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Exile

Defined in 6 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Black's (1891), Burrill (1850), Bouvier (1839)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

Banishment; a person banished. EXILIUM (Lat.)

In old English law. Exile; setting free or wrongly ejecting bondtenants. Waste is called exilium when bondmen {servi) are set free or driven wrongfully from their tenements. Co. Litt. 536. Destruction; waste. Du Cange. Any species of waste which drove away the inhabitants ipto exile, or had a tendency to do so. Bac. Abr. "Waste" (A); 1 Reeve, Hist. Eng. 386.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

To banish; one banished.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Banishment; the person banished.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

Banishment; the person banished.

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

[Lat. exilium.] Banishment; a driving out or sending away of persons; a species of waste committed by manumitting or ejecting tenants; or so excessive in itself as to have the effect of driving them away. See Exilium.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States

John Bouvier · 1839

civil law, is the interdiction of all places except one in which the party is forced to make his residence. This punishment did not deprive the sufferer of his right of citizenship, or of his property, unless the exile should have been perpetual, in which case confiscation might have been part of the sentence. Exile was temporary or perpetual. Dig. 48, 22, 4; Code, 10, 59, 2. Exile differs from deportation, (q. v.) and relegation, (qv.) Vide 2 Lev. 191.