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EX MALITIA

From malice; maliciously. In the law of libel and slander, this termimports a publication that is false and without legal excuse. Dixon v. Allen, 69 Cal. 527,11 Pac. 179.

EX RELATIONE

Upon relation or information. Legal proceedings which are institutedby the attorney general (or other proper person) in the name and behalf of the state,but on the information and at the instigation of

EXAMINED COPY

A copy of a record,public book, or register, and which has been compared with the original. 1 Campb. 469.

EXCISE

An Inland imposition, paid sometimes upon the consumption of the commodity,and frequently upon the retail sale. 1 Bl. Comm. 318; Story, Const.

EXECUTED

Completed; carried into full effect; already (lone or performed ; takingeffect immediately; now in existence or in possession; conveying an immediate right orpossession. The opposite of executory.

EXEMPTION

Freedom from a general duty or service; immunity from a generalburden, tax, or charge. Green v. State, 59 Md. 128, 43 Am. Rep. 542; Koenig v. RailroadCo., 3 Neb. 3S0; Long v.

EXHIBIT

v. To show or display; to offer or present for inspection. To produceanything iu public, so that it may be taken into possession. Dig. 10, 4, 2.To present; to offer publicly or

EXITUS

Children; offspring. The rents, Issues, and profits of lands and tenements.An export duty. The conclusion of the pleadings.

EXPERIMENT

In patent law, either a trial of an uncompleted mechanical structure to ascertain what changes or additions may be necessary to make it accomplish the design of the projector or a trial

EACH

A distributive adjective pronoun, which denotes or refers to every one of thepersons or things mentioned; every one of two or more persons or things, composingthe whole, separately considered. The effect of

EARNINGS

This term is used to denote a larger class of credits than would be includedin the term “wages.” Somers v. Keliher, 115 Mass. 105; Jenks v. Dyer, 102 Mass. 235.The gains of

EBRIETY

In criminal law and medical jurisprudence. Drunkenness; alcoholic intoxication.Com. v. Whitney, 11 Cusli. (Mass.) 479.Ecce modo minim, quod fcemina fert breve regis, non nominando virum, conjunctumrobore legis. Co. Litt. 1326. Behold, indeed,

EJECT

To cast, or throw out; to oust, or dispossess; to put or turn out of possession.3 Bl. Comm. 198, 199, 200. See Bo- hannon v. Southern Ry. Co., 112 Ky. 106, 05

ELDER TITLE

A title of earlier date, but coming simultaneously into operation with a title of younger origin, is called the “elder title,” and prevails.

ELEEMOSYNARY

Relating to the distribution of alms, bounty, or charity; charitable.

ELUVTONES

In old pleading. Spring tides. Townsh. PI. 197.

EMERGE

To arise; to come to light. “Unless a matter happen to emerge after issue joined.” Hale, Anal.

EMPHYTEUSIS

In the Roman and civil law. A contract by which a landed estate wasleased to a tenant, either in perpetuity or for a long term of years, upon the reservationof an annual

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