REEVE. An ancient English officer of justice, inferior in rank to an alderman.
He was a ministerial officer appointed to execute process, keep the king's peace, and put the laws in execution. He witnessed all Contracts and bargains, brought offenders to justice and delivered them to punishment, took bail for such as were to appear at the county court, and presided at the court or folcmote. He was also called gerefit.
There were several kinds of reeves: as, the shire-gerefa, shire-reeve or sheriff; the heh gerefa, or high-sheriff, tithing-reeve, burgh or borough-reeve.
A second ex amination of a thing. A witness may be re-examined, in a trial at law, in the discretion of the court ; and thie is seldom refused. In equity, it is a general rule that there can be no re-examination of a witness after he has once signed his name to the deposition and turned his back upon the commissioner or examiner, The reason of this is that he may be tampered with, or induced to retract or 'qualify what lae has sworn to. 1 Mer. Cla. 130.
The expense incurred by a bill's being. dishonored in a foreign country where it is made pa,yable and re turned to that country in which it was made or indorsed and there tak9n up. 11 East,
265 ; 2 Campb. 65.
2. The amount of this depends upon the course of exchange between the two countries through which the bill has been negotiated. Thus, re-exchange is the difference between the draft and re-draft.
The drawer of a bill is liable for the whole amount of re-exchange occasioned by the circuitous mode of returning the bill through the various countries in which it has been negotiated, as much as for that occasioned by a direct return. 1 Parsons, Notes & B. 650 ; 2 II. Blackst. 378 ; 11 East, 265 : 3 Bos. & P. 335. And see 10 La. 562; 24 Mo. 65 ; 8 Watts, Penn. 545 • 10 Metc. Mass. 375 ; Cranch, 500 • 4 Wash. C. C. 310 ; 2 How. 711, 764 ; 9 'Exch. 25 ; 6 Moore, Parl. Cas. 314.
3. In some states legislative enactments have been nlade which regulate damages on re-exchange. These damages are different in the several etates ; and this want of uni formity, if it does not create injustice, must be admitted to be a serious evil. See 2 Am. Jur. 79 ; 23 Penn. St. 137 ; 4 Jolans. N. y. 119 ; 12 id. 17 ; 4 Cal. 395 ; 3 Ind. 53 ; 9 id. 233 ; 8 Ohio, 292; MEASURE or DAMAGES.