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Rank




Rank

The order or place in which certain officers are placed in the army and navy, in relation to others, is called their rank.

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Order
An instruction rightfully given by someone superior in hyerarchy. Also, a social state of civil coexistance without widespread public violence.

Place
Pleading, evidence. A particular portion of space; locality.

Navy
The whole shippings taken collectively, belonging to the government of an independent nation; the ships belonging to private individuals are not included in the navy.

Relation
1) Civil law. The report which the judges made of the proceedings in certain suits to the prince were so called. 2) Contracts, construction. When an act is done at one time, and it operates upon the thing as if done at another time, it is said to do so by relation.

Rank
The order or place in which certain officers are placed in the army and navy, in relation to others, is called their rank.



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Railroad
Railroad means common carrier by railroad engaged in the transportation of individuals or property or owner of trackage facilities leased by such a common carrier;

Railway
A road made with iron rails or other suitable materials.

Rain water
The water which naturally falls from the clouds.

Range
This word is used in the land laws of the United States to designate the order of the location of such lands, and in patents from the United States to individuals they are described as being within a certain range.

Range of value
The range, or confidence interval, in which the final estimate of a property's value may lie.

Rank

Ranking
In Scotland this term is used to signify the order in which the debts of a bankrupt ought to be paid.

Ransom
Money paid to have a kidnapped person released.

Rape
1) Division of a country. In the English law, this is a district similar to that of a hundred; but oftentimes containing in it more hundreds than one. 2) Criminal law. The carnal knowledge of a woman by a man forcibly and unlawfully against her will.

Rapine
Criminal law. This is almost indistinguishable from robbery. It is the felonious taking of another man's personal property, openly and by violence, against his will. The civilians define rapine to be the taking with violence, the movable property of another, with the fraudulent intent to appropriate it to one's own.

Rapport a succession
A French term used in Louisiana, which is somewhat similar in its meaning to our homely term hotch-pot. It is the reunion to the mass of the succession, of the things given by the deceased ancestor to his heir, in order that the whole may be divided among the do-heirs.

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