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  • 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.
  • RICOHOME
    Span. In Spanish law. A nobleman; a count or baron. 1 White, Re-4op. 36.
  • RIDER
    A rider, or rider-roll, signifles a schedule or small piece of parchment annexed to some part of a roll or record. It is frequently familiarly used for any kind of a schedule or writing annexed to a document which cannot well be Incorporated in the body of such document. Thus, More...
  • RIDER-ROLL
    See RIDER.
  • RIDGLING
    A half-castrated horse. Bris-co v. State, 4 Tex. App. 221, 30 Am. Rep. 162.
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