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  • REASON
    A faculty of the mind by which it distinguishes truth from falsehood, good from evil, and which enables the possessor to deduce inferences from facts, or from propositions. Webster. Also an inducement motive, or ground for action, as in the phrase "reasons for an appeal." See Nelson v. Clongland, 15 More...
  • REASONABLE
    Agreeable to reason; Just; proper. Ordinary or usual. -Reasonable not. Such as may fairly, justly, and reasonably be required of a party.-Reasonable and probable cause. Such grounds as justify any one in suspecting another of a crime, and giving him in custody thereon. It is a defense to an action More...
  • REASSURANCE
    This is where an Insurer procures the whole or a part of the sum which he has insured (i. e., contracted to pay in case of loss, death, etc.) to be Insured again to him by another person. Sweet
  • REATTACHMENT
    A second attachment of him who was formerly attached, and dismissed the court without day, by the not coming of the justices, or some such casualty. Reg. Orig. 35.
  • REBATE
    Discount; reducing the Interest of money In consideration of prompt payment Also a deduction from a stipulated premium on a policy of insurance, in pursuance of an antecedent contract. Also a deduction or drawback from a stipulated payment, charge, or rate, (as, a rate for the transportation of freight by More...
  • REBEL
    The name of rebels is given to all subjects who unjustly take up arms against the ruler of the society, [or the lawful and constitutional government] whether their view be to deprive him of the supreme authority or to resist his lawful commands in some particular instance, and to impose More...
  • REBELLION
    Deliberate, organized resistance, by force and arms, to the laws or operations of the government committed by a subject See Hubbard v. Harnden Exp. Co., 10 R. I. 247 ; State v. McDonald, 4 Port. (Ala.) 455; Crashley v. Press Pub. Co., 74 App. Div. 118, 77 N. Y. Supp. More...
  • REBELLIOUS ASSEMBLY
    In English law. A gathering of twelve persons or more, intending, going about, or practicing unlawfully and of their own authority to thange any laws of the realm; or to destroy the Inclosure of any park or ground Inclosed, banks of fish-ponds, pools, conduits, eict to the intent the same More...
  • REBOUTER
    To repel or bar. The action of the heir by the warranty of his ancestor is called "to rebut or repel." 2 Co. Litt 247.
  • REBUS SIC STANTIBUS
    Lat At this point of affairs; in these circumstances.
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