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Rebate
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RebateMerchant law. Discount; the abatement of inferest in consequence of prompt payment.
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Merchant
One whose business it is to buy and sell merchandise; this applies to all persons who habitually trade in merchandise.
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Discount
Practice. A set off, or defalcation in an action.
Abatement
1) Chancery practice. Is a suspension of all proceedings in a suit, from the want of proper parties capable of proceeding therein. 2) Merchant law. By this term is understood the deduction sometimes made at the custom-house from the duties chargeable upon goods when they are damaged.
Payment
1) Contracts. That which is given to execute what has been promised; or it is the fulfilment of a promise. Solvere dicimus cum quis fecit, quod facere promisit. But though this is the general acceptation of the word, yet by payment is understood, every way by which the creditor is satisfied or ought to be, and the debtor, liberated for example, an accord and satisfaction will operate as a payment. 2) Pleadings. The name of a plea by which the defendant alleges that he has paid the debt claimed in the declaration; this plea must conclude to the country.
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Reasonable 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.
Reasonable doubt
An accused person is entitled to acquittal if, in the minds of the jury, his or her guilt has not been proved beyond a "reasonable doubt;" that state of minds of jurors in which they cannot say they feel an abiding conviction as to the truth of the charge.
Reasonable person
A phrase used to denote a hypothetical person who exercises qualities of attention, knowledge; intelligence, and judgment that society requires of its members for the protection of their own interest and the interests of others. Thus, the test of negligence is based on either a failure to do something that a reasonable person, guided by considerations that ordinarily regulate conduct, would do, or on the doing of something that a reasonable and prudent (wise) person would not do.
Reasonable time
The English law, which in this respect, has been adopted by us, frequently requires things to be done within a reasonable time.
Reassurance
When an insurer is desirous of lessening his liability, he may procure some other insurer to insure him from loss, for the insurance he has made this is called reassurance.
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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 power, either by resisting their lawful and constitutional orders, in some particular matter, or to impose on them conditions.
Rebellion
Criminal law. The taking up arms traitorously against the government and in another, and perhaps a more correct sense, rebellion signifies the forcible opposition and resistance to the laws and process lawfully issued.
Rebellion, commission of
A commission of rebellion is the name of a writ issuing out of chancery to compel the defendant to appear.
Rebouter
To repel or bar. The action of the heir by the warranty of his ancestor, is called to rebut or repel.
Rebut
To rebut. To contradict; to do away as, every homicide is presumed to be murder, unless the contrary appears from evidence which proves the death; and this presumption it lies on the defendant to rebut by showing that it was justifiable or excusable
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Merchant
One whose business it is to buy and sell merchandise; this applies to all persons who habitually trade in merchandise.
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Discount
Practice. A set off, or defalcation in an action.
Abatement
1) Chancery practice. Is a suspension of all proceedings in a suit, from the want of proper parties capable of proceeding therein. 2) Merchant law. By this term is understood the deduction sometimes made at the custom-house from the duties chargeable upon goods when they are damaged.
Payment
1) Contracts. That which is given to execute what has been promised; or it is the fulfilment of a promise. Solvere dicimus cum quis fecit, quod facere promisit. But though this is the general acceptation of the word, yet by payment is understood, every way by which the creditor is satisfied or ought to be, and the debtor, liberated for example, an accord and satisfaction will operate as a payment. 2) Pleadings. The name of a plea by which the defendant alleges that he has paid the debt claimed in the declaration; this plea must conclude to the country.
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Reasonable 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.
Reasonable doubt
An accused person is entitled to acquittal if, in the minds of the jury, his or her guilt has not been proved beyond a "reasonable doubt;" that state of minds of jurors in which they cannot say they feel an abiding conviction as to the truth of the charge.
Reasonable person
A phrase used to denote a hypothetical person who exercises qualities of attention, knowledge; intelligence, and judgment that society requires of its members for the protection of their own interest and the interests of others. Thus, the test of negligence is based on either a failure to do something that a reasonable person, guided by considerations that ordinarily regulate conduct, would do, or on the doing of something that a reasonable and prudent (wise) person would not do.
Reasonable time
The English law, which in this respect, has been adopted by us, frequently requires things to be done within a reasonable time.
Reassurance
When an insurer is desirous of lessening his liability, he may procure some other insurer to insure him from loss, for the insurance he has made this is called reassurance.
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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 power, either by resisting their lawful and constitutional orders, in some particular matter, or to impose on them conditions.
Rebellion
Criminal law. The taking up arms traitorously against the government and in another, and perhaps a more correct sense, rebellion signifies the forcible opposition and resistance to the laws and process lawfully issued.
Rebellion, commission of
A commission of rebellion is the name of a writ issuing out of chancery to compel the defendant to appear.
Rebouter
To repel or bar. The action of the heir by the warranty of his ancestor, is called to rebut or repel.
Rebut
To rebut. To contradict; to do away as, every homicide is presumed to be murder, unless the contrary appears from evidence which proves the death; and this presumption it lies on the defendant to rebut by showing that it was justifiable or excusable
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