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In old English law. The issues or profits of holding a court, arising from the customary fees, etc Source: Black’s Law Dictionary […]

Any oppression by color or pretense of right, and particularly the exaction by an officer of mouey, by color of his office, […]

A Latin preposition, occurring in many legal phrases; it means beyond, ex-cept, without, out of, outside Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

A technical word used in Indictments for extortion Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The natural meaning of the* word “extort” is to obtain money or other valuable thing either by compulsion, by actual force, or […]

A judicial writ, either before or after judgment, that lay against a person who, when a verdict waa found against him for […]

in old records. To grab woodland, and reduce it to arable or mead-ow; “to stock up.” Cowell Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd […]

The destruction or cancellation of a right, power, contract, or estate. Tbe annihilation of a collateral thing or subject in the subject […]

In English law. A species of destruction or waste, analogous to estrepement See Estoepkment Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat A foreigner or alien; one born abroad. The opposite of civis Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Extinguished. A rent is said to be extinguished when it is destroyed and put out Co. Litt. 147b. See Extinguish-MKNT Source: Black’s […]

Such as render a delict or crime less aggra-vated, heinous, or reprehensible than it would otherwise be, or teud to palliate or […]

The privilege of those persons (such as foreign ministers) who, though temporarily resident within a state, are not subject to the operation […]

(The extent or survey of a manor.) The title of a statute passed 4 Edw. I. St. 1; being a sort of […]

To lessen; to palliate; to mitigate. Connell v. State, 46 Tex. Cr. R. 259, 81 S. W. 748 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary […]

In old English law. Extenders or appraisers. The name of cer-tain officers appointed to appraise and divide or apportion lands. It was […]

In English praotioe. A Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat. You cause to be extended. In English practice. The name of a writ of execution, (derived from its two emphatic words;) […]

In mercantile law. An Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

(From ex, from, and ro-gare, to pass a law.) In Roman law. To take something from an old law by a new […]

To expand, enlarge, prolong, widen, carry ont, further than the original limit; as, to extend the time for filing an answer, to […]

one who corrects by expurging Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In Roman law. one who had filled the office of qucestor. A title given to Tribonian. Inst procem. $ 3. Used only […]

To blot out; to efface de-slgnedly; to obliterate; to strike out wholly. webster. See Cancel Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The act of purging or cleansing, as where a book is published without lts obscene passages Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]