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  • 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 The six clerks were superseded by the clerks of records and writs.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.
  • RIEN
    L. Fr. Nothing. It appears in a few law French phrases. -Rien oulp. In old pleading. Not guilty. -Rien dit. In old pleading.' Says nothing, (nil dicit.)-Rien lny doit. In old pleading. Owes him nothing. The plea of nil debet.- Riens en arrere.. Nothing in arrear. A plea in an More...
  • RIER COUNTY
    In old English law. After-county; i. e. after the end of the county court A time and place appointed by the sheriff for the receipt of the king's money after the end of his county, or county, court Cowell.
  • RIFLETUM
    A coppice or thicket. Cowell.
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