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Rh is understood to refer to the instrument whereby a ship was originally transferred from the builder to the owner, or first purchaser. 3 Kent, Comm. 133.

9. In the law of negotiable instruments. A promissory obligation for the payment of money.

10. In maritime law. The term is applied to contracts of various sorts, but chiefly to bills of hiding (see supra) and to bills of adventure (see infra.)

11. In revenue law and procedure, the term is given to various documents filed in or issuing from a custom house, principally of the sorts described below.

12. In criminal law, a bill of indictment, see infra.

13. In common-law practice. An itemized statement or specification of particular details, especially items of cost or charge.