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  • EX EMPTO
    Out of purchase; founded on purchase. A term of the civil law, adopted by Bracton. Inst 4, 6, 28; Bract fol. 102. See ACTIO EX EMPTO.
  • EX FACTE
    From the face; apparently; evidently. A term applied to what appears on tbe face of a writing.
  • EX FACTO
    From or in consequence of a fact or action; actually. Usually applied to an unlawful or tortious act as the foundation of a title, etc. Sometimes used as equivalent to "de facto". Bract fol. 172. - Ex facto jus oritur. The law arises out of the fact. Broom, Max. 102. More...
  • EX FICTIONE JURIS
    By a fiction of law. Ex frequenti delicto augetur poena. 2 Inst 479. Punishment increases with increasing crime.
  • EX GRATIA
    Out of grace; as a matter of grace, favor, or indulgence; gratuitous. A term applied to anything accorded as a favor; as distinguished from that which may he demanded ex debito, as a matter of right
  • EX GRAVI QUERELA
    (From or on the grievous complaint.) In old English practice. The name of a writ (so called from its initial words) which lay for a person to whom any lands or tenements in fee were devised by will, (within any city, town, or borough wherein lands were devisable by custom,) More...
  • EX HYPOTHESI
    By the hypothesis; upon the supposition; upon the theory or facts assumed.
  • EX INDUSTRIA
    With contrivance or deliberation; designedly; on purpose. See l Kent, Comm. 318; Martin v. Hunter, 1 Wheat 334, 4 L. Ed. 97.
  • EX INTEGRO
    Anew; afresh.
  • EX JUSTA CAUSA
    From a just or lawful cause; by a just or legal title.
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