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  • 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...
  • RURAL SERVITUDE
    In the civil law. A servitude annexed to a rural, estate, (prcedium rusticum.)
  • RUSE DE GUERRE
    Fr. A trick in war; a stratagem.
  • RUSTICI
    Lat. In Feudal Law. Natives of a conquered country. In old English law. Inferior country tenants, churls, or chorls, who held cottages and lands by the services of plowing, and other labors of agriculture, for the lord. Cowell.
  • RUSTICUM FORUM
    Lat. A rude, unlearned, or unlettered tribunal; a term sometimes applied to arbitrators selected by the parties to settle a dispute. See Underbill v. Van Cortlandt, 2 Johns. Ch. (N. Y.) 339; Dickinson v. Chesapeake ft O. R. Co., 7 W. Va. 429.
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