Category: R

The right of one party over others to have chance at purchase before any others.

See first publication.

L. Fr. Nothing. It appears in a few law French phrases.

In old English law. After-county; i. e., after the end of the county court. A time and place appointed by the sheriff for tlie receipt of the king’s money after the end of his county, or county court. Cowell.

A strategy used in marketing where the concentration of efforts is based on a narrow area in order to achieve the objective.

A coppice or thicket Cowell.

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. Burrill.

A term of the stock-exchange, denoting the practice of inflating the price of given stocks, or enhancing their quoted value, by a system of pretended purchases, designed to give the air of an unusual demand for such stocks. See L. R. 13 Eq. 447.

comprehended four gavels, and every gavel had four rliandirs, and four houses or tene- ments constituted every rhandir. Tayl. Ilist. Gav. 09.

a test that is given to an accused person to see if he knew right from wrong when he committed the crime.