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rap sheet.Slang. A person’s criminal record. [Blacks Law 8th]

rapprochement (ra-prosh-mahn). The establishment or restoration of cordial relations between two or more nations. — Also spelled rapprochment. [Blacks Law 8th]

rapporteur (ra-por-tuuror -t<<schwa>>r), n.[French] An official who makes a report of committee proceedings for a larger body (esp. a legislature). [Blacks Law 8th]

rapport à succession (ra-por ah sook-ses-syawn), n.[French “return to succession”] Civil law. The restoration to an estate of property that an heir received in advance from the decedent, so that an even distribution may be made among all the heirs. Cf. HOTCHPOT. [Blacks Law 8th]

rapine (rap-in).1. Forcible seizure and carrying off of another’s property; pillage or plunder. 2.Archaic. Rape. [Blacks Law 8th]

rapina (r<<schwa>>-pI-n<<schwa>>). [Latin “robbery, pillage”] Roman & civil law. The forcible taking of another’s movable property with the intent to appropriate it to one’s own use. “Rapina is the taking away of a thing by violent means. It gives rise to the praetorian actio vi bonorum raptorum ….” Rudolph Sohm, The Institutes: A Textbook of…

rape under age.See statutory rape under RAPE. [Blacks Law 8th]

rape shield statute.See SHIELD LAW(2). [Blacks Law 8th]

rape shield law.See SHIELD LAW(2). [Blacks Law 8th]

rape,n.1. At common law, unlawful sexual intercourse committed by a man with a woman not his wife through force and against her will. • The common-law crime of rape required at least a slight penetration of the penis into the vagina. Also at common law, a husband could not be convicted of raping his wife.…