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Rate
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RateA public valuation or assessment of every man's estate; or the ascertaining how much tax every one shall pay.
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Public
By the term the public, is meant the whole body politic, or all the citizens of the state; sometimes it signifies the inhabitants of a particular place; as, the New York public.
Valuation
The act of ascertaining the worth of a thing; or it is the esti-mated worth of a thing
Assessment
The making out a list of property, and fixing its valuation or appraisement; it is also applied to making out a list of persons, and appraising their several occupations, chiefly with a view of taxing the said persons and their property.
Estate
A right or interest in property or the property of a deceased person.
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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.
Rate
Rate of exchange
Among merchants, by rate of exchange is understood the price at which a bill drawn in one country upon another, may be sold in the former.
Ratification
The confirmation or adoption of a previous act done either by the party himself or by another.
Ratification of treaties
The constitution of the United States declares that the president shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, to make treaties, provided two-thirds of the senators present concur.
Ratihabition
Contracts. Confirmation; approbation of a contract; ratification.
Ratio decidendi
Reason for deciding, which refers to a finding of law in a decision, where the finding was based on the issues properly before the court. It is legal reasoning essential to the decision that the court must take to decide the case.
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Public
By the term the public, is meant the whole body politic, or all the citizens of the state; sometimes it signifies the inhabitants of a particular place; as, the New York public.
Valuation
The act of ascertaining the worth of a thing; or it is the esti-mated worth of a thing
Assessment
The making out a list of property, and fixing its valuation or appraisement; it is also applied to making out a list of persons, and appraising their several occupations, chiefly with a view of taxing the said persons and their property.
Estate
A right or interest in property or the property of a deceased person.
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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.
Rate
Rate of exchange
Among merchants, by rate of exchange is understood the price at which a bill drawn in one country upon another, may be sold in the former.
Ratification
The confirmation or adoption of a previous act done either by the party himself or by another.
Ratification of treaties
The constitution of the United States declares that the president shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, to make treaties, provided two-thirds of the senators present concur.
Ratihabition
Contracts. Confirmation; approbation of a contract; ratification.
Ratio decidendi
Reason for deciding, which refers to a finding of law in a decision, where the finding was based on the issues properly before the court. It is legal reasoning essential to the decision that the court must take to decide the case.
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