Properly the final adjournment of the court for the term, though the term is also sometimes used to express the cessation of judicial business for the day or for a recess; it is the opposite of "sitting" or "session." See State v. Weaver, 11 feb. 163, 8 Ni Wi 865. … [Read more...]
ROARING
A disease among horses occasioned by the circumstance of the neck of the windpipe being too narrow for accelerated respiration; the disorder is frequently produced by sore throat or other topical inflammation. 2. A horse affected with this malady is rendered less serviceable, and he is therefore unsound. … [Read more...]
RIOTOUS ASSEMBLY
In English criminal law. The unlawful assembling of twelve persons or more, to the disturbance of the peace, and not dispersing upon proclamation. 4 Bl. Comm. 142; 4 Steph. Comm. 273. And see Madisonvllle v. Bishop, 113 Ky. 106, 67 S. W. 269, 57 L. R. A. 130. … [Read more...]
RIOTOUSLY
A technical word, properly used in indictments for riot. It of itself implies force and violence. 2 Chit. Crim. Law, 489. … [Read more...]
RIPA
The bank of a river, or the place beyond which the waters do not in their natural course overflow. 2. An extraordinary overflow does not change the banks of the river. … [Read more...]