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Demandable; requirable Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Banishment; the person batf-lshed Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

That yon cause to he demanded. The emphatic words of the Lat-ln form of the writ of exigent. They are sometimes used […]

An officer of the Eng-lish court of common pleas, whose duty it was to make out the exigents and proclamations in the […]

In English law. Ah officer who makes out exigents Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Disinterment; the removal from the earth of anything previously burled therein, particularly a human corpse Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

or EXIGENCY. Demand, want, need, imperativeness Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat Exhibition of a bill. In old English practice, actions were instituted by presenting or exhibiting a bill to the court, in […]

In Scotch law. An action for compelling the production of wrlt-ings Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

To present a thiug cor-poreally, so that it may be handled. Vicat To appear personally to conduct the defense of an action […]

A complainant in arti-cles of the peace. 12 Adol. A E. 599 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In the civil law. one dis-inherited. Vicat; Du Cange Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In Scotch law. To disinherit; to exclude from au inheritance Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

To abdicate or re-sign ; to resign or surrender an estate, office, or dignity, by the symbolical delivery of a staff or […]

To break the peace; to commit open violence. Jacob Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old European law. An army; an armed force. The term was absolutely indefinite as to number. It was applied, on various […]

The name given to a record preserved among the muniments and charters belonging to the dean and chapter of Exeter Cathedral, which […]

The trust given to a ship-master Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old English law. A heriot paid only in arms, horses, or mili-tary accouterments Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat The tem-porary owner or charterer of a ship. Mack-eld. Rom. Law, § 512; The Phebe, 19 Fed. Cas. 418 Source: Black’s […]

In the civU law. An action which lay against the employer of a vessel (exercitor navis) for the contracts made by the […]

To make use of. Thus, to exercise a right or power is to do something which it enables the holder to do. […]

A soldier; a vassal. Spelman Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old English law. A gift; a new year’s gift Cowell Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat. Let it be exe-cnted. In French practice, this term is sub-scribed by judicial authority upon a transcript of a judgment from […]