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  • EXPILARE
    In the civil law. To spoil; to rob or plunder. Applied to inheritances. Dig. 47, 19; Cod. 9, 32.
  • EXPILATIO
    In the civil law. The offense of unlawfully appropriating goods belonging to a succession. It is not technically theft (furtum) because such property no longer belongs to the decedent, nor to the heir, since the latter has not yet taken possession.
  • EXPILATOR
    In the civil law. A robber; a spoiler or plunderer. Expilatores sunt atrociores fures. Dig. 47, 18, 1, 1.
  • EXPIRATION
    Cessation; termination from mere lapse of time; as the expiration of a lease, or statute, and the like. Marshall v. Rugg, 6 Wyo. 270, 45 Pac. 480, 33 L. It A. 679; Bowman v. Foot, 29 Conn. 338; Stuart v. Hamilton, 66 111. 255; Farn-um v. Piatt, 8 Pick. (Mass.) More...
  • EXPIRY OF THE LEGAL
    In Scotch law and practice. Expiration of the period within which an adjudication may be redeemed, by paying the debt in the decree of adjudication. Bell.
  • EXPLEES
    See ESPLEES.
  • EXPLETA, EXPLETIA, OR EXPLECIA
    In old records. The rents and profits of an estate.
  • EXPLICATIO
    In the civil law. The fourth pleading; equivalent to the surrejoinder of the common law. Calvin.
  • EXPLORATION
    In mining law. The examination and investigation of land supposed to contain valuable minerals, by drilling, boring, sinking shafts, driving tunnels, and other means, for the purpose of discovering the presence of ore and its extent. Colvin v. Weimer, 64 Minn. 37, 65 N. W. 1079.
  • EXPLORATOR
    A scout, huntsman, or chaser.
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