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  • EX ASSENSU CURIAE
    By or with the consent of the court.
  • EX ASSENSU PATRIS
    By or with the consent of the father. A species of dower ad ostium ecclesiat, during the life of the father of the husband; the son, by the father's consent expressly given, endowing his wife with parcel of his father's lands. Abolished by 3 A 4 Wm. IV. c. 105, More...
  • EX ASSENSU SUO
    With his assent. Formal words in judgments for damages by default. Comb. 220.
  • EX BONIS
    Of the goods or property. A term of the civil law; distinguished from in bonis, as being descriptive of or applicable to property not in actual possession. Calvin.
  • EX CATHEDRA
    From the chair. Originally applied to the decisions of the popes from their cathedra, or chair. Hence, authoritative; having the weight of authority.
  • EX CAUSA
    L. Lat. By title.
  • EX CERTA SCIENTIA
    Of certain or sure knowledge. These words were anciently used in patents, and imported full knowledge of the subject-matter on the part of the king. See 1 Coke, 40b.
  • EX COLORE
    By color; under color of; under pretense, show, or protection of. Thus, ex colore officii, under color of office.
  • EX COMITATE
    Out of comity or courtesy.
  • EX COMMODATO
    From or out of loan. A term applied in the old law of England to a right of action arising out of a loan, (commodatum.) Glanv. lib. 10, c. 13; 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 166.
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