ROARING. A disease among horses occasioned by the circumstance of the neck of the windpipe being too narrow for accelerated respiration1; the disorder2 is frequently produced by sore throat or other TOPical inflammation.
2. A horse affected3 with this malady4 is rendered less serviceable, and he is therefore unsound. 2 Stark5. R. 81; S. C. 3 Engl. Com. Law Rep. 255; 2 Camp. R. 523.
ROBBER. One who commits a robbery. One who feloniously and forcibly takes goods or money to any value from the person of another by violence or putting him, in fear.
ROBBERY, crimes. The felonious and forcible taking from the person of another, goods or money to any value, by violence or putting him in fear. 4 Bl. Com. 243 1 Bald. 102.
2. By taking from the person is meant not only the immediate6 taking from his person, but also from his presence when it is done with violence and against his consent. 1 Hale, P. C. 533; 2 Russ. Crimes, 61. The taking must be by violence or putting the owner in fear, but both these circumstances need not concur7, for if a man should be knocked down and then robbed while be is insensible, the offence is still a robbery. 4 Binn. R. 379. And if the party be put in fear by threats and then robbed, it is not necessary there should be any greater violence.
3. This offence differs from a larceny8 from the person in this, that in the latter, there is no violence, while in the former the crime is incomplete without an actual or constructive9 force. Id. Vide 2 Swift's Dig. 298. Prin. Pen. Law, ch. 22, 4, p. 285; and Carrying away; Invito Domino; Larceny; Taking.
ROD. A measure sixteen feet and a half long; a perch10.
ROGATORY, LETTERS. A kind of commission from a judge authorizing11 and requesting a judge of another jurisdiction12 to examine a witness. Vide Letters Rogatory.
