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Ransom
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RansomMoney paid to have a kidnapped person released.
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Money
Gold, silver, and some other less precious metals, in the progress of civilization and commerce, have become the common standards of value; in order to avoid the delay and inconvenience of regulating their weight and quality whenever passed, the governments of the civilized world have caused them to be manufactured in certain portions, and marked with a Stamp which attests their value; this is called money.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
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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
The order or place in which certain officers are placed in the army and navy, in relation to others, is called their rank.
Ranking
In Scotland this term is used to signify the order in which the debts of a bankrupt ought to be paid.
Ransom
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.
Rascatl
An opprobrious term, applied to persons of bad character. The law does not presume that a damage has arisen because the defendant has been called a rascal, and therefore no general damages can be recovered for it; if the party has received special damages in consequence of being so called, be can recover a recompense to indennify him for his loss.
Rasure
The scratching or scraping a writing, so as to prevent some part of it from being read.
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Money
Gold, silver, and some other less precious metals, in the progress of civilization and commerce, have become the common standards of value; in order to avoid the delay and inconvenience of regulating their weight and quality whenever passed, the governments of the civilized world have caused them to be manufactured in certain portions, and marked with a Stamp which attests their value; this is called money.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
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PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
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
The order or place in which certain officers are placed in the army and navy, in relation to others, is called their rank.
Ranking
In Scotland this term is used to signify the order in which the debts of a bankrupt ought to be paid.
Ransom
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.
Rascatl
An opprobrious term, applied to persons of bad character. The law does not presume that a damage has arisen because the defendant has been called a rascal, and therefore no general damages can be recovered for it; if the party has received special damages in consequence of being so called, be can recover a recompense to indennify him for his loss.
Rasure
The scratching or scraping a writing, so as to prevent some part of it from being read.
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