Exequatur

Lat. Let it be executed. In French practice, this term is subscribed by judiclal authority upon a transcript of a judgment from a foreign country or from another part of France, and authorizes the execution of the judgment within the jurisdiction where it is so indorsed.

In international law. A certificate issued by the foreign department of a state to a consul or commercial agent of another state, recognising his official character, and authorizing him to fulfill his duties.

I. Let him execute or perform his office; the official recognition of a person in the character of consul or commercial agent

Lat. Let it be exeeuted, In French practice, this term is subserihed by judicial authority upon a transcript of a judginent from a foreign country, or from another part of France, and authorizes the execution of the judgment within the jurisdiction where it is so indorsed, in international law. A certificate Issued by the foreign department of a state to n consul or commercial agent of another state, recognizing his official character, and authorizing him to fulfill his duties,

/. An order for the home department to recognize a consul or commercial agent of

Lat. (Let him execute or perform his office.) The official recognition of a person in the character of consul or commercial agent, authorizing him to exercise his power. Wharton's Lex,

French law. This latin word 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 judge 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 latter county may endorse the warrant and then the ministerial ofhcer may execute it in such county. This is called backtng a warrant. executive of a government near to which a consul has been nominated and appointed, after such nomination and appointment has been notified, addressed to the people, in which is recited the appointment of the foreign state, and that the executive having approved of the consul, as such commands all the citizens to receive, countenance, and, as there may be occasion, favourably assist the consul in the exercise of his place, giving and allowing him all the privileges, immunities, and advantages, thereto belonging. 3 Chit. Com. Law, 56; 3 Maule & Selw. 290; 5 Pardes. n. 1445.