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  • EXPLOSION
    A sudden and rapid combustion, causing violent expansion of the air, and accompanied by a report. The word "explosion" is variously used in ordinary speech, and is not one that admits of exact definition. Every combustion of an explosive substance, whereby other property is ignited and consumed, would not be More...
  • EXPORT
    v. To send, take, or carry an article of trade or commerce out of the country. To transport merchandise from one country to another in the course of trade. To carry out or convey goods by sea. State v. Turner, 5 Har. (Del.) 501.
  • EXPORT
    n. A thing or commodity exported. More commonly used in the plural. In American law, this term is only used of goods carried to foreign countries, not of goods transported from one state to another. Brown v. Houston, 114 U. S. 622, 5 Sup. Ct. 1091, 29 L. Ed. 257; More...
  • EXPORTATION
    The act of sending or carrying goods and merchandise from one country to another.
  • EXPOSE
    v. To show publicly; to display; to offer to the public view; as, to "expose" goods to sale, to "expose" a tariff or schedule of rates, to "expose" the person. Boynton v. Page, 13 Wend. (N. Y.) 432; Comm. v. Byrnes, 158 Mass. 172, 33 N. E. 343; Adams Exp. More...
  • EXPOSE'
    n. Fr. A statement; account; recital; explanation. The term is used in diplomatic language as descriptive of a written explanation of the reasons for a certain act or course of conduct.
  • EXPOSITIO
    Lat. Explanation; exposition ; interpretation. Expositio qusa ex visceribus causae naseitnr, est aptlssima et fortissima in lege. That kind of interpretation which is born [or drawn] from the bowels of a cause is the aptest and most forcible in the law. 10 Coke, 24b.
  • EXPOSITION
    Explanation; interpretation.
  • EXPOSITION DE PART
    In French law. The abandonment of a child, unable to take care of itself, either in a public or private place.
  • EXPOSITORY STATUTE
    One the office of which is to declare what shall be taken to be the true meaning and intent of a statute previously enacted. Black, Const. Law, (3d ed.) 89. And see Lindsay v. United States Sav. A Loan Co., 120 Ala. 156, 24 South. 171, 42 L. R. A. More...
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