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  • 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...
  • EXPOSURE
    The act or state of exposing or being exposed. See EXPOSE. -Exposure of child. Placing it (with the intention of wholly abandoning it) in such a place or position as to leave it unprotected against danger and jeopard its health or life or subject it to the peril of severe More...
  • EXPRESS
    Made known distinctly and explicitly, and not left to inference or implication. Declared in terms; set forth in words. Manifested by direct and appropriate language, as distinguished from that which is inferred from conduct. The word is usually contrasted with "implied." State Y. Denny, 118 Ind. 449, 21 N. E. More...
  • EXPROMISSIO
    In the civil law. The species of novation by which a creditor accepts a new debtor, who becomes bound instead of the old, the latter being released. 1 Bouv. Inst. no. 802.
  • EXPROMISSOR
    In the civil law. A person who assumes the debt of another, and becomes solely liable for it by a stipulation with the creditor. He differs from a surety, inasmuch as this contract is one of novation, while a surety is jointly liable with his principal. Mackeld. Rom. Law, | More...
  • EXPROMITTERE
    In the civil law. To undertake for another, with the view of becoming liable in his place. Calvin.
  • EXPROPRIATION
    This word properly denotes a voluntary surrender of rights or claims; the act of divesting oneself of that which was previously claimed as one's own, or renouncing. It In this sense it to the opposite of "appropriation." But a meaning has been attached to the term, imported from its use More...
  • EXPULSION
    A putting or driving out. The act of depriving a member of a corporation, legislative body, assembly, society, commercial organization, etc., of his membership in the same, by a legal vote of the body itself, for breach of duty, improper conduct or other sufficient cause. New York Protective Ass'n v. More...
  • EXPUNGE
    To blot out; to efface designedly; to obliterate; to strike out wholly. Webster. See CANCEL.
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