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ROLE DEQUIPAGE

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(Role D'Equipage) The list of a ship's crew; the muster roll. … [Read more...]

ROSLAND

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Heathy ground, or ground full of ling; also watery, and moorish land. 1 Inst 5. … [Read more...]

ROLE D’EQUIPAGE

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In French mercantile law. The list of a ship's crew; a muster roll. … [Read more...]

ROSTER

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A list of persons who are to perform certain legal duties when called upon in their turn. In military affairs it is a table or plan by which the duty of officers is regulated. See Matthews v. Bowman, 25 Me. 167. … [Read more...]

ROLL

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A schedule of parchment which may be turned up with the hand in the form of a pipe or tube. Jacob. A schedule or sheet of parchment on which legal proceedings are entered. Thus, in English practice, the roll of parchment on which the issue is entered is termed the "issue roll." So the rolls of a manor, wherein the names, rents, and services of the tenants are copied and … [Read more...]

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