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  • 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...
  • RINGING THE CHANGE
    In criminal law. A trick practised by a criminal, by which, on receiving a good piece of money in payment of an article, he pretends It is not good, and, changing it, returns to the buyer a spurious coin. See 2 Leach, 786; Bouvier.
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