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Vexari

Defined in 2 dictionaries — Black's (1910), Anderson (1889)

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Lat To be harassed, vexed or annoyed; to be prosecuted; as in the maxim, Nemo debet bis vexari pro una et eadem causa, no one should be twice prosecuted for one and the same cause.

A Dictionary of Law

William C. Anderson · 1889

To shake: to molest, annQ,y, trouble, prosecute, vex, q. v. ' Fairfax v. Brown, 60 Md. 60 (1883), cases; 50 Mich. 399; 38 Ohio St, 365. !> Constitution, Art. I, sec. 7, cl. 2. » Cooley, Princ. Const. Law, 50, 160-63: 1 Webster's Nemo debet bis vexari pro uno at eadem causa. No person should twice be prosecuted for one and the same cause. No second suit can be maintained over a matter once faii'ly adjudicated. ^ No person shall be twice put in jeopardy. See Adjudication, Former; Estoppel, By record; Jeop-