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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

EXHIBITANT

A complainant in articles of the peace. 12 Adol. & E. 509.

EXHIBITIO BILLED

Lat Exhibition of a bill. In old English practice, actions wereinstituted by presenting or exhibiting a bill to the court, in cases where the proceedingswere by bill; hence this phrase is equivalent

EXHIBITION

In Scotch law. An action for compelling the production of writings.In ecclesiastical law. An allowance for meat and drink, usually made by religiousappropriators of churches to the vicar. Also the benefaction settled

EXHUMATION

Disinterment; the removal from the earth of anything previous lyburied therein, particularly a human corpse.

EXIGENDARY

In English law. An officer who makes out exigents.

EXIGENT, or EXIGI FACIAS

L. Lat. In English practice. A judicial writ made use of inthe process of outlawry, commanding the sheriff to demand the defendant, (or causehim to be demanded, cxigi fa- ciat,) from county

EXIGI FACIAS

That you cause to be demanded. The emphatic words of the Latinform of the writ of exigent. They are sometimes used as the name of that writ.

EXILE

Banishment; the person banished.

EXILIUM

Lat. In old English law.(1) Exile; banishment from one’s country.(2) Driving away; despoiling. The name of a species of waste, which consisted in drivingaway tenants or vassals from the estate; as by

EXIST

To live; to have life or animation; to be in present force, activity, or effect ata given time; as in speaking of “existing” contracts, creditors, debts, laws, rights, orliens. Merritt v. Grover,

EXISTIMATIO

In the civil law. The civil reputation which belonged to the Romancitizen, as such. Mackeld. Rom. Law,

EXIT

Lat It goes forth. This word is used In docket entries as a brief mention of theissue of process. Thus, “exit fi. fa.” denotes that a writ of fieri facias has been

EXIT WOUND

A term used in medical jurisprudence to denote the wound made bya weapon on the side where it emerges, after it has passed completely through thebody, or through any part of it

EXITUS

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

EXLEGARE

In old English law. To outlaw; to deprive one of the benefit andprotection of the law, (exuere aliquem benefi- cio legis.) Spelman.

EXLEX

In old English law. An outlaw; qui est extra legem, one who Is out of thelaw’s protection. Bract, fol. 125. Qui benefieio legis privatur. Spelman.

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