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This word is used in the land laws of the United States to designate the order of the location of such lands, and in patents from the United States to individuals they are described as being within a certain range. In the government survey of the United States, this term is used to denote one of the divisions of a state, and designates a row or tier of townships as they appear … [Read more...] about RANGE

1. An ethnicity, ethnic group. 2. A contest, usually referring to an election with regard to politics and law, e.g. the race for Mayor. A tribe, people, or nation, belonging or supposed to belong to the same stock or lineage. "Race, color, or previous condition of servitude." Const U. S., Am. XV. … [Read more...] about RACE

Wines drawn from the lees. Cowell. … [Read more...] about RACK-VINTAGE

In forest law. A sworn of fleer of the forest, whose office chiefly consists in three points: To walk daily through his charge to see, hear, and inquire as well of trespasses as trespassers in his bailiwick: to drive the beasts of the forest, both of venery and chace, out of the deafforested into the forested lands; and to present all trespassers of the forest at the next … [Read more...] about RANGER

An act that allowed the first person who ran to the courthouse to file and record a property deed to take precedent over second filers/recorders of the same property, regardless of whether the first filer knew of the second comers' claims to the land. … [Read more...] about RACE ACT