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

In old records. The rents and profits of an estate.

To blot out; to efface designedly; to obliterate; to strike out wholly. Webster. See CANCEL. See, e.g., How To Expunge Your Record: Guide and FAQ

A judicial writ, either before or after judgment, that lay against aperson who, when a verdict was found against him for land, etc., maliciously overthrewany house or extirpated any trees upon it.

The exira-teiritorial operation of laws; that Is, their operation upon persons, rights, or juralrelations,, existing beyond the limits of the enacting state, but still amenable to its laws.

In the civil law. The fourth pleading; equivalent to the surrejoinder of the common law. Calvin.

The act of purging or cleansing, as where a book is published withoutIts obscene passages.

In old records. To grub woodland, and reduce it to arable or meadow ; “to stock up.” Cowell.

In canon law. Those decretal epistles which were published afterthe Clementines. They were so called because at first they were not digested orarranged with the other papal constitutions, but seemed to be,

In mining law. The examination and investigation of land supposedto contain valuable minerals, by drilling, boring, sinking shafts, driving tunnels, andother means, for the purpose of discovering the presence of ore and

One who corrects by expurging.

A technical word used in indictments for extortion.It is a sufficient averment of a corrupt intent, in an indictment for extortion, to allegethat the defendant “extorsively” took the unlawful fee. Leeman v.

In the law of divorce. The infliction of grievous bodily harm or grievous mental suffering. Civ. CodeCal. 1903.

A sudden and rapid combustion, causing violent expansion of the air,and accompanied by a report. The word “explosion” is variously used in ordinary speech, and is not one that admits of exact

In Roman law. One who had filled the office of qinrxtor. A title givento Tribonian. Inst, protein.

The natural meaning of the word “extort” is to obtain money or othervaluable thing either by compulsion, by actual force, or by the force of motives appliedto the will, and often more

To constitute extreme hazard, the situation of a vessel must besuch that there is imminent danger of her being lost, notwithstanding all the means thatcan be applied to get her off. King

v. To send, take, or carry an article of trade or commerce out of the country.To transport merchandise from one country to another In the course of trade. Tocarry out or convey

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

Any oppression by color or pretense of right, and particularly the exactionby an officer of money, by color of his office, either when none at all is due, ornot so much is