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. … [Read more...] about RATE OF EXCHANGE
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RATTENING
is where the members of a trade union cause the tools, clothes, or other property of a workman to be taken away or hidden, in order to compel him to join the union or cease working. It is, in England, an offense punishable by fine or imprisonment. 38 A 39 Vict. c. 86, … [Read more...] about RATTENING
RAPE
In criminal law. The unlawful carnal knowledge of a woman by a man forcibly and against her will. In English law. An intermediate division between a shire and a hundred; or a division of a county, containing several hundreds. 1 Bl. Comm. 116; Cowell. Apparently peculiar to the county of Sussex. Rape of the forest. In old English law. Trespass committed in a forest by violence. … [Read more...] about RAPE
RATE OF INTEREST
The amount of interest that a lender charges to lend money. … [Read more...] about RATE OF INTEREST
RAVISHED
In criminal practice. A material word in indictments for rape. Whart. Crim. Law, … [Read more...] about RAVISHED