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  • EXEMPTS
    Persons who are not bound by law, but excused from the performance of duties imposed upon others.
  • EXENNIUM
    In old English law. A gift; a new year's gift. Cowell.
  • EXEQUATUR
    Lat. Let it be executed. In French practice, this term is subscribed by judicial authority upon a transcript of a judgment from a foreign country, or from another part of France, and authorizes the execution of the judgment within the jurisdiction where it is so indorsed. In international law. A More...
  • EXERCISE
    To make use of. Thus, to exercise a right or power is to do something which it enables the holder to do. U. S. v. Souders, 27 Fed. Cas. 1267; Cleaver v. Comm., 34 Pa. 284; Branch v. Glass Works, 95 Ga. 573, 23 S. E. 128.
  • EXERCITALIS
    A soldier; a vassal. Spelman.
  • EXERCITOR NAVIS
    Lat. The temporary owner or charterer of a ship. Mackeld. Rom. Law, | 512; The Phebe, 19 Fed. Cas. 418.
  • EXERCITORIA ACTIO
    In the civil law. An action which lay against the employer of a vessel (exercitor navis) for the contracts made by the master. Inst 4, 7, 2; 3 Kent Comm. 161. Mackeld. Rom. Law,s 512.
  • EXERCITORIAL POWER
    The trust given to a ship-master.
  • EXERCITUAL
    In old English law. A heriot paid only in arms, horses, or military accouterments.
  • EXERCITUS
    In old European law. An army; an armed force. The term was absolutely indefinite as to number. It was applied, on various occasions, to a gathering of forty-two armed men, of thirty-five, or even of four. Spelman.
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