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  • EXCOMMUNICATO DELIBERANDO
    A writ to the sheriff for delivery of an excommunicated person out of prison, upon certificate from the ordinary of his conformity to the ecclesiastical jurisdiction. Fitzh. Nat Brev. 63. Excommunicato interdieltur omnia aotus legitlmus, ita quod agere non potest, noo aliquem eonvenire, licet ipse ah allis possit conveniri. Co. More...
  • EXCOMMUNICATO RECAPIENDO
    A writ commanding that persons excommunicated, who for their obstinacy had been committed to prison, but were unlawfully set free before they had given caution to obey the authority of the church, should be sought after, retaken, and imprisoned again. Reg;, Orig. 67.
  • EXCULPATION, LETTERS OF
    In Scotch law. A warrant granted at the suit of a prisoner for citing witnesses in his own defense.
  • EXCUSABLE
    Admitting of excuse or palliation. As used in the law, this word implies that the act or omission spoken of is on its face unlawful, wrong, or liable to entail loss or disadvantage on the person charge- able, but that the circumstances attending it were such as to constitute a More...
  • EXCUSATIO
    In the civil law. An excuse or reason which exempts from some duty or obligation.
  • EXCUSATOR
    In English law. An excuser. In old German law. A defendant; he who utterly denies the plaintiff's claim. Du Cange. Excusatur quis quod elameum non op-posuerit, ut si to to tempore litigii fnit ultra mare quacunque occasione. Co. Litt. 260. He is excused who does not bring his claim, if, More...
  • EXCUSE
    A reason alleged for doing or not doing a thing. Worcester. A matter alleged as a reason for relief or exemption from some duty or obligation.
  • EXCUSS
    To seize and detain by law.
  • EXCUSSIO
    In the civil law. A diligent prosecution of a remedy against a debtor; the exhausting of a remedy against a principal debtor, before resorting to his sureties. Translated "discussion," (q. v.) In old English law. Rescue or rescous. Spelman.
  • EXEAT
    A permission which a bishop grants to a priest to go out of his diocese; also leave to go out generally. -No exeat. A writ which forbids the person to whom it is addressed to leave the country, the state, or the jurisdiction of the court; available in some cases More...
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