Exoneration

(1) The taking off a burden or duty; the shifting of a burden from one person or one piece of property to another. Thus, it is a general rule in the distribution of an intestate's estate that the debts which he himself contracted, and for which he mortgaged his land as security, shall be paid out of the personal estate, in exoneration of the real. against the principal for reimbursement. Pom. Eq. Jur. p.

467, § 1416.

EXONERATUR (Lat.) In practice. A short note entered on a bail piece, that the bail is exonerated or discharged in consequence of having fulfilled the condition of his obligation, made by order of the court' or of a judge upon a proper cause being shown.

See Recognizance.