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  • RUMOR
    Flying or popular report; a current story passing from one person to another without any known authority for the truth of it Webster. It is not generally admissible in evidence. State v. Culler, 82 Mo. 626; Smith v. Moore, 74 Vt 81, 52 Atl. 320.
  • RUN
    v. To have currency or legal validity in a prescribed territory; as, the writ ran throughout the county. To have applicability or legal effect during a prescribed period of time; as, the statute of limitations has run against the claim. To follow or accompany; to be attached to another thing More...
  • RUN
    n. In American law. A watercourse of small size. Webb v. Bedford,'2 Bibb. (Ky.) 354.
  • RUNCARIA
    in old records. Land full of brambles and briars. I Inst "5a,
  • RUNCINUS
    In old English law. A Joad-horse; a sumpter-horse or cart-horse.
  • RUNDLET, OR RUNLET
    A measure of wine, oil, etc., containing eighteen gallons and a half. Cowell.
  • RUNNING ACCOUNT
    An open unset-tied account, as distinguished from a stated and liquidated account "Running accounts mean mutual accounts and reciprocal demands between the parties, which accounts and demands remain open and unsettled.1' Brackenrldge v. Baltzell, 1 Ind. 335; Leonard v. U. S., 18 Ct CI. 385; Picker v. Fitzelle, 28 App. More...
  • RUNNING AT LARGE
    This term is applied to wandering or straying animals.
  • RUNNING DAYS
    Days counted in their regular succession on the calendar, In eluding Sundays and holidays. Brown v. Johnson, 10 Mees. ft W. 334; Crowell v. Bar-reda, 16 Gray (Mass.) 472; Davis v. Pender-gast 7 Fed. Cas. 162.
  • RUNNING LEASE
    Where a lease provided that the tenancy should not be confined to any portion of the land granted, but allowed the tenant the use of all the land he could clear, it was called in the old books a "running lease," as distinguished from one confined to a particular division, More...
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