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  • EX LEGE
    By the law; by force of law; as a matter of law.
  • EX LEGIBUS
    According to the laws. A phrase of the civil law, which means according to the intent or spirit of the law, as well as according to the words or letter. Dig. 50, 16, 6. See Calvin.
  • EX LICENTIA REGIS
    By the king's license. 1 Bl. Comm. 168, note.
  • EX LOCATO
    From or out of lease or letting. A term of the civil law, applied to actions or rights of action arising out of the contract of locatum, (q. v.) Inst. 4, 6, 28. Adopted at an early period in the law of England. Bract, fol. 102; 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, More...
  • EX MALEFICIO
    Growing out of, or founded upon, misdoing or tort. This term is frequently used in the civil law as the synonym of "ex delicto" (q. v.) and is thus contrasted with "ex contractu". In this sense it is of more rare occurrence in the common law, though found In Bracton, More...
  • EX MALITIA
    From malice; maliciously. In the law of libel and slander, this term imports a publication that is false and without legal excuse. Dixon v. Allen, 69 CaL 527, 11 Pac. 179.
  • EX MERO MOTU
    Of his own mere motion; of his own accord; voluntarily and without prompting or request. Royal letters patent which are granted at the crown's own instance, and without request made, are said to be granted ex mero motu. When a court interferes, of its own motion, to object to an More...
  • EX MORA
    From or in consequence of delay. Interest is allowed ex mora; that is, where there has been delay in returning a sum borrowed. A term of the civil law. Story, Bailm. s 84.
  • EX MORE
    According to custom. Calvin. Ex multltudine signorum, oolligitur identitas vera. From a great number of signs or marks, true identity is gathered or made up. Bac. Max. 103, in regula 25. A thing described by a great number of marks is easily identified, though, as to some, the description may More...
  • EX MUTUO
    From or out of loan. In the old law of England, a debt was said to arise ex mutuo when one lent another anything which consisted in number, weight or measure 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 159; Bract fol. 99.
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