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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.

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 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,