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  • EXECUTORY
    That which is yet to be executed or performed; that which remains to be carried into operation or effect; incomplete ; depending upon a future performance or event. The opposite of executed. -Executory consideration. A consideration which is to be performed after the contract for which it is a consideration More...
  • EXECUTRESS
    A female executor. Hardr. 165, 473. See EXECUTRIX.
  • EXECUTRIX
    A woman who has been appointed by will to execute such will or testament.
  • EXECUTRY
    In Scotch law. The movable estate of a person dying, which goes to his nearest of kin. So called as falling under the distribution of an executor. Belt Exempla illustrant non restriagunt legem. Co. Litt 240. Examples illustrate, but do not restrain, the law.
  • EXEMPLARY DAMAGES
    See DAMAGES.
  • EXEMPLI GRATIA
    For the purpose of example, or for instance. Often, abbreviated "ex. gr." or "e. g."
  • EXEMPLIFICATION
    An official transcript of a document from public records, made in form to be used as evidence, and authenticated as a true copy.
  • EXEMPLIFICATIONE
    A writ granted for the exemplification or transcript of an original record. Reg. Orig. 290.
  • EXEMPLUM
    In the civil law. Copy; a written authorized copy. This word is also used in the modern sense of "example,"-ad exemplum constituti singularee non trahi, exceptional things must not be taken for examples. Calvin.
  • EXEMPT
    v. To relieve, excuse, or set free from a duty or service imposed upon the general class to which the individual exempted belongs; as to exempt from militia service. See 1 St at Large, 272. To relieve certain classes of property from liability to sale on execution.
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