Freedom from a general duty or service; immunity from a general burden, tax, or charge. Green v. State, 59 Md. 128, 43 Am. Rep. 542; Koenig v. Rail-road Co., 3 Neb. 380; Long v. Converse, 91 0. 8. 113, 23 L. Ed. 233
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Persons who are not bound by law, but excused from the performance of duties imposed upon others
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A writ grant-ed for the exemplification or transcript of an original record. Reg. orig. 290
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In the civil law. Copy; a written authorized copy. This word is also used in the modern sense of “example,”—ad eaeemplum constituti singular es non traM, exceptional things must not be taken for ex-amples. Calvin
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For the purpose of example, or for instance. Often. abbre-vlated “ex. gr.” or “e. g.”
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An official tran-script of a document from publlc records
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In Scotch law. The mov-able estate of a person dying, which goes to hls nearest of kin. So called as falling under the distribution of an executor. BelL
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A female executor. Hardr. 165, 473. See Execotbix
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A woman who has been appointed by will to execute such will or tes-tament
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A person appointed by a testator to carry out the directions nnd re-quests in his will, and to dispose of the prop-erty according to his testamentary provisions after his decease. Scott v. Guernsey, 60
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That which is yet to be executed or performed; that which remains to be carried into operation or effect; incomplete ; depending upon a future performance or event The opposite of executed
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The name given to him who puts criminals to death, according to their sentence; a hangman
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As distinguished from the’ legislative and judicial departments of gov-ernment, the executive department is that, w’hich is charged with the detail of carrying the laws Into effect and securing their due observance. The word “executive” is also, used as an impersonal designation of the’ chief executive officer of a state or nations Comm. .v. Hall, 9 Gray (Mass.) 267, 69 Amu; Dec. 285; In re Railroad Com’rs, 15 Neb. 679, 50 N. W. 276; In re Davies, 168 N. Y. 89, 61 N. E. 118, 56 L. R. A. 855; State v, Denny, 118 Ind. 382, 21 N. E. 252, 4 L. R. A. 79. —Executive administration, or ministry.. A political term in England, applicable to the higher and responsible class of pnblic officials by whom tbe chief departments of the govern-ment of the kingdom are administered. The number of these amounts to fifty or sixty per-sons. Their tenure of office depends ou the con-fidence of a majority of the house of commons, and they are supposed to be agreed on all mat-ters of general policy except such as are specif-ically left open questions. Cab. Lawy.—Ex-ecntive officer. An officer of the executive department of government; one in whom re-sides the power to execute the laws; one whose duties are to cause the laws to be executed and obeyed. Thorne v. San Francisco. 4 Cal. 146: People v. Salsbury, 134 Mich. 537, 96 N. W. 939; Petterson v. State (Tex. Cr. App.) 58 S. W. 100
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A writ that lay for taking cattle of one who has conveyed the cattle of another out of the county, so that the sheriff cannot replevy them. Reg. Orig. 82
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A writ directed to the judge of an inferior court to do-execution upon a judgment therein, or to return some reasonable cause wherefore he de-lays the execution. Fitzh. Nat Brev. 20
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The completion, fulfill-ment, or perfecting of anything, or carrying it lnto operation and effect. The signing, sealing, and delivery of a deed. The signing and publicatlon of a will. The performance of a contract according to Its terms
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A writ commanding execution of a judgment Ob-solete. CoweU
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Completed; carried lnto full effect; already done or performed; tak-ing effect lmmediately; now in existence or in possesslon; conveying an immediate right or possession. The opposite of executory
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Lat The doing or fojlow-ing np of a thing; the doing a thing com-pletely or thoroughly; management or ad-ministration
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A permission which a bishop grants to a priest to go out of hls diocese; also leave to go out generally
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To finlsh, accomplish, make complete, fulfill. To perform; obey the in-j unctions of
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In tbe oivil law. A dil-igent prosecution of a remedy against a debt-or; the exhausting of a remedy agalnst a principal debtor, before resorting to hls sure-ties. Translated “discussion,” (q. v
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