Exoine
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
In French law. An act or instrument in writing which contains the reasons why a party in a civil suit or a person accused, who has been summoned, agreeably to the requisitions of a decree, does not appear.
Poth. Proc. Crim. § 3, art 3.
The same as "Essoin," (q. v.)