Expense

Lat. [from expendere, to expend.] In the civil law. Expenses or charges. Expensae litis; costs of suit. Calv. Lex. Victus victori in expensis condemnatur. The vanquished party shall be condemned to the victor in the costs, [i. e. adjudged to pay the costs.] Code, 3.

1. 13.

Experientia per varios actus legem facit

Experience by various or repeated acts, makes law.

Branch's Princ. Co. Litt. 60. EXPERIRI.

Lat. In the civil law. To sue; to try one's right by law.

Inst. 2. 6. 9. Id. 4. 6. 40. Id. 4. 11. pr.

Used in the same sense, with the words judicio, actione, &c. Calv. Lex. Jur.