Reason may be alleged when the law is insufficient.

Receditur a placitis, juris potius quam injuriæ et delicta maneant impunita.

We depart from the enactments of the law, rather than that injuries and transgressions should remain unpunished.

Recorda sunt vestigia vetustatis et veritatis.

Records are the vestiges of antiquity and truth.

Recurrendum est ad extraordinarium quando non valet ordinarium.

We must have recourse to an extraordinary thing, when an ordinary one does not avail us.

Reddere, nihil aliud est quam acceptum restituere: seu, reddere est quasi retro dare; et redditur dicitur a redeundo, quia retro it.

To render is nothing else than to restore what is received; or to render is, as it were, to give back; and it is called render from returning, because it goes back.

Regis curia et curia populi Anglicani sive parliamentum non ex scripto sed ex communi lege sunt.