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Search Results for "E" EXCLUSIVE rights. Debarring one from participating in a thing. An exclusive right or privilege, is one granted to a person to do a thing, and forbidding all others... more EXCLUSIVE computation of time. Shut out, not included. As when an act is to be done within a certain time, as ten days from a particular time, one day... more EXCOMMUNICATION eccl. law. An ecclesiastical sentence, pronounced by a spiritual judge against a Christian man, by which he is excluded from the body of the church, and disabled... more EXCOMMUNICATIO CAPIENDO, WRIT OF Eng. eccl. law. A writ issuing out of chancery, founded on a hishops certificate that the defendant had been excommunicated, which writ is returnable in the kings... more EXCUSABLE HOMICIDE crim. law. The killing of a human being, when the party killing is not altogether free from blame, but the necessity which renders it excusable, may be... more EXCUSE A reason alleged for the doing or not doing a thing. This word presents two ideas differing essentially from each other. In one case an excuse... more EXEAT eccl. law. This is a Latin term, which is used to express the written permission which a hishop gives to an ecclesiastic to exercise the functions of... more TO EXECUTE To make, to perform, to do, to follow out. This term is frequently used in the law, as, to execute a deed is to make... more EXECUTED Something done, something completed. This word is frequently used in connexion with others to designate a quality of such other words, as an executed contract, an... more EXECUTIO NON These words occur in the stat. 13 Ed. I. cap. 45, in the following connexion: Et...precipiatur vice comiti quod scire faciat parti... quod sit ad certum... more EXECUTION contracts. The accomplishment of a thing, as the execution of a bond and warrant of attorney, which is the signing, sealing, and delivery of the same. ... more EXECUTION crim. law. The putting a convict to death, agreeably to law, in pursuance of his sentence. ... more EXECUTION practice. The act of carrying into effect the final judgment of a court, or other jurisdiction. The writ which authorizes the officer so to carry into effect... more EXECUTION PAREE By the term execution paree, which is used in Louisiana, is meant a right founded on an authentic act, that is, and passed before a notary, by... more EXECUTIONER The name given to him who puts criminals to death, according to their sentence, a hangman. 2. In the United States, executions are so rare... more EXECUTIVE government. That power in the government which causes the laws to be executed and obeyed: it is usually. confided to the hands of the chief magistrate, the president... more EXECUTOR trusts. The word executor, taken in its largest sense, has several accep tations. 1. Executor dativus, who is one called an administrator to an intestate. 2. Executor... more EXECUTORY Whatever may be executed, as an executory sentence or judgment, an executory contract. ... more EXECUTORY DEVISE estates. An executory devise is a limitation by will of a future contingent interest in lands, contrary to the rules of limitation of contingent estate is in conveyances... more EXECUTORY PROCESS via executoria. In Louisiana, this is a process which can be resorted to only in two. cases, namely: 1. When the creditors right arises-from an act importing a... more |