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  • ROMAN LAW
    This term, in a general sense, comprehends all the laws which prevailed among the Romans, without regard to the time of their origin, including the collections of Justinian. In a more restricted sense, the Germans understand by this term merely the law of Justinian, as adopted by them. Mackeld. Rom. More...
  • ROME-SCOT, OR ROME-PENNY
    Peter-pence, (q. p.) Cowell.
  • ROMNEY MARSH
    A tract of land in the county of Kent, England, containing twenty-four thousand acres, governed by certain ancient and equitable laws of sewers, composed by Henry de Bathe, a venerable judge In the reign of king Henry III.; from which laws all commissioners of sewers In England may receive light More...
  • ROOD OF LAND
    The fourth part of an acre in square measure, or one thousand two hundred and ten square yards.
  • ROOT OF DESCENT
    The same aa "stock of descent."
  • ROOT OF TITLE
    The document with which an abstract of title properly commences is called the "root" of the title. Sweet
  • ROS
    A kind of rushes, which some tenants were obliged by their tenure to furnish their lords withal. Cowell.
  • ROSLAND
    Heathy ground, or ground full of ling; also watery, and moorish land. 1 Inst 5.
  • 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.
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