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S. Lat In the dvil law

S. L. Lat In old English law. The executor of a last will and testament CowelL

RP. A thing surrendered into the hands or power of another; a thing giv-en or delivered. Spelman

RO. Suits in the ecclesiastical courts for spiritual of-fenses against conscience, for non-payment of debts, or breaches of civil contracts. This attempt to turn the ecclesiastical courts into courts of equity, was checked by the consti-tntions of Clarendon, A. D. 1164. 3 Bl

L. Fr. To travel or Journey; to go about or ltlnerate. Brltt. c. 2

In Hindu law. A farmer or renter of land ln the districts of Hlndoo-stan

Aid; assistance; relief. A subsidy

A small island arising in a river. Fleta, 1. 8, c. 2, | b; Bract 1. 2, c. 2

Justices in eyre were judges corn-missioned in Anglo-Norman times in Eng-land to travel systematically through the

In old Engllsh law. To exile or banish. Nullus liber homo, exulctur, nisi, etc., no freeman shall be exiled, unless, etc. Magna Charta, c. 29; 2 Inst. 47

To overcome; to apprehend or take. Leg. Edm. c. 2

Foreign; from outside sources; dehors. As to extrinsic evidence, see Eviobncb

In old records. Relics. Cowell

In the law of divorce. The infliction of grievous bodily harm or grievous mental suffering. Clv. Code Cal. 1903, S 94. Either personal vio-lence or the reasonable apprehension thereof, or a systematic course of 111 treatment affecting health and endangering life. Mor-rls v. Morrls, 14 Cal. 79, 73 Am. Dec. 615; Harratt v. Harratt, 7 […]

To constitute extreme hazard, the situation of a vessel must be such that there is imminent danger of her being lost, notwlthstanding all the means that can be applied to get her off. King v. Hartford Ins. Co., 1 Conn. 421

The extra-territorial operation of laws; that ls, tbclr operation upon persons, rights, or jural relations, existing beyond the limits of the enacting state, but still amenable to its laws

In canon law. Those decretal epistles whlch were publish-ed after the Clementines. They were so call-ed because at first they were not digested or arranged with the other papal constitutions, but seemed to be, as it were, detached from the canon law. They continued to be called

In old English law

out of a parish ; not within the bounds or limits of any parish. 1 Bl. Comm. 113, 284

In mining law. The right of the owner of a mining claim duly located on tbe public domain to follow, and mine, any vein or lode the apex of which lies within the boundaries of his location on the surface, notwithstanding the course of the vein on its dip or downward direction may so far […]

In old English law. An animal wandering or straying about, with-out an owner; an estray. Spelman

That which is done, given, or effected outside the course of reg-ular judlcial proceedings; not founded up-on, or unconnected with, the action of a court of law; as extrajudicial evidence, an extrajudicial oath

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In old English law. The issues or profits of holding a court, arising from the customary fees, etc

The surrender of a criminal by a foreign state to which he has fled for refuge from prosecution to the state within whose jurisdiction tbe crime was committed, upon the demand of the latter state, ln order that he may be dealt with according to its laws. Extradition may be accorded as a mere matter […]

A Latin preposition, occurring ln many legal phrases; it means beyond, ex-cept, without, out of, outside

A portion or fragment of a writing. In Scotch law, the certified copy, by a clerk of a court, of the proceedings ln

A technical word used in Indictments for extortion

Any oppression by color or pretense of right, and particularly the exaction by an officer of mouey, by color of his office, either when none at all is due, or not so much is due, or when it is not yet due. Preston v. Bacon, 4 Conn. 480

A judicial writ, either before or after judgment, that lay against a person who, when a verdict waa found against him for land, etc., maliciously overthrew any house or extirpated aay trees upon it Reg. Jud. 13, 56

The destruction or cancellation of a right, power, contract, or estate. Tbe annihilation of a collateral thing or subject in the subject itself out of which it is derived. Prest. Merg. 9. For the distinction between an extinguishment and passing a right, see 2 Share. Bl. Comm. 325, note

In English law. A species of destruction or waste, analogous to estrepement See Estoepkment

The privilege of those persons (such as foreign ministers) who, though temporarily resident within a state, are not subject to the operation of its laws

Lat A foreigner or alien; one born abroad. The opposite of civis

Extinguished. A rent Is said to be extinguished when lt ls destroyed and put out Co. Litt. 147b. See Extinguish-MKNT

To lessen; to palliate; to mitigate. Connell v. State, 46 Tex. Cr. R. 259, 81 S. W. 748

Such as render a delict or crime less aggra-vated, heinous, or reprehensible than lt would otherwise be, or teud to palliate or lessen lts guilt Such circumstances may or-

(The extent or survey of a manor.) The title of a statute passed 4 Edw. I. St. 1; being a sort of dl-rectlon for making a survey or terrier of a manor, and all its appendages. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 140

In old English law. Extenders or appraisers. The name of cer-tain officers appointed to appraise and divide or apportion lands. It was thelr duty to make a survey, schedule, or inventory of the lands, to lay them out under certain heads, and then to ascertain the value of each, as preparatory to the division or […]

In English praotioe. A

In mercantile law. An

(From ex, from, and ro-gare, to pass a law.) In Roman law. To take something from an old law by a new law. Tayl. Civil Law, 155

To expand, enlarge, prolong, widen, carry ont, further than the original limit; as, to extend the time for filing an answer, to extend a lease, term of ofHce, charter, railroad track, etc. Flagler v. Hearst. 62 App. Dlv. 18. 70 N. Y. Supp. 956; Gouldlng v. Hammond, 54 Fed. 642. 4 C. C. A. 533; […]

The act of purging or cleansing, as where a book is published without lts obscene passages

one who corrects by expurging

In Roman law. one who had filled the office of qucestor. A title given to Tribonian. Inst procem. $ 3. Used only in the ablative case, (exqucestore

To blot out; to efface de-slgnedly; to obliterate; to strike out wholly. webster. See Cancel

In the civil law. A person who assumes the debt of another, and becomes solely liable for lt, by a stipulation with the creditor. He differs from a surety, inasmuch as tills contract is one of novation, while a surety ls jointly liable with his principal. Mackeld. Rom. Law,

In the civil law

In the civil law. The species of novation by which a creditor ac-cepts a new debtor, who becomes bound in-stead of the old, the latter being released