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the laws of North Britain are rendered 

 very easy and regular. Of these there 

 are two kinds : the one general, fixed at 

 Edinburgh, under the direction of the 

 Lord Register ; and the other is kept in 

 the several shires, stewartries, and regali- 

 ties, the clerks of which are obliged to 

 transmit the registers of their respective 

 courts to the general register. No man 

 in Scotland can have a right to any estate, 

 but it must become registered within for- 

 ty days of his becoming seized thereof; 

 bv which means all secret conveyances 

 are cut off. 2. Parish registers are books 

 in which are registered the baptisms, 

 marriages, and burials of each parish. 



Among dissenters who admit of infant 

 baptism, each minister is supposed to 

 keep a register of the several children 

 baptized by him. But as these are fre- 

 quently lost, by the succession of new mi- 

 nisters to the same congregation ; or at 

 best do not give an account of the date of 

 the births, which may have happened ma- 

 ny weeks or months before baptism ; it is 

 now almost generally the custom among 

 dissenters of all denominations to register 

 the births of their children at the Library 

 in Red-cross Street, Cripplegate, for 

 which the charge is sixpence. This re- 

 gister is admitted in the courts of law.- 



REGISTER, is also used for the clerk or 

 keeper of a register. Of these we have 

 several, denominated from the registers 

 they keej) ; as Register of the High Court 

 of Delegates ; Register of the Arches 

 Court of Canterbury ; Register of the 

 Court of Admiralty; Register of the Pre- 

 rogative Court ; Register of the Garter, 

 Sec. 



REGISTER ships, in commerce, are ves- 

 sels which obtain a commission either 

 from the King of Spain, or the Council of 

 the Indies, to traffic in the ports of the 

 Spanish West Indies ; which are thus 

 called from their being registered before 

 they set sail from Cadi'/,, for Buenos 

 Ayres. Each of these permissions costs 

 30.000 pieces of eight, and by the tenor 

 of the cedula, or permit, they are not to 

 exceed 300 tons ; but there is such a good 

 understanding between the merchants, 

 and the Council of the Indies, that ships of 

 5 or 600 tons frequently pass unnoted; and 

 though the quantity and quality of the 

 merchandizes on board are always ex- 

 pressed, yet, by means of presents, the 

 officers, both in Spain and the Indies, al- 

 low them to load and unload vastly more 

 than the permission expresses. 



REGISTER, in printing, is disposing 

 the forms on the press, so as that the 



lines and pages printed on one side of the 

 sheet full exactly on those of the other. 



REGISTER, among letter founders, is 

 one of the inner parts the mould in 

 which the printing types are cast. Its 

 use is to direct the joining the mould 

 justly together again, after opening it to 

 take out the new cast letter. 



REGISTERS, in chemistry, are holes, or 

 chinks with stopples, contrived in the 

 sides of furnaces, to regulate the fire; 

 that is, to make the heat more intense, or 

 remiss, by opening them to let in the air, 

 or keeping them close to exclude it. 



REGULAR, denotes any thing that is 

 agreeable to the rules of art : thus, we 

 say a regular building, verb, &c. A re- 

 gular figure, in geometry, is one whose 

 sides, and consequently angles, are equal; 

 and a regular figure with three or four 

 sides is commonly termed an equilateral 

 triangle, or square, as all others with 

 more sides are called regular polygons. 

 All regular figures may be inscribed in a 

 circle. A regular solid, called also a 

 platonic body, is that terminated on all 

 sides by regular and equal planes, and 

 whose solid angles are all equal. See 

 BODY 



REGULUS, in chemistry, an imperfect 

 metallic substance, that falls to the bot- 

 tom of the crucible, in the melting of 

 ores, or impure metallic substances. 



REGULUS, in astronomy, a star of the 

 first magnitude, in the constellation Leo, 

 called also, from its situation, CorLeonis, 

 or the lion's heart. Its longitude, ac- 

 cording to Mr Flamstead, is 25 31' 20", 

 and its latitude 26' 38" north. 



REHEARING, in chancery, is when 

 either of the parties thinks himself ag- 

 grieved by a decree, and petitions the 

 Chancellor for the cause to be heard 

 again. 



REIN deer. See CERVUS. 

 REJOINDER, in law, is the name of a 

 part of the pleadings where the defendant 

 answers to the plaintiff's replication. 



RELEASE, in law. Releases are dis- 

 tinguished into express releases in deed, 

 and those arising by operation of law ; 

 and are made of lands and tenements, 

 goods and chattels, or of actions real, 

 personal, and mixed. By a release of all 

 demands, all actions real, personal, and 

 mi:;ed, and all actions of appeal, are ex- 

 tinct. The release of a right to lands is 

 now become the most usual form of con- 

 veyance. A lease is made for a year, 

 which puts the party in possession, and 

 then a release of all the right to the les- 

 see and his heirs is made the next day; 



