REUS

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  REUS, civil law. This word has two different meanings. 1. A party to a suit, 
  whether plaintiff or defendant; Reus est qui cum altero litem contestatem 
  habet, sive legit, sive cum eo adum est. 2. A party to a contract; reus 
  credendi is be to whom something is due, by whatever title it may be; reus 
  debendi is he who owes, for whatever cause. Poth. Pand. lib. 50, h.t.