A reason alleged for doing or not doing a thing, worcester
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Admitting of excuse or palliation. As used in the law, this word implies that the act or omission spoken of is on its face unlawful, wrong, or liable to entail loss or disadvantage on the person charge-able, but that the circumstances attending it. were such as to constitute a legal “excuse” for lt, that is, a legal reason for withholding or foregoing the punishment, liability, or disadvantage which otherwise would follow
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In the civil law. An excuse or reason which exempts from some dnty or obligation
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A writ commanding that persons excommu-nlcated, who for their obstinacy had been committed to prison, but were unlawfully set free before they had given caution to obey the authority of the church, should be sought after, retaken, and Imprisoned again. Reg., orig. 67.
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A writ to the sheriff for delivery of an ex-communicated person out of prison, upon certificate from the ordinary of his conform-ity to the ecclesiastical jurisdiction. Fltzh. Nat Brev. 63.
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A sentence of censure prouounced by one of the spiritual courts for offenses falling under ecclesiastical cognizance. It is described in the books
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In old English law. A sluice to carry off water; the payment to the lord for the benefit of such a slulce. Cowell
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Shuttlng out; debarring from interference or participation; vested in one person alone. An exclusive right is one which only the grantee thereof can exercise, and from which all others are prohibited or shut out A statute does not grant an “ex-duslve” privilege or franchise, unless it shuts out or excludes others from enjoying a similar privilege or franchise. In re Union Ferry Co., 98 N. Y. 151
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That department of the English government whlch has charge of the collection of the national revenue; the treas-ury department
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An lnland imposition, paid sometimes upon the consumption of the com-modlty, and frequently upon the retail sale. 1 Bl. Comm. 318; Story, Const. § 950; Scholey v. Rew, 23 wall. 346, 23 L. Ed. 99; Patton v. Brady, 184 U. S. 608, 22 Sup. CL 493, 46 L. Ed. 713; Portland Bank v. Apthorp, 12 Mass. 256; Unlon Bank v. Hlll, 3 Cold. (Tenn.) 328
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Tending to or marked by excess, which is the quality or state of ez
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In old English law. A party who entered an exception or plea
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In praotioe. A formal objection to the action of the court, during the trial of a cause, in refusing a request or overruling an objection; implying that the party excepting does not acquiesce in the decision of the court, but will seek to procure its reversal, and that he means to save the benefit of his request or objection in some future proceeding. Snelling v. Vetter, 25 App. Div. 590, 49 N. Y. Supp. 917; People v. Torres, 38 Cal. 142; Norton v. Livingston,14 8. C. 178; Kline v. wynne, 10 ohlo St. 228
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Lat. with all necessary exceptions
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An exchange; a place where merchants meet to transact their busi-ness; also an equivalent in recompense; a recompense in lieu of dower ad ostium eccle-Sia
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In Scotch law. Ex-change. 1 Forb. Inst, pt 2, p. 173
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In old English practice. A roll into which (in the old way
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In Scotch law. To exchange. 6 Bell, App. Cas. 19, 22
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