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  • 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.
  • REBUT
    In pleading and evidence. To rebut is to defeat or take away the effect ot something. Thus, when a plaintiff in an action produces evidence which raises a presumption of the defendant's liability, and the defendant adduces evidence which shows that the presumption is ill-founded, he Is said to "rebut More...
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