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  • EXLEGARE
    In old English law. To outlaw; to deprive one of the benefit and protection of the law, (exuere aliquem beneftcio legis.) Spelman.
  • EXLEX
    In old English law. An outlaw; qui est extra legem, one who is out of the law's protection. Bract, fol. 125. Qui beneficio legis privatur. Spelman.
  • EXOINE
    In French law. An act or instrument in writing which contains the reasons why a party in a civil suit, or a person accused, who has been summoned, agreeably to the requisitions of a decree, does not appear. Poth. Proc. Crim. f 3, art. 3. The same as "Essoin," (q. More...
  • EXONERATION
    The removal of a burden, charge, or duty. Particularly, the act of relieving a person or estate from a charge or liability by casting the same upon another person or estate. Louisville A N. R. Co. v. Comm., 114 Ky. 787, 71 S. W. 916; Bannon r. Burnes (C. C.) More...
  • EXONERATIONE SECTAE
    A writ that lay for the crown's ward, to be free from all suit to the county court, hundred court, leet, etc., during wardship. Fitzh. Nat Brev. 158.
  • EXONERATIONE SECTAE AD CURIAM BARON
    A writ of the same nature as that last above described, issued by the guardian of the crown's ward, and addressed to the sheriffs or stewards of the court, forbidding them to distrain him, etc., for not doing suit of court, etc. New Nat. Brev. 352.
  • EXONERETUR
    Lat. Let him be relieved or discharged. An entry made on a bail-piece, whereby the surety is relieved or discharged from further obligation, when the condition is fulfilled by the surrender of the principal or otherwise.
  • EXORDIUM
    The beginning or introductory part of a speech.
  • EXPATRIATION
    The voluntary act of abandoning one's country, and becoming the citizen or subject of another. Ludlam v. Ludiam, 31 Barb. (N. Y.) 489. See EMIGRATION.
  • EXPECT
    To await; to look forward to something intended, promised, or likely to happen. Atchison, etc., R. Co. v. Hamlin, 67 Kan. 476, 73 Pac. 58. -Expectancy. The condition of being deferred to a future time, or of dependence upon an expected event: contingency as to possession or enjoyment. With respect More...
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