Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

EXHIBIT

EXEMPTION LAWS

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tlebtor, by which he may hold property to a certain amount, or certain classes of property, free from all liability to levy and sale on exe cution or attachment. EXEMPTION LAWS. Laws which provide that a certain amount or proportion of a debtor's property shall be exempt from execution. EXEMPTION, WORDS OF. It is a maxim of law that words of exemption are not to be construed to import any liability; the maxim expressio unius exclusio alterius, or its converse, exclusio unius inclusio alterius, not applying to such a case. For example, an exemption of the crown from the bankruptcy act 1869, in one specified par ticular, would not inferentially subject .the crown to that act in any other particular. Brown. EXEMPTS. Persons who are not bound by law, but excused from the performance of duties imposed upon others. EXENNIUM. In old English law. A gift; a new year's gift. Coweil. EXEQUATUR. Lat. Let it be exe cuted. In French practice, this term is sub scribed by judicial authority upon a tran script of a judgment from a foreign country, or from another part of France, and author izes the execution of the judgment within the jurisdiction where it is so indorsed. In international law. A certificate is sued by the foreign department of a state to a consul or commercial agent of another state, recognizing his official character, and authorizing him to fulfill his duties. EXERCISE. To make use of. Thus, to exercise a right or power is to do something •Spelman. EXERCITOR NAVIS. The temporary owner or charterer of a ship. EXERCITORIA ACTIO. In the civil law An action which lay against the em ployer of a vessel (easercitor navis) for the contracts made by the master. Inst. 4, 7, 2; 3 Kent, Comm. 161. EXERCITORIAL POWER. The trust given to a ship-master. EXERCITUAL. In old English law. A heriot paid only in arms, horses, or mili iary accouterments. which it enables the holder to do. EXERCITALIS. A soldier; vassal.

EXERCITUS. In old European law. An army; an armed force. A collection of thirty-five men and upwards. A gathering of forty-two armed men* A meeting of four men. Spelman. EXETER DOMESDAY. The name given to a record preserved among the muni ments and charters belonging to the dean and chapter of Exeter Cathedral, which con tains a description of the western parts of the kingdom, comprising the counties of Wilts, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall. The Exeter Domesday was published with several other surveys nearly contemporary, by order of the commissioners of the public records, under the direction of Sir Henry Ellis, in a volume supplementary to the Great Domes day, folio, London, 1816. Wharton. EXFESTUCARE. To abdicate or re sign; to resign or surrender an estate, office, or dignity, by the symbolical delivery of a staff or rod to the alienee. EXFREDIARE. To break the peace; to commit open violence. Jacob. EXILSJREDATIO. In the civil law. Dis inheriting; disherison. The formal method of excluding an indefeasible (or forced) hen from the entire inheritance, by the testator's express declaration in the will that such per son shall be exhares. Mackeld. Bom. Law, §711. EXH2ERES. In the civil law. One dis inherited. Vicat; Du Cange. EXHEREDATE. In Scotch law. To disinherit; to exclude from an inheritance. EXHIBERE. To present a thing cor poreally, so that it may be handled. Vicat. To appear personally to conduct the defense of an action at law. EXHIBIT, v. To show or display; to offer or present for inspection. To produce anything in public, so that it may be taken into possession. Dig. 10, 4, 2. To present; to offer publicly or officially; to file of record. Thus we speak of exhibit ing a charge of treason, exhibiting a bill against an officer of the king's bench by way of proceeding against him in that court. To administer; to cause to be taken; as medicines. EXHIBIT, n. A paper or document pro duced and exhibited to a court during a trial or hearing, or to a commissioner taking depositions, or to auditors, arbitrators, etc.,

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