Ex Testamento
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
From, by, or under a will. The opposite of ab intestato, (q. v.) Ex tota materia emergat resolutio. The explanation should arise out of the whole subject-matter; the exposition of a statute should be made from all its parts together.
Wing. Max. 233.
Ex turpi causa non oritur actio
Out of a base [illegal, or immoral] consideration, an action does [can] not arise.
1 Selw. N. P. 68; Broom, Max. 730, 732; Story, Ag. § 195.
Ex turpi contractu actio non oritur
From an immoral or iniquitous contract an action does not arise. A contract founded upon an illegal or immoral consideration cannot be enforced by action.
2 Kent, Comm. 466; Dig. 2, 14, 27, 4.