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which unavoidably leads to the most ab- 

 struse reasoning. For further informa- 

 tion, see Jacob's Law Diet, by Tomlins, 

 title Remainder ; Fearne's Essay on Re- 

 mainders, and other works there cited. 



REMEMBRANCERS, anciently called 

 clerks of the remembrance, certain offi- 

 cers in !.he Exchequer, whereof three are 

 distinguished by the names of the King's 

 Remembrancer, the Lord Treasurer's Re- 

 membrancer, and the Remembrancer of 

 the First Fruits. The King's Remem- 

 brancer enters in his office ah recognizan- 

 ces taken before the Barons, tor any of 

 the King's debts, for appearances or ob- 

 servances of orders ; lie also takes all 

 bonds for the King's debts, Sec. and 

 makes out processes thereon. He like- 

 wise issues processes against the collec- 

 tors of the customs, excise, and others, 

 for their accounts ; and informations upon 

 penal statutes are entered and sued in his 

 office, where all proceedings in matters 

 upon English bills in the Exchequer 

 Chamber remain. His duty further is to 

 make out the bills of compositions upon 

 penal laws, to take the statement of debts; 

 and into his office are delivered all kinds 

 of indentures and other evidences, which 

 concern the assuring any lands to the 

 crown. He, every year, in crastino anima- 

 ntm, reads in open court the statute for 

 election of sheriff's ; and likewise openly 

 reads, in court, the oaths of all the offi- 

 cers, when they are admitted. 



The Lord Treasurer's remembrancer is 

 charged to make out process against all 

 sheriffs, escheators, receivers, and bai- 

 liffs, for their accounts. He also makes 

 out writs of fieri facias, and extent for 

 debts due to the King, either in the pipe 

 or with the auditors ; and process for all 

 such revenue as is due to the King, on 

 account of his tenures. He takes the ac- 

 count of sheriffs ; and also keeps a record, 

 by which it appears whether the sheriffs 

 or other accountants pay their profers 

 due at Easter and Michaelmas ; and at 

 the same time he makes a record, where- 

 by the sheriffs or other accountants keep 

 their prefixed days. There are likewise 

 brought into his office all the accounts of 

 customers, comptrollers and accoun- 

 tants, in order to make entry thereof on 

 record : also all estreats and amerce- 

 ments are certified here, &c. 



The Remembrancer of the First Fruits 

 takes all compositions and bonds for the 

 payment of first fruits and tenths, and 

 makes out process against such as do not 

 pay the same. 



REMITTER, a term in law, which im- 

 plies that a person having a right is dis- 

 possessed, and then by a bad title, dif- 

 ferent from his former one, gets posses- 

 sion He is then said to be remitted to 

 his former title, or to be in by remitter, 

 and cannot be turned out, although he 

 gained his last possession by a bad ti- 

 tle. 



RENDEZVOUS, in a military sense, 

 the place appointed by the general, where 

 all the troops that compose the army are 

 to meet at the time appointed, in case of 

 an alarm. This place should be fixed 

 upon according to the situation of the 

 ground, and the sort of troops quartered 

 in the village. In an open country it is 

 easy to fix upon a place of rendezvous, 

 because the general has whatever ground 

 he thinks necessary. In towns and vil- 

 lages, the largest streets, or market- 

 places, are very fit ; but let the place be 

 where it will, the troops must assemble 

 with ease, and be ready for the prompt 

 execution of orders. 



RENEALMIA, in botany, so named 

 from Paul Reneaume, physician at Blois, 

 a genus of the Monandria Monogynia 

 class and order. Natural order of Scita- 

 mineae. Cannae, Jussieu. Essential cha- 

 racter : calyx trifid ; nectary oblong ; 

 calyx one-leafed, bursting into two or 

 three irregular teeth ; anther sessile, op- 

 posite to the nectary; berry fleshy. 

 There is but one species, viz. R. exal- 

 tata, a tree about twenty feet in height, 

 having a straight trunk; leaves five or 

 six feet long, lanceolate, waved about 

 the edge : the raceme or bunch of flow- 

 ers springs from the trunk above the 

 root. It is a native of Surinam. 



RENT, is a certain profit issuing year- 

 ly out of lands and tenements corporeal. 

 There are at common law three kinds of 

 rents ; rent service, rent charge, and rent 

 seek. Rent service is where the tenant 

 holds his land of his lord by fealty and 

 certain rent ; or by homage, fealty, and 

 certain rent; or by other service and cer- 

 tain rent ; and it is called a rent service, 

 because it has some corporeal service in- 

 cident to it, which at least is fealty. Rent 

 charge is so called, because the land for 

 payment thereof is charged with a dis- 

 tress. Rent seek is where the land is 

 granted without any clause of distress for 

 the same. 



The time for payment of rent, and, 

 consequently, for a demand, is such u 

 convenient time before the sun-setting of 

 the last day, as will be sufficient to have 

 the money counted; but if the tenant 



