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(adjective) - In English law. Excessive ; too large in amount; as a rank modus, 2 BL Comm. 30.(noun) - The order or place in which certain officers are placed in the army and navy, in relation to others. Wood v. U. S.f 15 Ct. CI. 158. … [Read more...] about RANK

See Race Act except this act allows the first filer to have a precedence of interest over second filers only if the first filer is unaware of other unrecorded claims to the property. … [Read more...] about RACE NOTICE ACT

A political party. The term arose in England, in 1818, when te popular leaders, Hunt Cartwright, and others, sought to obtain a radical reform In the representative system of parliament. Bolingbroke (Disc. Parties, Let. 18) employs the term in Its present accepted sense: "Such a remedy might have wrought a radical cure of the evil that threatens our constitution," etc. Wharton. … [Read more...] about RADICALS

In Scotland this term is used to signify the order in which the debts of a bankrupt ought to be paid. … [Read more...] about RANKING

Such as U.S. Patent law, a law in certain jurisdictions that the first to file (as opposed to invent or perform some other essential process) is the holder of the right. … [Read more...] about RACE STATUTE