practice. The act of carrying into effect the final judgment of a court, or other jurisdiction. The writ which authorizes the officer so to carry into...
By the term execution paree, which is used in Louisiana, is meant a right founded on an authentic act, that is, and passed before a notary, by which t...
The name given to him who puts criminals to death, according to their sentence, a hangman. 2. In the United States, executions are so rare that there ...
government. That power in the government which causes the laws to be executed and obeyed: it is usually. confided to the hands of the chief magistrate...
trusts. The word executor, taken in its largest sense, has several accep tations. 1. Executor dativus, who is one called an administrator to an intest...
Whatever may be executed, as an executory sentence or judgment, an executory contract....
estates. An executory devise is a limitation by will of a future contingent interest in lands, contrary to the rules of limitation of contingent estat...
via executoria. In Louisiana, this is a process which can be resorted to only in two. cases, namely: 1. When the creditors right arises-from an act im...
A trust is said to be executory where some further act is requisite to be done by the author of the trust himself or by the trustees, to give it its f...
A woman who has been appointed by. will to execute such will or testament. See Executor....
evidence. A perfect copy of a record, or office book lawfull kept, so far as relates to the matter in question. 3 Bouv. Inst. n. 3107. Vide, generally...
A privilege which dispenses with the general rule, for example, in Pennsylvania, and perhaps in all the other staies, clergymen are exempt from servin...
Persons who are not bound by law, but excused from the performance of duties imposed upon others. 2. By the Act of Congress of May 8, 1792, 1 Story, L...
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...
internat. law. A declaration made by the executive of a government near to which a consul has been nominated and appointed , after such nomination and...
A term in the civil law, to denote the person who fits out, and equips a vessel, whether he be the absolute or qualified owner, or even a mere agent. ...
civil law. The act by which a forced heir is deprived of his legitimate or legal portion which the law gives him, disinherison. (q. v.)...
practice. Where a paper or other writing is on motion, or on other occasion, proved, or if an affidavit to which the paper writing is annexed, refer t...
One who exhibits any thing, one who is complainant in articles of the peace. 12 Adol. & Ellis, 599 40 E. C. L. R. 124....
Scotch law. An action for compelling the production of writings. In Pennsylvania, a party possessing writings is compelled, to produce them on proper ...
or EXIGI FACIAS, practice. A writ issued in the course of proceedings to out lawry, deriving its name and application from the mandatory words found t...
That which may be exacted demandable, requirable....
civil law. The: interdiction of all places except one in which the party is foreed to make his residence. 2. This punishment did not deprive the suffe...
By this term is understood that kind of waste which either drove away the inhabitants into a species of exile, or had a tendency to do so, as the pros...
Issue,, child, or offspring, rents or profits of land. Cowell, h. v. In pleading, it is the issue, or the end, terminaion, or conclusion of the pleadi...
Eng. law. An officerwho makes out exigents....
French law. An act or instrument in writing, which contains the reasons why a party in a civil suit, or a person accused, who has been summoned, agree...
The taking off a burden or duty. 2. It is a rule in the distribution of an intestates estate that the debts which he himself contracted, and for which...
practice. A short note entered on a bail piece, that the bail is exonerated or discharged in consequence of having fulfilled the condition of his obli...
The voluntary act of abandoning ones country and becoming the citizen or subject of another. 2. Citizens of the United States have the right to expatr...
estates. Having a relation to or dependence upon something future. 2. Estates are of two sorts, either in possession, sometimes called estates execute...
Having relation to, or depending upon something, this word is frequently used in connexion with fee, as fee expectant....
That which may be expected, although contingent. In the doctrine of life annuities, that share or number of the years of human life which a person of ...
Expenses of the suit, the costs which are generally allowed to the successful party....
From the Latin experti,which signifies, instructed by experience. Persons who are selected by the courts or the parties in a cause on account of their...
civil law. The crime of abstracting the goods of a succession. 2. This is said not to be a theft, because the property no longer belongs to the deceas...
Cessation, end. As, the expiration of, a lease, of a contract, or statute. 2. In general, the expiration of a contract puts an end to all the engageme...
commercial law. The act of sending goods and merchandise from one country to another. 2 Mann. & Gran. 155, 3 Mann. & Gran. 959. 2. In order to preserv...
A French word, sometimes applied to a written document, containing the reasons or motives for doing a thing. The word occurs in diplomacy....
French law. The abandonment of a child, unable to take care of itself, either in a public or private place. 2. If the child thus exposed should be kil...
That which is made known, and not left to implication. The opposite of implied. It is a rule, that when a matter or thing is expressed, it ceases to b...
The term or use of language employed to explain a thing. 2. It is a general rule, that expressions shall be construed, when they are capable of severa...
civil law. The act by which a creditor accepts a new debtor, who becomes bound instead of the old, the latter being released. It is a species of novat...
civil law. By this term is understood the person who alone becomes bound for the debt of another, whether the latter were obligated or not. He differs...
The act of depriving a member of a body politic, corporate, or of a society, of his right of membership therein, by the vote of such body or society, ...
comm. law. This term is applied among merchants to signify an agreement made between a debtor and his creditors, by which the latter, in order to enab...
English practice. An exchequer process, formerly much used, and now liable to be abused, it is regulated by 57 Geo. III. o. 117....
English practice. An execution issuing out of the exchequer at the suit of the crown. It is a mere "fiscal writ. See. West on Extents, 2 Tidd. Index. ...
That which renders a crime or tort less heinous than it would be without it: it is opposed to aggravation. (q. v. ) 2. In general, extenuating circums...
This term is used by French jurists to signify the immunity of certain persons, who, although in the state, are not amenable to its laws, foreign sove...
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