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A rent payable in grain, work, and the like; It was also called black mail. This name was given to it to distinguish it from reditus albi, which was payable in money. Vide Alba firma. … [Read more...] about REDITUS NIGRI

In feudal law. Men who, by the tenure or custom of their lands, were to ride with or for the lord of the manor, about his business. Domesday. … [Read more...] about REDMANS

In old English law. Those that buy stolen cloth and turn it into some other color or fashion that it may not be recognized. Redubbers. … [Read more...] about REDOBATORES

In commercial law. A draft or bill drawn in the place where the original bill was made payable and where it went to protest on the place where such original bill was drawn, or, when there is no regular commercial intercourse rendering that practicable, then in the next best or most direct practicable course. 1 Bell. Comm. 400. … [Read more...] about REDRAFT

Heavy fines, contradistinguished from misericordia. … [Read more...] about REDEMPTIONES