A Law Dictionary and Glossary

I. I. In old English law. Exile or banishment; a driving out, or sending away of persons; a species of waste.

I. In old English law. To go out; to issue, as a writ

I. I. In old English law. To outlaw; to deprive of the benefit and protection of the law.

colllgitur identitas vera: from a great number of signs or marks, true identity is gathered or made up. Ex natnra rei: from the nature of the thing. Ex necessitate: of oritur [nasc

In Scots law. A discharge, or a deed by which a person is disburdened.

I. Discbarge; the discharge or unlading of a cargo.

I. I. Let him be discharged; an entry made on a bailpiece, where bail are discharged, by the surrender of the principal, or otherwise, signifying that the bail are exonerated.

The removing from, or forsaking of one's native country; the renunciation or abjuration of one's native allegiance.

To look for; to wait for; to look forward to, as to Bomething probable, intended or contemplated; to be in readiness to operate.

estate in. v. Estate in expectancy.

v. Expectancy.

Lat. It is expedient or profitable. Expedit reipublicae: it is for the interest of the state; — ne sua re quis male utatur: it is for the interest of the state that a man should no

1. 1. In old law. The service of a writ

/. In the civil law. Expenses or charges. Expenses circa fnnns: funeral expenses. Expense litis: costs of suit Experlentia per yarios actus legem facit, I. Experience, by various o

I. In the civil laxo. To sue; to ti:y one's right by law.

A pereon having skill, experience or peculiar knowledge on certain subjects, or in certain professions, who when called as a witness may testify to his opinion.

I. In the civil law. To spoil; to rob or plunder.

I. In the civil law. A robber; a spoiler or plunderer.

To come to an end; to cease; to terminate.

In Scots law. Expiration of the period within which an adjudication may be redeemed by paying the debt in the decrea

I. 2. In old English law. To gain a suit; to overcome in

explecia, explicia, II In old land. V. Explees.

I. In the civil law. A pleadiug surrejo nder of the common law.

exspoliare, I In the civil law. to deprive or take away.

To carry out; to carry out of a goods from one country to another, in the

A thing or commodity exported.

The act of exporting.

I. Explanation; interpretation. cansae nascitur, est aptissima et fortissiina interpretation which is born [or drawn] is the aptest and most forcible in the law.

expressed. Distinctly mentioned writing, as distinguished from what is abrogation: abrogation by express press assumpsit: an express undertaking. a consideration distinctly declare

I. Things or words expressed, or pressa nocent, non expressa non [may be] prejudicial; things not expressed

Z. Expression;, distinct mention pressio eorum qusB tacite insnnt nihil or express mention of those things whicli nothing. Expressio uuius est exclusio of one thing is the exclusio

expressa, I Express; expressed; pressly or distinctly mentioned. Expressum that which is expressed makes that which is, supersedes it, or controls its effect].

I. In the civil law. One who other, discharging the first debtor, and liable in liis place.

I In the civil law. To undertake view of becoming liable in his place.

I In the Roman law. To take by a new law.

/. I In old English law. To appraise or value; to lay out, survey, or make an inventory; to set off, or assign. Extendere et appreclare: to lay out and appraise. Extendere se: to a

I. I. In English law. You cause to be extended; the name of a writ of execution more commonly called an extent

An enlargement of time for the payment of debts.

I. I In old English law. An extent

I I. In old English law. Extenders or appraisers, — officers appointed to appraise and divide or apportion lands.

or extendi facias. In English law. A species of execution upon debts of record due to the crown, or due a creditor upon recognizance, statute merchant or staple, directing an appra

I. I. In old English law. An extent; an estimate or valuation, or, more properly, a survey or register of lands. Extenta manerii: the extent or survey of a manor, — the title of a

extensio, I I. In old English law. An extending, surveying or laying out of lands.

To lessen: to palliate; to mitigate.

/. A foreigner or alien; one born abroad.

Extinguished, — as a rent when it is destroyed and put out V. Extinguishment

tollitur adjnnctnm, I When the subject is extinguished, the incident ceases.

A putting an end to a thing, as an estate or right usually by consolidating or uniting it with another. Extingruishment of debt: a putting of an end to a debt as by judgment, or by

/. In old English law. To extirpate or root out; to destroy utterly, or from the foundation.

In English law. A species of destruction or waste, analogous to estrepement v. Estrepement; Extirpare.

An unlawful or violent wringing of money or money's worth from any man; the offense of taking, by color of ofl Bce, any money, or thing of value that is not due, or more than is du

I. Without; out of; beyond; except. Extra feodum: out of his fee; out of the seigniory, or not holden of him that claims it Extra judicium: out of court; notbya judicial proceeding

In Scots law. The certified copy of the proceedings in an action.

1. 1. In old English law. Extracts; estreats; profits arising from amercements. Extracta cnrise: the issues or profits of holding a court, arising from the customary dues, fees and

Delivery from one nation or state to another of a fugitive from justice, in pursuance of a law or treaty.

Not forming a part of a woman's dowry.

1. 1. In old English law. To estreat Extraxit: estreated.

I I. In old English law. An estray.

Out of the ordinary course of law, or of judicial pro-

I. In old English law. A stranger or foreigner; one who is born out of the king's dominions; a person not known. In the Soman law. An heir not subject to the power of the testator.

Not within the bounds or limits of a parish.

A fiction by which a public minister, though actually in a foreign country, is supposed still to remain within the territory of his own sovereign.

v. In extremis.

I From then; from thence; thereafter. Extunc imperpetuum: from thenceforth forever.

I To renounce one's country or native allegiance; to expatriate one's self. v. Expatriation.

I In old English law. To exile or banish. By. In old English law. A watery place or water; a place surrounded by water. A frequent termination of names of places.

eide, aide, L fr. Aid; help; relief; assistance; a subsidy.

I. fr. Have aid; have relief.

One who saw the act, fact or transaction to which he testifies.

eyne, eynesse, eyncsce, I. fr. Eldest v. Aisne.

eire, eier, eyer. In old English law. A journey; the journey or circuit of the king's justices; the court of the justices itinerant, or justices in eyre.

I fr. To travel, or journey; to go about or itinerate.

I. I. In old English law. The making or coining of money.

1. 1. In old English law. To forge; to coin; to make lawfully. Fabricavit et contrafecit: (he) forged and counterfeited.

To forge; to devise falsely; to create by artifice, with a view to deceive; as to fabricate evidence, or facts the materials of evidence.

A fact existing only in statement, without any foundation in truth; the semblance or appearance of a fact, created by design and presented as a reality; a fact tQ which a false app

Production of false and deceptive appearances; the employment of physical objects for the purpose of making false impressions and with a view to such impressions being reported in

In English law. Lands given towards the maintenance, rebuilding or repairing of cathedral and other churches.

1. In old English law. To do, to make, to act; to cause a thing to be done. v. Facio; Facit. Facere defaltam: to make default Facere duellum: to make the duel; to engage in the com

I. I You cause, — an emphatic word in various writs.

I I Doing, making or paying, — one of the apt words of reserving a rent, used in ancient deeds. Faciendo inde talla servitia: doing therefor such services.

In Scots law. Easily persuaded; easily imposed upon.

In Scots law. Pliancy of disposition,

I. In the civil law. I do that you may give, — a form of words used to express that kind of contract by which a man agrees to do a thing for a price or thing to be given him by ano

I. In old English law. He does or acts; it makes, or contributes to establish, v. Qui facit, etc.

A thing done; a circumstance, event or occurrence. Further, in the law of evidence, a physical object or appearance; a reality, as distinguished from supposition or opinion.

I. In old English law. Deeds; facts. Facta armorum: deeds or feats of arms, that is, jousts or tournaments. Facta et casus: facts and cases.

I. I. In fact; by an act; by the act or fact

A commercial agent who buys and sells goods for others on commission; in some of the states, a person in whose hands the effects of another ai-e attached for debt, otherwise called

In American law. A process like garnishment, otherwise called trustee process, by which the effects of a debtor are attached in the hands of a third person, v. l Yustee process.

In Scots laic. A power or commission given ta a factor; a power of attorney.

I. A fact; a thing done; an act or deed; the execution of a will., Factum infettum Heri uequit: a thing done cannot be undone. Factum nou dicitur quod non perseverat: that is not s

court of. In England, a court of the archbishop which grants various licenses, creates rights to pews, monuments, etc.

Power or ability. In English ecclesiastical law. A privilege granted to a man to do that which, by law, he could not do. In Scots law. A power founded on consent, as distinguished

fasting-men. In Saxon law. Pledges, sureties or bondsmen, which by custom were fast bound to answer for one another's pe?,ceable behavior.

I In old English law. A doing, — applied to services done by a tenant. In the civil law. Faetio testamenti: the right, power or capacity of making a will,^ called /aciio ac Mva; th

The failure to produce a record, after pleading it

In England, a larger sort of a market for the greater convenience of domestic trade, held at certain times of the year, either by grant from the crown, or by prescription which sup

Just; equitable; equal; proper. Fair abridgment: a real condensation of copyright matter. Fair knowledge or skill: a reasonpleader. Fair sale: a sale made fairly as it affects the

faiere, fere, fer, fr. To make or do. Faire gree: to make satisfaction. Faire la foi: to make faith; to do fealty. Faire sa ley: to make his law. Faisant, feasant: doing.