A copy of a record, public book, or register, and which has been compared with the original. 1 Campb. 469
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In English law. A – person appointed by a court to take the examb nation of witnesses in an action, i. e., to take down the result of thelr interrogation by the parties or thelr counsel, either by written in-terrogatorles or vivd voce. An examiner is generally appointed where a witness is in a foreign country, or is too 111 or infirm to attend before the court, and is either an officer of the court, or a person specially appointed for the purpose. Sweet
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L. Lat. A trial. Examen oomputi, the balance of an account Townsh. PL 223
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In tbe civU law. A gatherer or receiver of money; a collector of taxes. Cod. 10, 19
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In old English law. To raise; to elevate. Frequently spoken of wa-ter, i. e., to raise the surface of a pond or pool
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The wrongful act of an of-flcer or other person in compelling payment of a fee or reward for hls servlces, under color of hls official authority, where no payment is due
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By the dls-pensation of God; by reason of physical in-capacity. Anciently, when a prisoner, belng arraigned, stood silent lnstead of pleading, a jury was Impaneled to lnqulre whether he obstinately stood mute or was dumb ex visi-tatione Dei. 4 Steph. Comm. 394
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From sight of the writing; from having seen a person write. A term employed to describe one of the modes of proof of handwriting. Best, Pres. 218
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From or by the force of the term. From the very meanlng of the expression used. 2 Bl. Comm. 109, 115
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From the bowels. From the vital part, the very essence of the thlng. 10 Coke, 24b; Homer v. Shelton, 2 Metc. (Mass.) 213. Ex viscerlbus verborum, from the mere words and nothlng else. 1 Story, EQ. Jur. § 980; Fisher ▼. Fields, 10 Johns. (N. Y.) 495
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From, by, or un-der a will. The opposite of ab intestato, (q. v
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Related on the side of both par-ents; of the whole blood. Hale, Com. Law, c. IL
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In the clvll law. An action of stipulation. An action given to recover marriage portions. Inst. 4, ft. 29
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From or in consequence of time; by lapse of time. Bract fols. 51, 52. Ex diutumo tempore, from length of time. Id. fol. 51b
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From writings formerly seen. A term used as descriptive of that kind of proof of handwriting where the knowledge has been acquired by the witness having seen letters or other documents professing to be the handwriting of the party, and having afterwards communicated personally with the party upon the con-tents of those letters or documents, or hav-ing otherwise acted upon them by written answers, producing farther correspondence or acquiescence by the party in some matter to which they relate, or by the witness trans-acting with the party some business to which they relate, or by any other mode of communication between the party and the witness which, in the ordinary course of the trans-actions of life, Induces a reasonable presump-tlon that the letters or documents were the handwriting of the party. 5 Adol. & E. 730
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Accordlng to the statute. Fleta, llb. 6, c. 11, $ 1
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Upon relation or In-formation. Legal proceedings which are ln-stituted by the attorney general (or other proper person) in the name and behalf of the state, but on the Information and at the In-stigation of an indlvldual who has a private Interest in the matter, are said to be taken “on the relation” (ex relatione) of such person, who is called the “relator.” Such a cause is usually entitled thus: “State ex rei. Doe v. Roe.” •
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According to the rigor or strictness of law; in strictness of law. Fleta, lib. 3, c. 10, 8 3
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From quasi contract Fleta, lih. 2, c. 60
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A law passed after the occurrence of a fact or commission of an nct, which retrospectively changes the legal consequences or relations of such fact or deed. By Const. U. S. art. 1, $ 10, the Btates are forbidden to pass “any ex post facto law.” In thls connection the phrase has a much narrower meaning than^its lit* eral translation would Justlfy, as will appear from the extracts glven below
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