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In India. A peasant, subject, or tenant of house or land. Wharton. Ryot-tenure. A system of land-tenure, where the government takes the place of landowners and collects the rent by means of tax gatherers. The farming is done by poor peasants, (ryots,) who find the capital, so far as there is any, and also do the work. The system exists in Turkey, Egypt, Persia, and other … [Read more...] about RYOT

Latin: In the civil law. Broken. A term applied to a will. Inst 2, 17, 3. … [Read more...] about RUPTUM

That which relates to the country, as rural servitudes. See Urban. … [Read more...] about RURAL

The circuit of an archdeacon's and rural dean's jurisdictions. Every rural deanery is divided Into parishes. See 1 Steph. Comm. 117. … [Read more...] about RURAL DEANERY

In English ecclesiastical law. Very ancient officers of the church; almost grown out of use, until about the middle of the present century, about which time they were generally revived, whose deaneries are as an ecclesiastical division of the diocese or archdeaconry. Tbey are deputies of the bishop, planted all round his diocese, to inspect the conduct of the parochial clergy, … [Read more...] about RURAL DEANS