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  • REHEARING
    In equity practice. A second hearing of a cause, for which a party who is dissatisfied with the decree entered on the former hearing may apply by petition. 3 Bl. Comm. 453. See Belmont v. Erie R. Co., 52 Barb. (N. Y.) 651; Emerson v. Da vies, 8 Fed. Cas. More...
  • REI INTERVENTUS
    Lat Things intervening ; that is, things done by one of the parties to a contract, in the faith of its validity, and with the assent of the other party, and which have so affected his situation that the other will not be allowed to repudiate his obligation, although originally More...
  • REIF
    A robbery. Cowell.
  • REIMBURSE
    The primary, meaning of this word is "to pay back." Philadelphia Trust, etc., Co. v. Audenreld, 83 Pa. 264. It means to make return or restoration of an equivalent for something paid, expended, or lost; to indemnify, or make whole.
  • REINSTATE
    To place again in a former state, condition, or office; to restore to a state or position from which the object or person had been removed See Collins v. U. S., 15 Ct CI. 22.
  • REINSURANCE
    A contract of reinsurance is one by which an Insurer procures a third person to Insure him against loss or liability by reason of such original Insurance. Civ. Code Cal. ? 2646. And see People v. Miller, 177 N. Y. 515, 70 N. E. 10; Iowa U Ins. Co. T. More...
  • REISSUABLE NOTES
    Bank-notes which, after having been once paid, may again be put into circulation.
  • REJOIN
    In pleading. To answer a plaintiff's replication in an action at law, by some matter of fact.
  • REJOINDER
    In common-law pleading. The second pleading on the part of the defendant, being his answer of matter of fact to the plaintiff's replication.
  • REJOINING GRATIS
    Rejoining voluntarily, or without being required to do so by a rule to rejoin. When a defendant waa under terms to rejoin gratis, he had to deliver a rejoinder, without putting the plaintiff to the necessity and expense of obtaining a rule to rejoin. 10 Mees. A W. 12; Lush, More...
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