That yon cause to he demanded. The emphatic words of the Lat-ln form of the writ of exigent. They are sometimes used as the name of that writ
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An officer of the Eng-lish court of common pleas, whose duty it was to make out the exigents and proclamations in the process of outlawry. Cowell. Abolished by SL 7 wm. IV. and 1 Vict. C. 30. Holthouse
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In English law. Ah officer who makes out exigents
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Disinterment; the removal from the earth of anything previously burled therein, particularly a human corpse
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or EXIGENCY. Demand, want, need, imperativeness
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Lat Exhibition of a bill. In old English practice, actions were instituted by presenting or exhibiting a bill to the court, in cases where the pro-ceedings were by bill; hence this phrase is equivalent to “commencement of the suit
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In Scotch law. An action for compelling the production of wrlt-ings
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To present a thiug cor-poreally, so that it may be handled. Vicat To appear personally to conduct the defense of an action at law
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A complainant in arti-cles of the peace. 12 Adol. A E. 599
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In the civil law. one dis-inherited. Vicat; Du Cange
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In Scotch law. To disinherit; to exclude from au inheritance
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To abdicate or re-sign ; to resign or surrender an estate, office, or dignity, by the symbolical delivery of a staff or rod to the alienee
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To break the peace; to commit open violence. Jacob
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In old European law. An army; an armed force. The term was absolutely indefinite as to number. It was applied, on various occasions, to a gathering of forty-two armed men, of thirty-five, or even of four. Spelman
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The name given to a record preserved among the muniments and charters belonging to the dean and chapter of Exeter Cathedral, which con-tains a description of the western parts of the kingdom, comprising the counties of wilts, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, and Corn-wall. The Exeter Domesday was published with several other surveys nearly contem-porary, by order of the commissioners of the public records, under the direction of Sir Henry Ellis, in a volume supplementary to the Great Domesday, folio, London, 1816. wharton
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In old English law. A heriot paid only in arms, horses, or mili-tary accouterments
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Lat The tem-porary owner or charterer of a ship. Mack-eld. Rom. Law, § 512; The Phebe, 19 Fed. Cas. 418
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In the civU law. An action which lay against the employer of a vessel (exercitor navis) for the contracts made by the master. Inst. 4, 7, 2; 3 Kent, Comm. 161. Mackeld. Rom. Law, ■S 512
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To make use of. Thus, to exercise a right or power is to do something which it enables the holder to do. U. S. v. Souders, 27 Fed. Cas. 1267; Cleaver v. Comm., 34 Pa. 284; Branch v. Glass works, 96 Ga. 573, 23 S. E. 128
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In old English law. A gift; a new year’s gift Cowell
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Lat. Let it be exe-cnted. In French practice, this term is sub-scribed by judicial authority upon a transcript of a judgment from a foreign country, or from another part of France, and author-■ izes the execution of the judgment within the jurisdiction where it is so indorsed
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