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  • 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...
  • ROUP
    In Scotch law. A sale by auction. Bell.
  • ROUT
    A rout Is an unlawful assembly which has made a motion towards the execution of the common purpose of the persons assembled. It is, therefore, between an unlawful asembly and a riot. Steph. Crim. Dig. 41. Whenever two or more persons, assembled and acting together, make any attempt or advancer More...
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