REBATE (Fr.

See also:

• RABAT (Ribat)

rabat, from rabattre, to

See also:

• BEAT (a word common in various forms to the Teutonic languages; it is connected with the similar Romanic words derived from the Late Lat. battere)

beat back)  , a term used in commerce, banking, &c . In banking, a rebate is an allowance made to a drawee taking up a bill of exchange before it is due . This allowance is the interest on the unexpired period of the bill, and in practice may be either a fixed or arbitrary rate; more often it is z °/o, about the usual bank deposit rate . In commerce, rebate is sometimes used to mean a discount allowed for prompt payment; it is often equivalent to drawback, i.e. the repayment of part of the duty on imported goods when such goods are subsequently exported in their original or in another form . By the Customs Consolidation Act, 1853, a rebate or deduction is allowed at the custom-house from the fixed duties on certain kinds of goods, on account of damage or loss sustained in warehouses . i See Prisse d'Avennes, L'Art arabe d'apres les monuments du Caire du vii' au xviiie siecle (Paris, 1877) . The unnumbered plates are to be identified by the list given at the beginning of the work . ' For the illustration, see Jean Cledat, " Le monastere et la necropole de Baouit," Mein. de l'Inst. fr. d'archeol. orient. du Caire, tome xii., 1904 . Chapelle, xviii. pl. lxiv . (2) . Descriptive text, p . 92 .

See also

article " Baouit " by the same author, descriptive of the paintings in F . Cabrol's Dict. d'arch. chret. et de liturgie (Paris, 1907), Ease. xii . B., p .