Category: E

In French law. The abandonment of a child, unable to take care of itself, either in a public or prlvate place

The act or state of exposing or being exposed. See Expose

A sudden and rapid com-bustion, causing violent expansion of the air, and accompanied by a report

The act of sending or carrying goods and merchandise from one country to another

Explanation; interpretation

In mining law. The examination and investigation of land sup-posed to contain valuable minerals, by drilling, boring, sinking shafts, driving tunnels, and other means, for the purpose of discovering the presence of ore and Its extent Colvin v. weimer, 64 Minn. 37, 65 N. W. 1079

A scout, huntsman, or chaser

In the civU law. The fourth pleading; equivalent to the surre-joinder of the common law. Calvin

EXPLETIA, or EXPLE-GIA. In old records. The rents and profits of an estate

Cessation; termination from mere lapse of time; as the expiration of a lease, or statute, and the like. Mar-shall v. Rugg, 6 wyo. 270, 45 Pac. 486. 33 L. R. A. 679; Bowman v. Foot. 29 Conn. 338; Stuart v. Hamilton, G6 111. 255; Farn-um v. Platt. 8 Pick. (Mass.) 341, 19 Am. Dec. 330

In Scotch law and practice. Expiration of the period within which an adjudication may be re-deemed. by paying the debt lu the decree of adjudication. Bell

E8. See Esplees

In the civil law. The offense of unlawfully appropriating goods belonging to a succession. It is not technic-ally theft (furtum) because such property no longer belongs to the decedent, nor to the heir, since the latter has not yet taken pos-session

In the civil lnw. A robber ; a spoiler or plunderer. Expilutorcs sunt atrociores fures. Dig. 47, 18, 1, 1

Persona examined as witnesses ln a cause, who testify in regard to some professional or technical matter arising ln the case, and who are permitted to glve their opinions as to such matter on account of their speclal training, skill, or famlllarity with it

In the civil law. To spoil; to rob or plunder. Applied to inheritances. Dig. 47, 19; Cod. 9, 32

Costs or expenses of the suit, which are generally allowed to the successful party

Au aucient writ to prohibit the sher-iff from levying any allowance for knights of the shire upon those who held lands ln ancient demesne. Reg. orig. 261

In regard to trespass and other torts, this term means to eject, to put out, to drive out, and generally with an Implication of the use of force. Perry v. Fitzhowe, 8

Paymasters. Thoee who expend or disburse certain taxes. Es-pecially the sworn officer who supervised the repairs of the banks of the canals in Romney Marsh. Cowell

In old forest law. A cutting off the claws or ball of the forefeet of mastiffs or other dogs, to prevent their running after deer. Spelman; Cowell

An expedition; an lrreg-ular kind of army. Spelman

In old practice. The service of a writ Townsh. Pl. 43

Trees root-ed up or cut down to the roots. Fleta, L 2, c. 41

To await; to look forward to something intended, promised, or likely to happen. Atchison, etc., R. Co. v. Hamlin, 67 Kan. 476, 73 Pac. 58

In Mexican law, a term including all the papers or documents con-stitutlng a grant or title to laud from govern-ment Vanderslice v. Hanks, 3 Cal. 27, 38

The beginning or intro-ductory part of a speech

The voluntary act of abandoning one’s country, and becoming the citizen or subject of another. Ludlam r. Ludlam, 31 Barb. (N. Y.) 489. See Emioba-tion

Lat. Let him be relieved or discharged. An entry made on a bail-piece, whereby the surety is relieved or discharged from further obligation, when the condition is fulfilled by the surrender of the principal or otherwise

The removal of a bur-den, charge, or duty. Particularly, the act of rellevlng a person or estate from a charge or liability by castlng the same upon another person or estate. Louisville & N. R. Co. v. Comm., 114 Ky. 787, 71 S. W. 916; Bannon v. Burnes (C. C.) 39 Fed. 898

In old English law. An out-law; qui est extra legem, one who ls out ot the law’s protection. Bract, fol. 125. Qui beneficio legis privatur. Spelman

In old English law. outlawry. Spelman

He who is prosecuted as an ontlaw. Jacob

In old English law. To outlaw; to deprive one of the benefit and protection of the law, (exuere aliquem benefl-cio legis.) Spelman

A term nsed in medl-cal jurisprudence to denote the wound made by a weapon on the side where it emerges, after it has passed completely through the body, or through nny part of it

Children; offspring. The rents, Issues, and profits of lands and tenements. An export duty. The conclusion of the pleadings

Lat. In old English law

Banishment; the person batf-lshed

Demandable; requirable

That yon cause to he demanded. The emphatic words of the Lat-ln form of the writ of exigent. They are sometimes used as the name of that writ

An officer of the Eng-lish court of common pleas, whose duty it was to make out the exigents and proclamations in the process of outlawry. Cowell. Abolished by SL 7 wm. IV. and 1 Vict. C. 30. Holthouse

EXIGI FACIAS. L. Lat. In English practice. A judicial writ made nse of in the process of outlawry, comraand-ing the sheriff to demand the defeudant, (or cause him to be demanded, exigi fa-ciat,) from county court to county court, un-til he be outlawed; or, if he appear, theu to take and have him before the […]

In English law. Ah officer who makes out exigents

or EXIGENCY. Demand, want, need, imperativeness

Disinterment; the removal from the earth of anything previously burled therein, particularly a human corpse

In Scotch law. An action for compelling the production of wrlt-ings

A complainant ln arti-cles of the peace. 12 Adol. A E. 599

To present a thiug cor-poreally, so that it may be handled. Vicat To appear personally to conduct the defense of an action at law

In Scotch law. To disinherit; to exclude from au inheritance

In the civil law. one dis-inherited. Vicat; Du Cange