REGULUS

In Chemistry. The old chemists designated several of the brittle or inferior metals by this term, when freed from impurities and obtained in their metallic state: it is thus that they speak of regulus of antimony, of bismuth, . REHABILITATION, in Foreign Criminal Law, is the reinstatement of a criminal in his personal rights which he has lost by a judicial sentence. Thus, in Scotland, a pardon from the king is said to rehabilitate a witne labouring under infamia juris. In France, persons condemned to imprisonment or compulsory labour may demand their rehabilitation five years after the expiration of their penalty: the demand is considered by the cour royale of the district, and pronounced upon by the king in his privy council. Various singular fr.rms were attached to the proce of reh a- 1016 [s. 1060]