In old English law. The issues or profits of holding a court, arising from the customary fees, etc
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Any oppression by color or pretense of right, and particularly the exaction by an officer of mouey, by color of his office, either when none at all is due, or not so much is due, or when it is not yet due. Preston v. Bacon, 4 Conn. 480
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A Latin preposition, occurring in many legal phrases; it means beyond, ex-cept, without, out of, outside
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A technical word used in Indictments for extortion
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The natural meaning of the* word “extort” is to obtain money or other valuable thing either by compulsion, by actual force, or by the force of motives applled to the wlll. and often more overpowering and lrresi8tlble than physical force. Com. v. o’Brien, 12 Cush. (Mass.) 90. See Ex-tobtion
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A judicial writ, either before or after judgment, that lay against a person who, when a verdict waa found against him for land, etc., maliciously overthrew any house or extirpated aay trees upon it Reg. Jud. 13, 56
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in old records. To grab woodland, and reduce it to arable or mead-ow; “to stock up.” Cowell
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The destruction or cancellation of a right, power, contract, or estate. Tbe annihilation of a collateral thing or subject in the subject itself out of which it is derived. Prest. Merg. 9. For the distinction between an extinguishment and passing a right, see 2 Share. Bl. Comm. 325, note
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In English law. A species of destruction or waste, analogous to estrepement See Estoepkment
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Lat A foreigner or alien; one born abroad. The opposite of civis
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Extinguished. A rent is said to be extinguished when it is destroyed and put out Co. Litt. 147b. See Extinguish-MKNT
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Such as render a delict or crime less aggra-vated, heinous, or reprehensible than it would otherwise be, or teud to palliate or lessen lts guilt Such circumstances may or-
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The privilege of those persons (such as foreign ministers) who, though temporarily resident within a state, are not subject to the operation of its laws
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(The extent or survey of a manor.) The title of a statute passed 4 Edw. I. St. 1; being a sort of dl-rectlon for making a survey or terrier of a manor, and all its appendages. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 140
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To lessen; to palliate; to mitigate. Connell v. State, 46 Tex. Cr. R. 259, 81 S. W. 748
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In old English law. Extenders or appraisers. The name of cer-tain officers appointed to appraise and divide or apportion lands. It was thelr duty to make a survey, schedule, or inventory of the lands, to lay them out under certain heads, and then to ascertain the value of each, as preparatory to the division or partition. Bract fols. 72b, 75; Britt, c. 71
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Lat. You cause to be extended. In English practice. The name of a writ of execution, (derived from its two emphatic words;) more commonly called an “extent.” 2 Tidd, Pr. 1043; 4 Steph, Comm. 43
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(From ex, from, and ro-gare, to pass a law.) In Roman law. To take something from an old law by a new law. Tayl. Civil Law, 155
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To expand, enlarge, prolong, widen, carry ont, further than the original limit; as, to extend the time for filing an answer, to extend a lease, term of ofHce, charter, railroad track, etc. Flagler v. Hearst. 62 App. Dlv. 18. 70 N. Y. Supp. 956; Gouldlng v. Hammond, 54 Fed. 642. 4 C. C. A. 533; State v. Scott. 113 Mo. 559, 20 8. W. 1076; James v. McMillan, 55 Mich. 136, 20 N. W. 826: wilson v. Rousseau, 4 How. 697. Il L. Ed. 1141; orton v. Noonan, 27 wls. 272; Moers v. Reading, 21 Pa. 201; People v. New York & H. R. Co., 45 Barb. (N Y.) 73. To extend a street means to pro-long and continue it in the direction in which it already points, but does not lnclude deflecting it from the course of the existing portion. Monroe v. ouachita Parish, 47 La. Aun. 1061, 17 South. 498; In re Charlotte St., 23 Pa. 288; Seattle & M. Ry. Co. v. State, 7 wash. 150, 34 Pac. 551, 22 L. R. A. 217,88 Am. St. Rep. 866
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In Roman law. one who had filled the office of qucestor. A title given to Tribonian. Inst procem. $ 3. Used only in the ablative case, (exqucestore
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To blot out; to efface de-slgnedly; to obliterate; to strike out wholly. webster. See Cancel
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The act of purging or cleansing, as where a book is published without lts obscene passages
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