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Exeat

Defined in 3 dictionaries — Black's (1910), Black's (1891), Anderson (1889)

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

A permission which a bishop grants to a priest to go out of his diocese; also leave to go out generally.
—Ne. exeat. A writ which forbids the person to whom it is addressed to leave the country, the state, or the jurisdiction of the court; available in some cases to keep a defendant within the reach of the court's process, where the ends of justice would be frustrated if he should escape from the jurisdiction.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A permission which a bishop granta toa priest to go out of his diocese; also leave to go out generally.

A Dictionary of Law

William C. Anderson · 1889

See Exire, Ne exeat.