In pleading. To answer a plaintiff's replication in an action at law, by some matter of fact. … [Read more...]

Those who profess and follow a certain rule of life, {regula,) belong to a religious order, and observe the three approved vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. Wharton. … [Read more...]

In common law pleading. The second pleading on the part of the defendant, being his answer of matter of fact to the plaintiff's replication. … [Read more...]

This is a book preserved in the English court of chancery, in which were entered, from time to time, all forms of writs once issued. 2. It was first printed and published in the reign of Henry VIII. This book is still in authority, as containing, in general, an accurate transcript of the forms of all writs as then framed, and as they ought still to be framed in modern practice. … [Read more...]

A royal professor or reader of lectures founded in the English universities by the king. Henry VIII. founded in each of the universities five professorships, viz., of divinity, Greek, Hebrew, law, and physic. Cowell. … [Read more...]