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  • EXHIBITIO BILLAE
    Lat. Exhibition of a bill. In old English practice, actions were instituted by presenting or exhibiting a bill to the court, in cases where the proceedings were by bill; hence this phrase is equivalent to "commencement of the suit."
  • EXHIBITION
    In Scotch law. An action for compelling the production of writings. In ecclesiastical law. An allowance for meat and drink, usually made by religious appropriators of churches to the vicar. Also the benefaction settled for the maintaining of scholars in the universities, not depending on the foundation. Paroch. Antiq. 304.
  • EXHUMATION
    Disinterment; the removal from the earth of anything previously buried therein, particularly a human corpse.
  • EXIGENCE, OR EXIGENCY
    Demand, want, need, imperativeness. -Exigency of a bond. That which the bond demands or exacts, i. e., the act, performance, or event upon which it is conditioned.-Exigency of a writ. The command or imperativeness of a writ; the directing part of a writ; the act or performance which it commands.
  • EXIGENDARY
    In English law. An officer who makes out exigents.
  • EXIGENT, OR EXIGI FACIAS
    L. Lat. In English practice. A judicial writ made use of in the process of outlawry, commanding the sheriff to demand the defendant, (or cause him to be demanded, exigi faciat) from county court to county court, until he be outlawed; or, if he appear, then to take and have More...
  • EXIGENTER
    An officer of the English court of common pleas, whose duty it was to make out the exigents and proclamations in the process of outlawry. Cowell. Abolished by St 7 Wm. IV. and 1 Vict. c. 30. Holtbouse.
  • EXIGI FACIAS
    That you cause to be demanded. The emphatic words of the Latin form of the writ of exigent. They are sometimes used as the name of that writ
  • EXIGIBLE
    Demandable; requirable.
  • EXILE
    Banishment; the person banished.
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