REI INTERVENTUS. When a party is imperfectly bound in an obligation, he may in general, annul1 such imperfect obligation; but when he has permitted the opposite party to act as if his obligation or agreement were complete, such things have intervened as to deprive him of the right to rescind2 such obligation; these circumstances are the rei interventus. Bell's Com. 328, 329, 5th ed.; Burt. Man. P. R. 128.
RE-INSURANCE, mar3. contr. An insurance made by a former insurer, his executors, administrators4, or assigns, to protect himself and his estate from a risk to which they were liable by the first insurance.
2. It differs from a double insurance in this, that in the latter cases, the insured makes two insurances on the same risk and the same interest.
3. The insurer on a re-insurance is answerable only to the party whom he has insured, and not to the original insured, who can have no remedy against him in case of loss, even though the original insurer become insolvent5, because there is no privity of contract between them and the original insured. 3 Kent, Com. 227; Park. on Ins. c. 15, p. 276; Marsh6. Ins. B. 1, c. 4, s. 4
REISSUABLE NOTES. Bank notes, which after having been once paid, may again be put into circulation, are so called.
2. They cannot properly be called valuable securities, while in the hands of the maker7; but in an indictment8, may properly be called goods and chattels9. Ry. Mood. C. C. 218; vide 5 Mason's R. 537; 2 Russ. on Cr. 147. And such notes would fall within the description of promissory notes. 2 Leach10, 1090, 1093; Russ. Ry. 232. Vide Bank note; Note; Promissory note.
REJOINDER, pleadings. The name of the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication.
2. The general requisites11 of a rejoinder are, 1. It must be triable. 2. It must not be double, nor will several rejoinders be allowed to the same declaration. 3. It must be certain. 4. It must be direct and positive, and not merely by way of recital12 or argumentative. 5. it must not be repugnant or insensible. 6. It must be conformable to, and not depart from the plea. Co. Litt. 304; 6 Com. Dig. 185 Archb. Civ. Pl. 278; U. S. Dig, Pleading, XIII.
