Exempts

Persons who are not bound by law, but excused from the performance of duties imposed upon others.

Persons who are not bound by law, but excused from the performance of duties imposed upon others. By act of congress Feb. 24, 1S64, it was enacted that such persons as were rejected as physically or mentally unfit for the service, all persons actually in the military or naval service of the United Stat. at the time of the draft, and all persons who had served in the military or naval service two years during the then war and been honorably discharged therefrom, and no others, were exempt from enrolment and draft under said act, and act of congress. March 3, 1SG3. EXEQUATUR (Lat). In French Law. A Latin word which was, in the ancient practice, placed at the bottom of a Judgment emanating from another tribunal, and was a permission and authority to the officer to execute it within the jurisdiction of the jud.L'e who put it below the judgment We have something of the same kind in our practice. When a warrant for the arrest of a criminal is issued by a justice of the peace of one county, and he flies into another, a justice of the county may indorse the warrant, and then the ministerial officer may execute It in such county. This is called backing a warrant. In International Law. An oflieial re t i,.11 ol a consul or commercial agent made by the foreign department el' the state to which he Is accredited, authorizing him to exercise his power. He cannot act without,i it n, ay be refused or revoked at the pleasure of the same government 3 Chit. n. 1445; Twiss, Law of Nations; 1 Halleck, Int. Law 351. EXERCITOR MARIS (Lat). In Civil Law. One who fits out and equips a vessel, whether he be the absolute or qualified owner, or even a mere agent. Emerigon, Mar. Loans, c. 1, s. 1. We call him exercitor to whom all the returns come. Dig. 14. 1. 1. 15; 14. 1. 7; 3 Kent 161; Molloy, de Jur. Mar. 243. The managing owner, or ship's husband. These are the terms in use in English and American laws, to denote the same as exercitor maris. See Ship's Husband. EXERCITORIA ACTIO (Lat). In Civil Law. An action against a managing owner {exercitor maris), founded on acts of the master. 3 Kent 161; Vicat, Voc. Jur. EXFESTUCARE (Lat). To abdicate; to resign by passing over a staff. Du Cange. To deprive one's self of the possession of lands, honors, or dignities, which was formerly accomplished by the delivery of a staff or rod. Said to be the origin of the custom of surrender as practised in England formerly in courts baron. Spelman, Gloss. See also, Vicat, Voc. Jur.; Calvinus, Lex. EXH/EREDATIO (Lat). In Civil Law. A disinheriting. The act by which a forced heir is deprived of his legitimate or legal portion. In common law, a disherison. Occurring in the phrase, in Latin pleadings, ad exliwredationem (to the disherison), in case of abatement EXH/ERES (Lat). In Civil Law. One disinherited. Vicat, Voc. Jur.; Du Cange. EXHIBERE (Lat). To present a thing corporeally, so that it may be handled. Vicat, Voc. Jur. To appear personally to conduct the defence of an action at law.

Persons who are not bound by law, but excused from the performance of duties imposed upon others.