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EXTREMIS

When a person is sick beyond the hope of recovery, and near death, he is said to be in extremis.Extremis probatis, praesumuntnr media. Extremes being proved, intermediate things are presumed. Tray. Lat

EXPOSE

v. To show publicly; to display ; to offer to the public view; as. to “expose”goods to sale, to “expose” a tariff or schedule of rates, to “expose” the person. Boyntonv. Page,

EXTENSION

In mercantile law. An allowance of additional time for the payment of debts. An agreement between a debtorand his creditors, by which they allow him further time for the payment of his

EXTRACT

A portion or fragment of a writing. In Scotch law. the certified copy, by aclerk of a court, of the proceedings In an action carried on before the court, and of the

EXTRINSIC

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

EXTENT

In English practice. A writ of execution issuing from the exchequer upon a debt due the crown, or upon adebt due a private person, if upon recognizance or statute merchant or staple,

EXTRACTA CURE

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

EXTUM

In old records. Relics. Cowell.

EXPOSITORY STATUTE

One the office of which is to declare what shall be taken tobe the true meaning and intent of a statute previously enacted. Black, Const. Law, (3ded.) 89. And see Lindsay v.

EXTENTA MASERU

(The extent or survey of a manor.) The title of a statute passed4 Edw. I. St. 1; being a sort of direction for making a survey or terrier of a manor, andall

EXTRADITION

The surrender of a criminal by a foreign state to which he has fled for refuge from prosecution to the state within whose jurisdiction the crime was committed, upon the demand of

EXULARE

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

EXPOSURE

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

EXTENUATE

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

EXTRA-DOTAL PROPERTY

In Louisiana this term is used to designate that propertywhich forms no part of the dowry of a woman, and which is also called “paraphernalproperty.” Civ. Code La. art. 2315. Fleitas v.

EXUPERARE

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

EXPRESS

Made known distinctly and explicitly, and not left to inference or implication.Declared in terms; set forth in words. Manifested by direct and appropriatelanguage, as distinguished from that which is inferred from conduct.

EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES

Such as render a delict or crime less ‘aggravated, heinous, or reprehensible than itwould otherwise be, or tend to palliate or lessen its guilt Such circumstances may ordinarily be shown in order

EXTRAHAZARDOUS

In the law of insurance. Characterized or attended by circumstances or conditions of special and unusual danger. Reynolds v. Insurance Co., 47 N. Y. 597; Russell v. Insurance Co., 71Iowa, 69, 32

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