Ex Fictione Juris
Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Black's (1891), Burrill (1850)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
Out of or by fiction of law. Bracton, fol. 53. EX FREQUENTI DELICTO AUGETUR poena. Punishment increases with Increasing crime. 2 Inst. 479. EX GRATIA (Lat. of favor; of grace). Words used formerly at the beginning of royal grants, to indicate that they were not made in consequence of any claim of legal right. EX GRAVI QUERELA (Law Lat. from or on the grievous complaint).
In old English practice. The name of a writ (so called from its initial words) which lay for a person to whom any lands or tenements in fee were devised by will, within any city, town, or borough wherein lands were devisable by custom, and the heir of the devisor entered and detained them from him. Reg. Orig. 244b; Pitzh. Nat. Brev. 198 (L) et seq. 3 Reeve, Hist. Eng. Law, 49. Abolished by St. 3 & 4 Wm. IV. c. 27, § 36.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
By a fiction of law. Ex frequenti delicto augetur poona. 2 Inst. 479. Punisliment increases with increasing crime.
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
Lat Out of, or by fiction of law. Bract, fol. 53.