If the jurors, after having been out a reasonable time, do not all agree upon a verdict, the justice may discharge them, and issue a new venire, unless the parties consent to submit the cause to the justice.
In some states, a reasonable time is allowed a purchaser to get his deed recorded before he loses his right of possession by the earlier recording of another's deed.
A carrier must deliver freight in a reasonable time; but he is not liable for loss by the freezing of a river or canal during his voyage, if he has used due diligence.
He recovered in a reasonable time, and lived to a very advanced age.
She had somehow discovered that this article of food was the real cause of her disease, and that entire abstemiousness in this particular, would, in a reasonable time, remove it.
The man recovered in a reasonable time, and is, I believe, alive to this day.
It is not a new sin to put off repentance until tomorrow or next week in such a case; for the commandment of repentance, being affirmative, does not bind for each instant, but only for a reasonable time.
A formal promise to marry (Canon 1017) imposes the duty of marriage within a reasonable time (i.
Foreigners who are in one's territory should be given an opportunity to settle their affairs and leave the country within a reasonable time.
Accordingly the bill must be presented for acceptance within a reasonable time.
The drawer of a cheque is not absolutely discharged by the holder's omission to present it for payment within a reasonable time.
When a bill is payable on demand it must be presented for payment within a reasonable time.
If you are not back in a reasonable time, I'll after you.
Suppose you should find her now--within a reasonable time.
We can afford to take a reasonable time, to be dignified about it.
If, however, after the disaster the vessel might have been repaired at a reasonable expense and in a reasonable time, but the owner chooses to sell, the two months' pay is due.
If no pilot is at hand, he must make signals, and wait a reasonable time.
Even in a clear case of desertion, if the party repents, and seeks to return to his duty within a reasonable time, he is entitled to be received on board again, unless his previous conduct had been such as would justify his discharge.
They express confidence that if the advance asked for should be made the Government would be reimbursed the same within a reasonable time.
A petition was then presented from Randall requesting that he might be indulged with a reasonable time to make his defence, and with counsel.
It appears to me, then, that it was the duty of the person who received the paper, to wait a reasonable time; and the duty of the nation to make actual payment as speedily as possible.
For this reason, I have resolved, after waiting a reasonable time for an answer to my Memorial, if none should be given, or the first be persisted in, to return with all speed to America.
Most usually they give way, and are gradually broken down by the pressure of the child's head; but if they prove too strong, after waiting a reasonable time, they must be cut through.
If no simpler means succeed in a reasonable time, it is the general custom to bleed freely from the arm, and there is no question but this frequently removes the difficulty at once, whatever objections may be made to the practice.
If after waiting a reasonable time, there be no prospect of the labor terminating naturally, and the female is exhausted, it must be terminated artificially, as if it were a case of deformed pelvis.
Another: "The friends of the Southern movement in the other States look to the action of South Carolina; and he would make the issue in a reasonable time, and the only way to do so is by secession.
It was and still is our determination to march with our regiment, and to do the duty of officers until the legislature should have a reasonable time to appoint others, but no longer.
The question," said Wallace, "how much it is necessary to allow for a reasonable time, depends upon the nature of the subject that the offer relates to.
If two persons were writing at a table, and one of them were to offer the other six wafers in exchange for a steel pen, five minutes, or even one minute, might be a reasonable time to allow him for decision.
He concluded by asking Wallace if he did not think that an hour was a reasonable time.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reasonable time" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
