was formulated by the people of the island of Rhodes, who, by their commercial prosperity and the superiority of their navies, had acquired the sovereignty of the seas. Its date is very uncertain, but is supposed (by Kent and others) to More...
  • RIAL
    A piece of gold coin current for 10s., in the reign of Henry VI., at which time there were half-rials and quarter-rials or rial-farthings. In the beginning of Queen Elizabeth's reign, golden rials were coined at 15s. a piece; and in the time of James I. there were rose-rials of More...
  • RIBAUD
    A rogue; vagrant; whoremonger; a person given to all manner of wickedness. Cowell.
  • RIBBONMEN
    Associations or secret societies formed in Ireland, having for their object the dispossession of landlords by murder and fire-raising. Wharton.
  • RICHARD ROE, OTHERWISE TROUBLESOME.
    The casual ejector and fictitious defendant in ejectment, whose services are no longer invoked.
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