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  • RULES OF A PRISON
    Certain limits without the walls, within which all prisoners in custody in civil actions were allowed to live, upon giving sufficient security to the marshal not to escape. -Rules of tbe king's bench prison. In English practice. Certain limits beyond the walls of the prison, within which all prisoners in More...
  • 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.
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