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RIXA

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Latin: In the civil law. A quarrel; a strife of words. Calvin. … [Read more...]

RIXATRIX

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In old English law. A scold; a scolding or quarrelsome woman. 4 Bl. Comm. 168. … [Read more...]

RINGING THE CHANGE

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crim. law. A trick practised by a criminal, by which, on receiving a good piece of money in payment of an article, he pretends it is not good, and, changing it, returns to the buyer a counterfeit one, as in the following case: The prosecutor having bargained with the prisoner, who was selling fruit about the streets, to have five apricot's for sixpence, gave him a good shilling … [Read more...]

RIPTOWELL, OR REAPTOWEL

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A gratuity or reward given to tenants after they had reaped their lord's corn, or done other customary duties. Cowell. … [Read more...]

RINGING UP

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A custom among commission merchants and brokers, (not unlike the clearing-house system) by which they exchange contracts for sale against contracts for purchase, or reciprocally cancel such contracts, adjust differences of price between themselves, and surrender margins. See Ward v. Vosburgh (C. C.) 31 Fed. 12; Wllllar v. Irwin, 30 Fed. Cas. 38; Pardridge v. Cutler, 68 111. … [Read more...]

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