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Exactor Regis

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

The king's exactor, who collected the taxes and other moneys due to the treasury. In the counties, this office was performed by the sheriff; in the seaports and cities by the publicans.

Spelman.

EXALTARE (Law Lat.) In old English law. To raise or elevate. Exaltare stagnum, to raise a pool.

Reg. Orig. 199; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 184 (O).

To raise the water in a pond by damming, so as to overflow another's land. Bracton, fol.

232; Fleta, lib. 4, c. 1, § 19.

EXAM EN (Law Lat.) A trial. Examen computi, the balance of an account. Towns. PI.

223.