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  • EXTUMAE
    In old records. Relics. Cowell.
  • EXUERE PATRIAM
    To throw off or renounce one's country or native allegiance; to expatriate one's self. Phillim, Dom. 18.
  • EXULARE
    In old English law. To exile or banish. Nullus liber homo, exulvtur, nisi, etc., no freeman shall be exiled, unless, etc. Magna Charta, c 29; 2 Inst 47.
  • EXUPERARE
    To overcome; to apprehend or take. Leg. Edni. c. 2.
  • EY
    A watery place; water. Co. Litt. 6.
  • EYDE
    Aid; assistance; relief. A subsidy.
  • EYE-WITNESS
    One who saw the act, fact, or transaction to which he testifies. Distinguished from an ear-witness, (auritus.)
  • EYOTT
    A small island arising in a river. Fleta, 1. 8, c 2, | b; Bract. 1. 2, c. 2.
  • EYRE
    Justices in eyre were judges commissioned in Anglo-Norman times in England to travel systematically through the kingdom, once in seven years, holding courts in specified places for the trial of certain descriptions of causes.
  • EYRER
    L. Fr. To travel or journey; to go about or itinerate. Britt. c. 2.
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