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Rector
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RectorEcclesiastical law. One who rules or governs a name given to certain officers of the Roman church.
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Ecclesiastical
Belonging to, or set apart for the church.
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Rules
English law. The rules of the King's Bench and Fleet are certain limits without the actual walls of the prisons, where the prisoner, on proper security previously given to the marshal of the king's bench, or warden of the fleet, may reside; those limits are considered, for all legal and practical purposes, as merely a further extension of the prison walls.
Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.
Church
A temple or building consecrated to the Honor of God and religion; or, an assembly of persons, united by the profession of the same Christian faith, met together for all religious worship. Robertson v. Bullions, 9 Barb. 95 (1850). The civil courts have only to do with the rights of property. When a right of property depends on a civil court question, and that question has been decided by the highest tribunal within the religious organization to which it has been carried, the civil courts accept that decision as final. Relations of Civil Law to Church Policy (1875) Hon. William Strong; Watson v. Jones, 13 Wall. 713, 722-31 (1871).
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Recto
Right.
Rectory
English law. Corporeal real property, consisting of a church, glebe lands and tithes.
Rectus in curia
Right in court. One who stands at the bar, and no one objects any offence, or prefers any charge against him.
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Recreant
A Coward; a poltroon.
Recrimination
Criminal law. An accusation made by a person accused against his accuser, either of having committed the same offence, or another.
Recross
The second round of cross-examination that occurs after redirect in a trial.
Recruit
A newly made soldier.
Recto
Right.
Rector
Rectory
English law. Corporeal real property, consisting of a church, glebe lands and tithes.
Rectus in curia
Right in court. One who stands at the bar, and no one objects any offence, or prefers any charge against him.
Recuperatores
Roman civil law. A species of judges originally established, it is supposed, to decide controversies between Roman citizens and strangers, concerning the right to the possession of property requiring speedy remedy; but gradually extended to questions which might be brought before ordinary judges.
Recusants
Recusants or Popish recusants. English law. Persons who refuse to make the declarations against popery, and such as promote, encourage, or profess the popish religion.
Recusation
Civil law. A plea or exception by which the defendant requires that the judge having jurisdiction of the cause, should abstain from deciding upon the ground of interest, or for a legal objection to his prejudice.
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Ecclesiastical
Belonging to, or set apart for the church.
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Rules
English law. The rules of the King's Bench and Fleet are certain limits without the actual walls of the prisons, where the prisoner, on proper security previously given to the marshal of the king's bench, or warden of the fleet, may reside; those limits are considered, for all legal and practical purposes, as merely a further extension of the prison walls.
Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.
Church
A temple or building consecrated to the Honor of God and religion; or, an assembly of persons, united by the profession of the same Christian faith, met together for all religious worship. Robertson v. Bullions, 9 Barb. 95 (1850). The civil courts have only to do with the rights of property. When a right of property depends on a civil court question, and that question has been decided by the highest tribunal within the religious organization to which it has been carried, the civil courts accept that decision as final. Relations of Civil Law to Church Policy (1875) Hon. William Strong; Watson v. Jones, 13 Wall. 713, 722-31 (1871).
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Recto
Right.
Rectory
English law. Corporeal real property, consisting of a church, glebe lands and tithes.
Rectus in curia
Right in court. One who stands at the bar, and no one objects any offence, or prefers any charge against him.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Recreant
A Coward; a poltroon.
Recrimination
Criminal law. An accusation made by a person accused against his accuser, either of having committed the same offence, or another.
Recross
The second round of cross-examination that occurs after redirect in a trial.
Recruit
A newly made soldier.
Recto
Right.
Rector
Rectory
English law. Corporeal real property, consisting of a church, glebe lands and tithes.
Rectus in curia
Right in court. One who stands at the bar, and no one objects any offence, or prefers any charge against him.
Recuperatores
Roman civil law. A species of judges originally established, it is supposed, to decide controversies between Roman citizens and strangers, concerning the right to the possession of property requiring speedy remedy; but gradually extended to questions which might be brought before ordinary judges.
Recusants
Recusants or Popish recusants. English law. Persons who refuse to make the declarations against popery, and such as promote, encourage, or profess the popish religion.
Recusation
Civil law. A plea or exception by which the defendant requires that the judge having jurisdiction of the cause, should abstain from deciding upon the ground of interest, or for a legal objection to his prejudice.
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