out of fraud; out of deceitful or tortious conduct. A phrase applied to obligations and causes of action vitiated by fraud or deceit
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From fail: ( ure of blood; for want of issue
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From a delict, tort, fault, crime, or malfeasance. In both the civil and the common law, obligations and causes of action are divided into two great classes,—those arising ex contractu, (out of a contract,) and those cx delicto. The lat-ter are such as grow out of or are founded
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From or as a debt of justice; in accordance with the re-qulrement of justice; of right; as a matter of right The opposite of ex gratia, (q. v.) 3 Bl. Comm. 48, 67
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Immediately; without any Interval or delay; incontinently. A term of the civil law. Calvin
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From or out of a contract In both the civil and the common law, rlghts and causes of actlon are divided Into tvfro classes,—those arising ex contractu, (from a contract,) and those arising ex delicto, (from a delict or tort.) See 3 Bl. Comm. 117; Mackeld. Rom. Law, $ 384. See Scharf
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From the premises granted. According to what has been already allowed
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From or out of. loan. A term applied in the old law of Eng-land to a right of action arising out of a loan, (oommodatum.) Glanv. llb. 10, c. 13; 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 166
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By a comparison of writings or handwritings. A term in the law of evidence. Best, Pres. 218.
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By color; under color of; under pretense, show, or protection of. Thus, ex colore officii, under color of office
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of certain or sure knowledge. These words were ancient-ly used In patents, and imported full knowl-edge of the subject-matter on the part of the king. See 1 Coke, 40b
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of the goods or property. A term of the civil law; dlstlngulshed from fn bonis, as being descriptive of or applicable to property not in actual possession. Calvin
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From the chair, originally applled to the declslons of the
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By or with the consent of the father. A species of dower ad ostium ecclesia, during the life of the father of the husband; the son, by the fa-ther’s consent expressly given, endowing his wife with parcel of his father’s lands. Abol-ished by 3 & 4 wm. IV. c. 105, { 13
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with his assent Formal words in judgments for damages by default Comb. 220
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TATE. According, to equlty; in equity. Fleta, llb. 3, c. 10, $ 3
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A phrase de-rlved from the clvil law, meaning, in Jus-tlce and falrness; accordlng to w’hat is Just and good; according to equity and conscience. 3 Bl. Comm. 163
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Lat. out of abundant cautlon. “The practice has arisen abundanti cautcla.” 8 East, 326; Lord Ellenborongh, 4 Maule & S. 544
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