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EXPROMISSOR

In the civil law. A person who assumes the debt of another, andbecomes solely liable for it. by a stipulation with the creditor. lie differs from a surety,inasmuch as this contract is

EXTERUS

Lat A foreigner or alien; one born abroad. The opposite of civis.Exterus non habet terras. An alien holds no lands. Tray. Lat. Max. 203.

EXTRAJUDICIAL

That which Is done, given, or effected outside the course of regularjudicial proceedings; not founded upon, or unconnected with, the action of a courtof law; as extrajudicial evidence, an extrajudicial oath.That which,

EYE-WITNESS

One who saw the act, fact, or transaction to which he testifies.Distinguished from an ear-witness, (auritus.)

EXPILATOR

In tbe civil law. A robber; a spoiler or plunderer. Expilutorcs auntatrociores fures. Dig. 47, 18, 1, 1.

EXPROMITTERE

In the civil law. To undertake for another, with the view ofbecoming liable in his place. Calvin.

EXTINCT

Extinguished. A rent is said to be extinguished when it is destroyed andput out. Co. Litt. 1476. See EXTINGUISHMENT.Extincto subjecto, tollitur adjunc- tum. When the subject is extinguished, theIncident ceases. Thus, when

EXTRALATERAL RIGHT

In mining law. The right of the owner of a mining claim dulylocated on the public domain to follow, and mine, any vein or lode the apex of whichlies within the boundaries

EYOTT

A small island arising in a river. Fleta, L 3, c. 2, | b; Bract. 1. 2, c. 2.

EXPIRATION

Cessation; termination from mere lapse of time; as the expiration of alease, or statute, and the like. Marshall v. Rugg, 6 Wyo. 270, 45 Pac. 486, 33 L. It. A.679; Rowinan v.

EXPROPRIATION

This word properly denotes a voluntary surrender of rights orclaims; the act of divesting oneself of that which was previously claimed as one’s own,or renouncing it. In this sense it is the

EXTINGUISHMENT

The destruction or cancellation of a right, power, contract, orestate. The annihilation of a collateral thing or subject in the subject itself out of whichIt is derived. Prest. Merg. 9. For the

EXTRANEUS

In old English law. One foreign born; a foreigner. 7 Coke, 10.In Roman law. An heir not born in the family of the testator. Those of a foreignotate. The same as alicnus.

EYRE

Justices in eyre were judges commissioned in Anglo-Norman times in Englandto travel systematically through thekingdom, once in seven years, holding courts in specified places for the trial of certaindescriptions of causes.

EXPIRY OF THE LEGAL

In Scotch law and practice. Expiration of the period withinwhich an adjudication may be redeemed, by paying the debt in the decree ofadjudication. Bell.

EXPULSION

A putting or driving out. The act of depriving a member of a corporation,legislative body, assembly, society, commercial organization, etc., of his membershipin the same, by a legal vote of the body

EXTIRPATION

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

EXTRAORDINARY

Out of the ordinary ; exceeding the usual, average, or normalmeasure or degree.

EYRER

L. Fr. To travel or journey ; to go about or itinerate. Britt. c. 2.

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