Scottish law. The right which each of several cautioners (sureties) has to refuse to answer for more than his own share of the debt. To entitle the cautioner to this right, the other cautioners must be solvent, and there must be no words in the bond to exclude it. 1 Bell's Com. 347, 5th ed. … [Read more...]

See cooling-off rules. … [Read more...]

A code of marine laws established by the people of Rhodes, bears this name. Vide Law Rhodian. … [Read more...]

In English law. One of the six clerks in chancery who, in his turn for one year, kept the controlmeht books of all grants that passed the great seal. The six clerks were superseded by the clerks of records and writs. … [Read more...]

This, the earliest Code or collection of maritime laws, was formulated by the people of the island of Rhodes, who, by their commercial prosperity and the superiority of their navies, had acquired the sovereignty of the seas. Its date is very uncertain, but is supposed (by Kent and others) to be about 900 B. C. Nothing of it is now extant except the article on jettison, which … [Read more...]