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  • EX CONSULTO
    With consultation or deliberation.
  • EX CONTINENTI
    Immediately; without any interval or delay; incontinently. A term of the civil law. Calvin.
  • EX CONTRACTU
    From or out of a contract. In both the civil and the common law, rights and causes of action are divided into two classes,-those arising ex contractu, (from a contract,) and those arising ex delicto, (from a delict or tort.) See 3 Bl. Comm. 117; Mackeld. Rom. Law, f 884. More...
  • EX CURIA
    Out of court; away from the court.
  • EX DEBITO JUSTITIAE
    From or as a debt of justice; in accordance with the requirement of justice; of right; as a matter of right. The opposite of ex gratia, (q. v.) 3 Bl. Comm. 48, 67.
  • EX DEFECTU SANGUINIS
    From failure of blood; for want of issue.
  • EX DELICTO
    From a delict, tort, fault, crime, or malfeasance. In both the civil and the common law, obligations and causes of action are divided into two great classes,-those arising ex contractu, (out of a contract) and those ex delicto. The latter are such as grow out of or are founded upon More...
  • EX DEMISSIONE
    (commonly abbreviated ex dem.) Upon the demise. A phrase forming part of the title of the old action of ejectment.
  • EX DIRECTO
    Directly; immediately. Story, Bills, f 199. Ex diutamltate temporis, omnia prso-nnutw solemnlter esse acta. From length of time [after lapse of time] all things are presumed to have been done in due form. Co. Litt 6b; Best Ev. Introd | 43; 1 GreenL Ev. | 20.
  • EX DOLO MALO
    Out of fraud; out of deceitful or tortious conduct. A phrase applied to obligations and causes of action vitiated by fraud or deceit. Ex dolo malo non oritur actio. Out of fraud no action arises; fraud never gives a right of action. No court will lend its aid to a More...
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