An exchange; a place where merchants meet to transact their business;also au equivalent in recompense; a recompense in lieu of dower ad ostium ccclesix.

In English law. The title of a viceroy, governor general, ambassador, or commander in chief.In America. The title is sometimes given to the chief executive of a state or of the nation.

One who excepts; one who makes or files exceptions; one who objectsto a ruling, instruction, or anything proposed or ordered.

In Roman law. An exception. In a general sense, a judicial allegationopposed by a defendant to the plaintiff’s action. Calvin.A stop or stay to an action opposed by the defendant. Cowell.Answering to

In practice. A formal objection to the action of the court, during the trial of a cause, in refusing a request or overruling an objection; implying that the party excepting does not

Lat. With all necessary exceptions.

In old English law. A party who entered an exception or plea.

Extracts.

When a defendant pleaded to an action of assault that the plaintiff trespassedon his land, and he would not depnrt when ordered, whereupon he, mollitcrmanus imposuit, gently laid hands on him, the

Tending to or marked by excess, which is the quality or state of exceeding the proper or reasonable limit or measure. Railway Co. v. Johnston, 106 Ga.i.30, 32 S. E. 78.

In conveyancing. A mutual grant of equal Interests, (in lauds or tenements,) the one in consideration of theother. 2 Bl. Comm. 323; Windsor v. Collin- son, 32 Or. 297, 52 Pac. 26;

That department of the English government which has charge of thecollection of the national revenue; the treasury department.It is said to have been so named from the chequered cloth, resembling a chessboard,which

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

In old English law. A sluice to carry off water; the payment to the lord for the benefit of such a sluice. Cowell.

Shutting out; debarring from interference or participation; vested in oneperson alone. An exclusive right is one which only the grantee thereof can exercise, andfrom which all others are prohibited or shut out.

Excommunication, (q. v.) Co. Litt. 134a.

A sentence of censure pronounced by one of the spiritualcourts for offenses falling under ecclesiastical coguizance. It is described in the booksas twofold: (1) The lesser excommunication, which is an ecclesiastical censure,excluding

In ecclesiastical law. A writ issuing out of chancery, founded on a bishop’s certificate thatthe defendant had been excommunicated, and requiring the sheriff to arrest and imprisonhim, returnable to the king’s bench.

A writ commanding that persons excommunicated, who for their obstinacy had beencommitted to prison, but were unlawfully set free before they had given caution to obeythe authority of the church, should be

In Scotch law. A warrant granted at the suit of a prisoner for citing witnesses in his own defense.