Expose

A French word, sometimes applied to a v^ritten document containing the To place in an unprotected situation. To exhibit. "Exposure for sale" implies an exhibition in a public place, not a private sale. 13 Wend. (N. Y.) 429. EXPOSITIO (Lat.) Explanation; exposition; interpretation.

A French word, sometimes applied to a written document containing the reasons or motives for doing a thing. The word occurs in diplomacy.

v. To show publicly; to display ; to offer to the public view; as, to "expose" goods to sale, to "expose" a tariff or scheduie of rates, to "expose" the person. Boynton v. Page, 13 Wend. (N. Y.) 432; Comin. v. Byrnes, 158 Mass. 172, 33 N. E. 343; Adams Exp. Co.. v. Schlesslnger, 75 Pa. 246; Centre Turnpike Co. v. Smith, 12 Vt. 216. To place in a position where the object spoken of is open to danger, or where it ls near or accessible to anything which may affect it detrimentally; as, to "expose" a child, or to expose oneself or another to a contagious disease or to danger or hazard of any kind. In re Smith, 146 N. Y. 68, 40 N. E. 497, 28 L. R. A. 820, 48 Am. St. Rep. 769; Davis v. Insurance Co., 81 Iowa, 496, 48 N. W. 1073, 10 In R. A. 359, 25 Am. St Rep. 509; Miller v. Insurance Co., 39 Minn. 548, 40 N. W. 839.

o. To show publicly; to exhibit. EXPOS &, nm. «Fr. A statement; account; recital; explanation. The term is used in diplomatic language aa descriptive of a written explanation of the reasons for a ceriuin act or course of conduct.

To set out, bring into view; display, exhibit; show: as, to expose property to sale,* to expose the person.s See Indecent.