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  • 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.
  • RIDING ARMED
    In English law. tfhe offense of riding or going armed with dangerous or unusual weapons is a misdemeanor tending to disturb the public peace by terrifying the good people of the land, 4 Steph, Comm. 857.
  • RIDING CLERK
    In English law. One of the six clerks in chancery who, in his turn for one year, kept the controlmeht books of all grants that passed the great seal. The six clerks were superseded by the clerks of records and writs.
  • RIDINGS
    (corrupted from trithings.) The names of the parts or divisions of Yorkshire, which, of course, are three only, viz., East Riding, North Riding, and West Riding.
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