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  • EXETER DOMESDAY
    The name given to a record preserved among the muniments and charters belonging to the dean and chapter of Exeter Cathedral, which contains a description of the western parts of the kingdom, comprising the counties of Wilts, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall. The Exeter Domesday was published with several other More...
  • EXFESTUCARE
    To abdicate or resign ; to resign or surrender an estate, office, or dignity, by the symbolical delivery of a staff or rod to the alienee.
  • EXFREDIARE
    To break the peace; to commit open violence. Jacob.
  • EXHAEREDATIO
    In the civil law. Disinheriting; disherison. The formal method of excluding an indefeasible (or forced) heir from the entire inheritance, by tbe testator's express declaration in the will that such person shall be exhaeres. Mackeld. Rom. Law, s 711.
  • EXHAERES
    In the civil law. One disinherited. Vicat; Du Cange.
  • EXHEREDATE
    In Scotch law. To disinherit; to exclude from an inheritance.
  • EXHIBERE
    To present a thing corporeally, so that it may be handled. Vicat. To appear personally to conduct the defense of an action at law.
  • EXHIBIT
    v. To show or display; to offer or present for inspection. To produce anything in public, so that it may be taken into possession. Dig. 10, 4, 2. To present; to offer publicly or officially; to file of record. Thus we speak of exhibiting a charge of treason, exhibiting a More...
  • EXHIBIT
    n. A paper or document produced and exhibited to a court during a trial or hearing, or to a commissioner taking depositions, or to auditors, arbitrators, etc., as a voucher, or in proof of facts, or as otherwise connected with the subject-matter, and which, on being accepted, is marked for More...
  • EXHIBITANT
    A complainant in articles of the peace. 12 Adol. A E. 599.
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