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  • RITE
    Lat Duly and formally; legally; properly; technically.
  • RIVAGE
    In French law. The shore, as of the sea. In Englisb law. A toll anciently paid to the crown for the passage of boats or vessels on certain rivers. Cowell.
  • RIVEARE
    To have the liberty of a river for fishing and fowling. Cowell.
  • RIVER
    A natural stream of water, of greater volume than a creek or rivulet, flowing in a more or less permanent bed or channel, between defined banks or walls, with a current which may either be continuous in one direction or affected by the ebb and flow of the tide. See More...
  • RIXA
    Lat In the civil law. A quarrel; a strife of words. Calvin.
  • RIXATRIX
    In old English law. A scold; a scolding or quarrelsome woman. 4 Bl. Comm. 168.
  • ROAD
    A highway; an open way or public passage; a line of travel or communication extending from one town or place to an-( other; a strip of land appropriated and nsed for 'purposes of travel and communication between different places. See Stokes V. Scott County, 10. Iowa, 176; Com. v. Gammons,. More...
  • ROADSTEAD
    In maritime law. A known general station for ships, notoriously used as such, and distinguished by the name; and hot any spot where an anchor swill find bottom and fix itself. 1 C. Rob. Adm. 232.
  • ROBBATOR
    Iu old English law. A robber. Robbatores et buralatores, robbers and burglars. Bract fol. 115b.
  • ROBBER
    One who commits a robbery. The term is not in law. synonymous with "thief," but applies only to one who steals with force or open violence. See De Roths?* child T. Royal Mail. Steam Packet Co" X Exch. 742; The Manitoba (D. C.) 104 Fed,. 16L
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