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  • ROSTER
    A list of persons who are to perform certain legal duties when called upon in their turn. In military affairs it Is a table or plan by which the duty of officers is regulated. See Matthews v. Bowman, 25 Me. 167.
  • ROTA
    L. Lat Succession; rotation. "Rota of presentations;" "rota of the terms." 2 W. BU 772, 773. The name of two ancient courts, one held at Borne and the other at Genoa.
  • ROTA
    Span. In Spanish law. Obliterated. White, New Recop. .b. 3, tit 7, c. 5. s 2.
  • ROTHER-BEAST8
    A term which includes oxen, cows, steers, heifers, and such like horned animals. Cowell.
  • ROTTEN BOROUGHS
    Small boroughs in England, which prior to the reform act, 1832, returned one or more members to parliament.
  • ROTTEN CLAUSE
    A clause sometimes inserted in policies of marine insurance, to the effect that "if, on a regular survey, the ship shall be declared unseaworthy by reason of being rotten or unsound," the Insurers shall be discharged. 1 Phil. Ins. ? 849. See Steinmetz v. United States Ins. Co., 2 Serg. More...
  • ROTULUS WINTONIAE
    The roll of Winton. An exact survey of all England, made by Alfred,' not unlike that of Domesday; and it was so called because it was kept at Winchester, among other records of the kingdom; but this roll time has destroyed. Ingulph. Hist. 516.
  • ROTURE
    Fr. In old French and Canadian law. A free tenure without the privilege of nobility; the tenure of a free commoner.
  • ROTURIER
    Fr. In old French and Canadian law. A free tenant of land on services exigible either in money or in kind. Steph. Lect 229. A free commoner; one who held of a superior, .but could have no Inferior below him.
  • ROUND-ROBIN
    A circle divided from the center, like Arthur's round table, whence its supposed origin. In each compartment is a signature, so that the entire circle, when filled, exhibits a list without priority being given to any name. A common form of round-robin is simply to write the names in a More...
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