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  • EX
    1. A Latin preposition meaning from, out of, by, on, on account of, or according to. 2. A prefix, denoting removal or cessation. Prefixed to the name of an office, relation, status, etc., it denotes that the perpon spoken of once occupied that office or relation, but does so no More...
  • EX ABUNDANTI
    Out of abundance; abundantly; superfluously; more than sufficient. Calvin.
  • EX ABUNDANTI CAUTELA
    Lat. Out of abundant caution. "The practice has arisen abundanti cautela." 8 East 326; Lord Ellenborough, 4 Maule A S. 544.
  • EX AD VERSO
    On the other side. 2 Show. 461. Applied to counsel.
  • EX AQUITATE
    According, to equity ; in equity. Fleta, lib. 3, c. 10, I 3.
  • EX AEQUO ET BONO
    A phrase derived from the civil law, meaning, in justice and fairness; according to what is just and good; according to equity and conscience. 3 Bl. Comm. 163.
  • EX ALTERA PARTE
    Of the other part. Ex antecedentibus et consequentibus fit optima interpretatio. The best interpretation [of a part of an instrument] is made from the antecedents and the consequents, [from the preceding and following parts.] 2 Inst. 317. The law will judge of a deed or other instrument consisting of divers More...
  • EX ARBITRIO JUDICIS
    At, in, or upon the discretion of the judge. 4 Bl. Comm. 304. A term of the civil law. Inst. 4, 6, 31.
  • 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...
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