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  • IN EXITU
    In Issue. De materia in exitu, of the matter in issue. 12 Mod. 372. In expositione instrumentomm, mala grammatlea, qnod fieri potest, vitanda est. In the construction of instruments, bad grammar is to be avoided as much as possible. 6 Coke, 39; 2 Pars. Cont 26.
  • IN EXTENSO
    In extension; at full length; from beginning to end, leaving out nothing.
  • IN EXTREMIS
    In extremity; in the last' extremity; in the last illness. 2 Bl. Comm. 375, 500; Prince v. Hazleton, 20 Johns. (N. Y.) 502, 11 Am. Dec. 307. Ayens in extremis, being in extremity. Bract, fol. 373b. Declarations in extremis, dying declarations. 1 Greenl. Ev. | 156; Wilson v. Boerem, 15 More...
  • IN FACIE CURIAE
    In the face of the court Dyer, 28.
  • IN FACIE ECCLESIAE
    In the face of the church. A term applied in the law of England to marriages, which are required to be solemnized in a parish church or public chapel, unless by dispensation or license. 1 Bl. Comm. 439; 2 Steph. Comm. 288, 289. Applied in Bracton to the old mode More...
  • IN FACIENDO
    In doing; in feasance; in the performance of an act 2 Story, Eq. Jur. | 1308.
  • IN FACT
    Actual, real; as distinguished from implied or inferred. Resulting from the acts of parties, instead of from the act or intendment of law.
  • IN FACTO
    In fact; in deed. In facta dicit, in fact says. 1 Salk. 22, pi. L In facto qnod se habet ad bonum et malum, magis de bono qnam de malo lex intendit. In an act or deed which admits of being considered as both good and bad, the law intends More...
  • IN FAVOREM LIBERTATIS
    In favor of liberty.
  • IN FAVOREM VITAE
    In favor of life. In f avorem vita, libertatis, et innocen-tisB, omnia prsesumuntur. In favor of life, liberty, and innocence, every presumption is made. Lofft 125.
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