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REGENT

Legal Term: REGENT
Definition: 1. A ruler, a governor. The term is usually applied to one who governs a regency, or rules in the place of another.

2. In the canon law, it signifies a master or professor of a college. Dict. du Dr. Call. h. t. 3. It sometimes means simply a ruler, director, or superintendent; as, in New York, where the board who have the superintendence of all the colleges, academies and schools, are called the regents of the University of the state of New York.



***All definitions are taken from the 1856 Edition of Bouviers Law Dictionary

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