Exitus

Lat. [from exire, to go out, or proceed from.] In old English law and practice. Issue or offspring; a child or children. Habuit exitum Thomam, &c.; had issue Thomas.

2 Mon. Angl. 607.

Issues, (in the plural;) the rents or profits of land.

Cowell.

Defined by the statute of Westminster, 2, (c. 39,) to include rents, grain in barns, and all moveable things except horse furniture, clothing, and household utensils. See Issues. An issue, in pleading. So called, according to Lord Coke, because "issuing out of the allegations and pleas of the plaintiff and defendant."

Co. Litt. 126 a.

But properly, because it is the end of the pleading. Exitus idem est quod finis, sive determinatio placiti; issue is the same as the end, or determination of the plea.

Year Book, 21 Edw. IV. 36. Steph. Plead. Appendix, Note (10.) The issue or result of an act.

In maleficiis spectatur voluntas et non exitus; in injuries, the will or motive is regarded, and not the result. Bract. fol.

136 b.

An end

Exitus termini; the end of a term. Bract. fol.

20.

An issue, as the end of pleading. See supra.

See Issue.