R the eighteenth letter of the English alphabet is a vocal consonant It is sometimes called a semivowel and a liquid See Guide to Pronunciation sectsect 178 179 and 250 254...
research and development used mostly to refer to the division of a corporation responsible for performing research and developing new products a commonly used abbreviation...
r.o.r. released on recognizance ...
R.S. revised statutes ...
R.S.C., Rules of the Supreme Court. See that title and RULES OF COURT....
Relating, the word 'relating' in Article 363, 'to bring into relation' or 'establish relation between'. In other words the provision of the Constitution in question must be linked with the merger Agree-ments or Covenants directly and immediately. It must have no independent existence. That is not the position under Article 366(22). It is an indepen-dent provision. It has nothing to do with the Agreements and Covenants, H.H. Maharajadhiraja Madhav Rao Jivaji Rao Scindia Bahadur of Gwalior v. Union of India, AIR 1971 SC 530 (631): (1971) 1 SCC 85: (1971) 3 SCR 9....
Relating to, words 'relating to' words of com-prehensiveness which might both have a direct as well as an indirect significance, depending on the context. They are not words of restrictive context, State of Wakf Board v. Abdul Azeez Sahib, AIR 1968 Mad 79.The words 'relating to' are of wide import and can take in their sweep any suit in which the grievance is made that the defendant is threatening to illegally recover possession from the plaintiff-licensee. Suits for protecting such possession of immovable property against the alleged illegal attempts on the part of the dependant to forcibly recover such possession from the plaintiff, can clearly get covered by the wide sweep of the words 'relating to recovery of possession' as employed by s. 41(1), Manusukhlal Dhanraj Jain v. Eknath Vithal Ogale, AIR 1995 SC 1102 (1105): (1995) 2 SCC 665. [Presidency Small Cause Courts Act (15 of 1882), s. 41(1)]...
retribution : punishment imposed (as on a convicted criminal) for purposes of repayment or revenge for the wrong committed ...
The act of retributing repayment...
retributive : of, relating to, or marked by retribution [ justice] re·trib·u·tive·ly adv ...