Category: R

The process where a corporation reorganises or restructures the business by means of cutting costs, rducing the work force or altering upper level management.

The stiffness, relatively, of a materials resistance to stretching, bending or other form of deformation under load.

Lat. Strictness of” law. Latch, 150. Distinguished from gratia curia:, favor of the court.

In medical jurisprudence. Cadaveric rigidity; a rigidity or stiffening of the muscular tissue and joints of the body, which sets in at a greater or less interval after death, but usually within a few hours, and which is one of the recognized tests of death.

A clique; an exclusive combination of persons for illegitimate or selfish pur- poses; as to control elections or political affairs, distribute offices, obtain contracts, con- trol the market or the stock-exchange, etc. Sehomberg v. Walker, 132 Cal. 224, 04 Pac. 290.

Isolating a project so it is protected from outside risks.

1. Business. The phrase used in describing products and lines of business that show the most profit. 2. Investments. The phrase used in signifying the time to take any profitsfrom securities by selling them. See Profit taking.

A scheme used in cabling networks where a cablesequentially connects all of the nodes and forms a loop that is closed.

A trick variously practiced. One mode is as follows, the cir- cumstances being taken from 2 East, P. C. 678: The prisoner, with accomplices, being with their victim, pretend to find a ring wrapped in paper, appearing to be a jeweler’s receipt for a “rich, brilliant diamond ring.” They offer to leave the ring with the victim if lie will deposit some money and his watch as a security. lie lays down his watch and money, is beckoned out of the room by one of the confederates, while the others take away his watch, etc. This is a larceny.

In criminal 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 spurious coin. See 2 Leach, 780; Bouvier.