Reve Mote

In Saxon law. The court of the reve, reeve, or shire reeve. 1 Reeve, Hist. Eng. Law, 6. which ha claims to be owner. It applies to immovables as well as movables; to corporeal or incorporeal things. Merlin, Repert. Eevendication, in another sense, corresponds very nearly to the "stoppage in transitu" of the common law. It is used in that sense in Code de Commerce, art. 577. Revendication, says that article, can take place only when the goods sold are on the way to their place of destination, whether by land or water, and before they have been received into the warehouse of the insolvent (failli) or that of his factor or agent authorized to sell them on account of the insolvent. See Dig. 14. 4. 15; Id. 18. 1. 19. 53; Id. 19. 1. 11.