Ex Empto
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
Out of purchase; founded on purchase. A term of the civil law, adopted by Bracton.
Inst. 4, 6, 2S; Brae. fol. 102; Black, L. Diet. EX GRATIA (Lat.).
Of favor. Of grace. Words used formerly at the beginning of royal grants, to indicate that they were not made in consequence of any claim of legal right. EX INDU STRIA (Lat).
Intentionally.
From fixed purpose. EX MALEFICIO (Lat.). On account of misconduct. By virtue of or out of an Illegal act. I'sed in the civil law generally, and sometimes in the common law.
Browne, Stat. Frauds 110, n.; Broom, Leg. Max. 351.
EX MERO MOTU (Lat.). Of mere motion. ■ The term is derived from the king's letters patent and charters, where it signifies that he grants them of his own mere motion, withwhich the parties would 1 1 • > t strictly he entitled to ask for.
See Ex Gratia; Ex 1'k