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Associations or secret societies formed in Ireland, having for their object the dispossession of landlords by murder and fire-raising. Wharton. … [Read more...] about RIBBONMEN

A coppice or thicket. Cowell. … [Read more...] about RIFLETUM

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In old European law. A species of service and tribute rendered to their lords by agricultural tenants. Supposed by Spelman to be derived from the name of a certain portion of land, called, in England, a "rig" or "ridge," an elevated piece of ground, formed out of several furrows. Burril. … [Read more...] about RIGA

the name of a bill in chancery used to renew an original bill which for some reason has become inoperative. Vide Bill of Revivor. … [Read more...] about REVIVOR