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  • EXEMPT
    n. One who is free from liabillty to military service; as distinguished from a detail, who is one belonging to the army, but detached or set apart for the time to some particular duty or service, and liable, at any time, to be recalled to his place in the ranks. More...
  • EXEMPTION
    Freedom from a general duty or service; immunity from a general burden, tax, or charge. Green v. State, 59 Md. 128, 43 Am. Rep. 542; Koenig v. Railroad Co., 3 Neb. 380; Long v. Converse, 91 U. S. 113, 23 L. Ed. 233. A privilege allowed by law to a More...
  • EXEMPTS
    Persons who are not bound by law, but excused from the performance of duties imposed upon others.
  • EXENNIUM
    In old English law. A gift; a new year's gift. Cowell.
  • EXEQUATUR
    Lat. Let it be executed. In French practice, this term is subscribed by judicial authority upon a transcript of a judgment from a foreign country, or from another part of France, and authorizes the execution of the judgment within the jurisdiction where it is so indorsed. In international law. A More...
  • EXERCISE
    To make use of. Thus, to exercise a right or power is to do something which it enables the holder to do. U. S. v. Souders, 27 Fed. Cas. 1267; Cleaver v. Comm., 34 Pa. 284; Branch v. Glass Works, 95 Ga. 573, 23 S. E. 128.
  • EXERCITALIS
    A soldier; a vassal. Spelman.
  • EXERCITOR NAVIS
    Lat. The temporary owner or charterer of a ship. Mackeld. Rom. Law, | 512; The Phebe, 19 Fed. Cas. 418.
  • EXERCITORIA ACTIO
    In the civil law. An action which lay against the employer of a vessel (exercitor navis) for the contracts made by the master. Inst 4, 7, 2; 3 Kent Comm. 161. Mackeld. Rom. Law,s 512.
  • EXERCITORIAL POWER
    The trust given to a ship-master.
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