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.