heese forbidden under Edward VI;
of coal forbidden;
final definition of;
in early Greece by trusts;
especially obnoxious in early England.
Religion, religious liberty guaranteed first under Cromwell, except as
to papists;
of Jesus Christ furthered.
Religious tests;
rights under American Constitution;
as to instruction in public schools;
as to taxation.
Rents in staple towns must be reasonable.
Reporters, newspaper, privilege of.
Representative government, and the right to law;
origin of;
peculiar to Anglo-Saxon people;
origin of, in England;
in America;
distrust of.
Republican form of government.
Reputation, right to.
Restraint of trade (_see Forestalling, Trusts, Monopoly_),
general, discussion chapter IX, doctrine of foreshadowed in Magna
Charta;
origin of doctrine;
instance of;
still our common law;
expression first used in 1436;
double damages for, recognized in statute of York;
an element of "Trusts";
under the Sherman act;
the Massachusetts statute.
Retail (_see Wholesale_).
Retailing by countrymen forbidden in towns by statute of Philip.
Retainers, feudal, laws against.
Revenue bills (_see also Money Bills_);
must originate in lower house, A.D. 1407.
Revenue officers may not meddle with the goods of travellers under pain
of quadruple damages and imprisonment.
Revisions, need of authorized.
Rex _vs._ Crispe, monopoly case.
Richard I imposes taxes to pay for crusade.
Richard II, legislation of;
all his laws declared to be permanent;
their repeal declared to be high treason;
the following year they were all repealed under Henry IV.
Right to privacy (_see Privacy_).
Rights, indefinite.
Riotous assemblies, laws against.
Riots (_see Injunctions_), law against under Henry V;
suppression of by common-law courts in chancery;
use of executive power to suppress, dates from 1414;
use of chancery power permitted;
law of 1495;
punishment of by Star Chamber;
act of Edward VI;
counties liable for damages in 1285;
European law of;
Star Chamber's authority over;
duty of by-standers.
Rivers, pollution of, regulated as early as Henry VIII.
Roads (_see Internal Improvements_).
Roman law, distinct in two great principles from English law;
individual liberty and law-making by the sovereign;
an order to the subject;
protest of barons against, A.D. 1383;
forbidden to be cited in the courts.
Rome, Church of (_see Chur