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Expeditare

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Espealtare.

L. Lat, [from ex, out, and pes, foot.] In old forest law. To cut out the ball, or cut off the claws of a dog's foot; to expeditate, (q. v.) Spelman.

Cowell.

To cut the foot or root of a tree, so as to occasion it to fall (?) Fleta, lib.

2, c. 41, sec. 31.