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  • RIGHT TO BEGIN
    On the hearing or trial of a cause, or tbe argument of a demurrer, petition, etc., the right to begin ia the right of first addressing the court or jury. The right to begin is frequently of Importance, as the counsel who begins haa also tbe right of replying or More...
  • RIGHT TO REDEEM
    The term "right of redemption," or "r(ght to redeem," In familiarly used to describe the estate of tbe debtor when under mortgage, to be sold at -auction, in contradistinction to an absolute estate, to be set off by appraisement It would- be more consonant to the legal character of this More...
  • RIGHT, WRIT OF
    A procedure for the recovery of real property after not more than sixty years' adverse possession; the highest writ in the law, sometimes called, to distinguish it from others of the droitural class, the "writ of right proper." Abolished by 3 A 4 Wm. IV. c. 27. 3 Steph. Comm. More...
  • RIGHTS OF PERSONS
    Rights which concern and are annexed to the persona of men. 1 Bl. Comm. 122.
  • RIGHTS OF THINGS
    Such aa a man may acquire over external objects, or things unconnected with his person. 1 BL Comm. 122.
  • RIGHTS, PETITION OF
    See PETITION.
  • RIGOR JURIS
    Lat. Strictness of law. Latch, 150. Distinguished from gratia curfor, favor of the court.
  • RIGOR MORTIS
    In medical jurisprudence. Cadaveric rigidity; a rigidity or stiffening of the muscular tissue and joints of the body, which sets in at a greater or less interval after death, but usually within a few hours, and which is one of the recognized tests of death.
  • RING
    A clique; an exclusive combination of persons for illegitimate or selfish purposes; as to control elections or political affairs, distribute offices, obtain contracts, control the market or the stock-exchange, etc. Schomberg v. Walker, 132 Cal. 224, 64 Pac. 290.
  • RING-DROPPING
    A trick variously practiced. One mode is as follows, the circumstances being taken from 2 East, P. C. 678: The prisoner, with accomplices, being with their victim, pretend to find a ring wrapped in paper, appearing to be a jeweler's receipt for a "rich, brilliant diamond ring." They offer to More...
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