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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Out of a pari.ih; not within the bounds or limits of any punsh. 1 Bl. Comm. 113, 2S4.

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

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.

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.