Dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

REDHIBITORIA ACTIO. REGGULA. 9is5
for these Praetoriae actiones, as the person who Aediles, hle ought to have been acquainted w'th;
lhad sustained loss would either have an actio or for aly defect in the qualities of the thing which
locati and conducti, in cases where payment had the seller had warranted. The seller was answerbeen agreed on, or an actio depositi, where no pay- able even if he was not aware of the defects.
ment had been agreed on; but Pomponius suggests "Redhibere," says Ulpian,' is so to act that the
that the reason was this: in a matter of Locatumn seller shall have back what he had, and because
and Conductum, the receiver was only answerable this is done by restoration, for that reason it is
for loss in case he was guilty of Culpa; and in a called' Redhibitio,' which is as much as to say
matter of Depositum, only in case he xxYas guilty of' Redditio.'"
Dolus Malus; but the receiver was liable to these The effect of the redhibitio was to rescind the
Praetoriae actiones, if the thing was lost or injured bargain and to put both parties in the salne coneven without any Culpa on his part, and he was dition, as if the sale had never taken place. The
only excused in case of Damnunll fatale, such as time allowed for prosecuting the actio redhibitoria
shipwreck, piracy, and so forth. was " sex menses utiles," when a cautio had been
these praetorian actions in factum were either given, which were reckoned from the day of sale
" rei persecutoriae" for the recovery of the thing, or fiom the time when any statement or promise
or "poenales " for damages. The former action had been made relating to the matter (dictumt
might be maintained against the heres of the.promissumVee, the words of the Edict). If there
Nauta, Caupo, or Stabularius. The Exercitor of a was no cautio, the time allowed was two months.
ship was answerable for any loss or damage caused (Dig. 21. tit. 1.) [G. L.]
to property, which he hbad received in the legal REDIMI'CULUM (lca06?mp), a fillet attached
sense of this term, by any person in his employ- to the Calantica, Diadema, Mitra, or other headment. The actio against him was in duplunm. The dress at the occiput, and passed over the shoulders,
liability on the part of Caupones and Stabularii so as to hanlg on each side over the breast. (Virg.
was the same: a cauLpo for instance was answer- Aen. ix. 616; Ovid. _Met. x. 265.) Redimicula
able for loss or damage to the goods of any traveller, were properly female ornaments (Festus, s. v.;
if caused by those who were dwelling or employed Ovid. Epist. ix. 71; Juv. ii. 70; Prudent. Psychoae.
in the causpona, but not if caused by a mere tra- 448); and in the statues of Venus they were imiveller. The actio for damages could not be main- tated in gold. (Ovid. Fast. iv. 135-137.) [J. Y.]
tained against the heres. (Dig. 4. tit. 9; Peckii REGIA LEX. [LEx REGIA.]
In Titt. Dig(. et Cod. Ad rem nauticam perti- REGIFU'GIUM or FUGA'LIA, the king's
nentes Commentarii, &c. Amstel. 1668.) flight, a ifestival which was celebrated by the Romans
As to the passages in the Digest (4. tit. 9. s. 1. every year on the 24th of February, and according
~ 1, nd 47. tit. 5. ~ 6) see Vangerow, Peandlekten, to Verrius (ap. Feet. s. s. v. Reeifgie7n) and Ovid
&c. iii. p. 436. (Fast. ii. 685, &c.) in commemoration of the flight
There is a title in the Digest (4. tit. 8), De Re- of king Tarquinius Superbus from Rome. The
ceptis, qui arbifiium receperunt ut sententiam day is marked in the Fasti as nefastus. In some
dicant. When parties who had a matter to liti- ancient calendaria the 24th of May is likewise
gate, had agreed to refer it to an arbitrator, which called Regifugium, and in others it is described as
reference was called Compromissum, and a person Q. Rex. C. F., that is, " Quando Rex comitiavit,
had accepted the office of arbitrator (arb'its'iza re- fas," or " Quando Rex comitio fugit." Several
ceperit), the praetor would compel him to pro- ancient as well as modern writers have denied that
nounce a sentence, unless he had some legal excuse. either of these days had anything to do with the
The Praetor could compel a person of any rank, as flight of king Tarquinius (Cincius, ap. Fest. 1. c.),
a Conlsularis for instance, to pronounce a sentence and are of opinion that these two days derived
after taking upon him the office of arbitrator; but their name from the symbolical flight of the Rex
he could not compel a person who held a Magis- Sacrorum from the comitium; for this king-priest
tratus or Potestas, as a Consul or Praetor, for he was generally not allowed to appear in the comihad no Imperium over them. The parties were tiunm, which was destined for the transaction of
bound to submit to the award of the arbitrator; political matters in which he could not take part.
and if either party refused to abide by it, the Bet on certain days in the year, and certainly on
other had against him a poenae petitio, if a poena the two days mentioned above, he had to go to the
was agreed on in the compromissum; and if there comitium for the purpose of offering certain sacriwas no poena in the compromissum, he had an fices, and immediately after he had performed his
Incerti actio. (Dig. 4. tit. 8.) [G. L.] functions there, lie hastily fled from it; and this
RECI'NIUM. [RICINIUM.] symbolical flight is said to have been called RegiRECISSO'RIA ACTIO. [INTExRCESSIO.] fLgium. (Fest. I. c.; Plut. Qiamest. Romn. 63; Ovid.
RECUPERATO'RES. [JUDsex.] Fast. v. 727.) [L. S.]
REDEMPTOR, the general name for a con- RIEGULA (tKamvy), the ruler used by scribes
tractor, who undertook the building and repairing for drawing riglht lines with pen and ink (Brunck,
of public works, private houses, &c., and in fact of Anal. iii. 69, 8 7); also the rule used by carpenters,
any kind of work. (Festus, s. v.; Hor. Caresm. iii. masons, and other artificers, either for drawing
1. 35, Ep. ii. 2 72; Cic. de Div. ii. 21.) The straight lines or making plane surfaces. (Aristoph.
farmers of the public taxes were also called Re- Ran. 798; Vitruv. vii. 3. ~ 5.) That it was
de7iptores. (Dig. 19. tit. 2. s. 60. ~ 8.) marked with equal divisions, like our carpenter's
REDHIBITO'RIA ACTIO was an actio rules, is manifest from the representations of it
which a buyer had against a seller for rescinding among the "cInstrumen ta filbrorum tignariorum,"
the bargain of sale on account of any non-apparent in the woodcuts at pp. 287, 806. The substance,
defect at the time of the purchase in the thing pur- with which the lines were made, was raddle or
chased, which the buyer was not acquainted with, red ochre (gLATosS Brunck, Aszal. i. 221; PoIeVci
and wlhich according to the Edict of the Curule ucay''e, Eurip.. He1 e.. 925.) [LINEA.] The