法律英语|英文法律词典 R-8

RE应用商店优化NABLE ACT. This term signifies such an act as the law requires. When an act is unnecessary, a party will not be required to perform it as a reasonable act. 9 Price's Rep. 43; Yelv. 44; Platt. on Cov. 342, 157.

RE应用商店优化NABLE TIME. The English law, which in this respect, has been adopted by us, frequently requires things to be done within a reasonable time; but what a reasonable time is it does not define: quam long-um debet esse rationabile tempus, non definitur in lege, sed pendet ex discretione justiciariorum. Co. Litt, 50. This indefinite requisition is the source of much litigation. A bill of exchange, for example, must be presented within a reasonable time Chitty, Bills, 197-202. An abandonment must be made within a reasonable time after advice received of the loss. Marsh^{1. Insurance, 589.}

2. The commercial code of France fixes a time in both these cases, which varies in proportion to the distance. See Code de Com. L. 1, t. 8, s. 1, 10, art. 160; Id. L. 5, t. 10, s. 3, art. 373. Vide, generally, 6 East, 3; 7 East, 385; 3 B. P. 599; Bayley on Bills, 239; 7 Taunt^{2. 159, 397; 15 Pick. R. 92,; 3 Watts3. R. 339; 10 Wend. R. 304; 13 Wend. R. 549; 1 Hall's R. 56 6 Wend. R. 369; Id. 443; 1 Leigh's N. P. 435; Co. Litt. 56 b.}

REASSURANCE^{4. When an insurer is desirous of lessening5 his liability, he may procure6 some other insurer to insure him from loss, for the insurance he has made this is called reassurance.}

REBATE^{7, mer. law. Discount; the abatement8 of inferest in consequence of prompt payment. Merch. Dict. h. t.}

REBEL. A citizen or subject who unjustly and unlawfully takes up arms against the constituted authorities of the nation, to deprive them of the supreme^{11 power, either by resisting their lawful9 and constitutional orders, in some particular matter, or to impose on them conditions. Vattel, Droit des Gens, liv. 3, 328. In another sense it signifies a refusal to obey a superior, or the commands of a court. Vide Commission of Rebellion.}

REBELLION, crim. law. The taking up arms traitorously^{12 against the government and in another, and perhaps a more correct sense, rebellion signifies the forcible opposition13 and resistance to the laws and process lawfully10 issued.}

2. If the rebellion amount to treason, it is punished by the laws of the United States with death. If it be a mere^{14 resistance of process, it is generally punished by fine and imprisonment15. See Dalloz, Dict. h. t.; Code Penal16, 209.}