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Exilium

A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

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 driving away tenants or vassals froin the estate; _ a8 by demolishing buildings, and so compelling the tenants to leave, or by enfranchising the bond-servants, and unlawtully turning them out of their tenements. Fieta, L 1, G29; Exilium est patris privatio, natalis soli mutatio, legum nativarum amissio.

7 Coke, 20.

Exile is a privation of country, a change of natal soil, a loss of native laws.