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Search Results for "E" EX VISITATIONE DEI By or from the visitation of God. This phrase is frequently employed in inquisitions by the coroner, where it signifies that the death of the deceased... more EX TEMPORE From the time without premeditation. ... more EXACTION torts. A willful wrong done by an officer, or by one who, under color of his office, takes more fee or pay for his services than what... more EXAMINATION crim. law. By the common law no one is bound to accuse himself. Nemo tenetur prodere seipsum. In England, by the statutes of Philip and Mary, (1... more EXAMINATION practice. The interrogation of a witness, in order to ascertain his knowledge as to the facts in dispute between parties. When the examination is made by the... more EXAMINED COPY This phrase is applied to designate a paper which is a copy of a record, public book, or register, and which has been compared with the... more EXAMINERS practice. Persons appointed to question students of law, in order to ascertain their qualifications before they are admitted to practice. Officers in the courts of chancery whose... more EXAMPLE An example is a case put to illustrate a. principle. Examples illustrate, but do not restrain or change the laws: illustrant non restringunt legem. Co. Litt.... more EXCAMBIATOR The name of an exchanger of lands, a broker. This term is now obsolete. ... more EXCAMBIUM Exchange. (q. v.) ... more EXCEPTIO REI JUDICATAE civil law. The name of a plea by which the defendant alleges that the matter in dispute between the parties has been before adjudged. See Res judicata. ... more EXCEPTION Eng. Eq. practice. Re-interrogation. 2 Benth. Ev. 208, n. ... more EXCEPTION legislation, construction. Exceptions are rules which limit the extent of other more general rules, and render that just and proper, which would be, on account of its... more EXCEPTION contracts. An exception is a clause in a deed,. by which the lessor excepts something out of that which he granted before by the deed. ... more EXCEPTION practice, pleading. This term is used in the civil, nearly in the same sense that the word plea has in the common law. Merl. Repert. h. t., Ayl.... more EXCHANGE com. law. This word has several significations. 2. - 1. Exchange is a negotiation by which one person transfers to another funds which he has... more EXCHANGE conveyancing. An exchange is a mutual grant of equal interests in land, the one in consideration of the other. 2 Bl. Com. 323, Litt. s. 62,... more EXCHEQUER R Eng. law. An ancient court of record set up by William the Conqueror. It is called exchequer from the chequered cloth, resembling a chesshoard, which covers the... more EXCHEQUER CHAMBER Eng. law. A court erected by statute 31 Ed. III. c. 12, to determine causes upon writs of error from the common law side of the court... more EXCISES This word is used to signify an inland imposition, paid sometimes upon the consumption of the commodity, and frequently upon the retail sale. 1 Bl. Com.... more |