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. 9 Price's Rep. 43; Yelv. 44; Platt. on Cov. 342, 157.
REASONABLE 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. Marsh1. 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 Taunt2. 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.
REASSURANCE4. 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.
REBATE7, 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 supreme11 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 traitorously12 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 mere14 resistance of process, it is generally punished by fine and imprisonment15. See Dalloz, Dict. h. t.; Code Penal16, 209.
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