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  • 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...
  • RUNNING OF THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS
    A metaphorical expression, by which is meant that the time mentioned in the statute of limitations Is considered as passing. 1 Bouv. Inst no. 861.
  • RUNNING POLICY
    A running policy Is one which contemplates successive insurances, and which provides that the object of the policy may be from time to time defined, especially as to the subjects of insurance, by additional statements or indorsements. Civ. Code Cal. ? 2597. And see Corporation of London Assurance v. Paterson, More...
  • RUNNING WITH THE LAND
    A covenant is said to run with the land when either the liability to perform it or the right to take advantage of it passes to the assignee of that land. Brown.
  • RUNNING WITH THE REVERSION
    A covenant is said to "run with the reversion" when either the liability to perform it or the right to take advantage of it passes to the assignee of that reversion. Brown.
  • RUNRIG LANDS
    Lands In Scotland where the ridges of a field belong alternatively to different proprietors. Anciently this kind of possession was advantageous In giving a united interest to tenants to resist inroads. By the act of 1695, a 23, a division of these lands was authorized, with the exception of lands More...
  • RUPEE
    A silver coin of India, rated at 2s. for the current and 2s. 3d. for the Bombay, rupee.
  • RUPTUM
    Lat In the civil law. Broken. A term applied to a will. Inst 2, 17, 3.
  • RURAL DEANERY
    The circuit of an archdeacon's and rural dean's jurisdictions. Every rural deanery is divided Into parishes. See 1 Steph. Comm. 117.
  • RURAL DEANS
    In English ecclesiastical law. Very ancient officers of the church; almost grown out of use, until about the middle of the present century, about which time they were generally revived, whose deaneries are as an ecclesiastical division of the diocese or archdeaconry. Tbey are deputies of the bishop, planted all More...
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