REGRESS

is used principally in the phrase "free entry, egress, and regress" but it is also used to signify the re-entry of a person who has been disseised of land. Returning; going back opposed to ingress. This means to return. Used frequently in leases to express the right of the lessee to enter, go upon, and return from the lands in question. Ingress is to enter, egress is to leave, … [Read more...] about REGRESS

crim. law. Every practice or device, by act, conspiracy, words, or news, to enhance the price of victuals or other merchandise, is so denominated. 3 Inst. 196; 1 Russ. on Cr. 169. 2. In the Roman law, persons who monopolized grain, and other produce of the earth, were called dardanarii, and were variously punished. … [Read more...] about REGRATING

In the English law of real property, when, after a person has made a grant, the property granted comes back to him, (c. p., by escheat or forfeiture,) and he grants it again, he is said to regrant it. The phrase is chiefly used in the law of copyholds. … [Read more...] about REGRANT

The ecclesiastical kingdom. 2 Hale, P. C. 324. Regnum non est diviaibile. Co. Litt. 165. The kingdom is not divisible. … [Read more...] about REGNUM ECCLESIASTICUM

A name given to the people of Surrey and Sussex, and on the sea-coasts of Hampshire. Blount … [Read more...] about REGNI POPULI