Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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EXPEDITATE. In forest law. To cut out the ball of a dog's forefeet, for the pres ervation of the royal game. EXPEDITATION. A cutting off the claws or ball of the forefeet of mastiffs, to prevent their running after deer. Spelman; Cowell. EXPEDITIO. An expedition; an irreg ular kind of army. Spelman. EXPEDITIO BREVIS. In old practice. The service of a writ. Townsh. PI. 43. EXPENDITORS. Paymasters. Those who expend or disburse certain taxes. Es pecially the sworn officer who supervised the repairs of the banks of the canals in Romney Marsh. Cowell. EXPENSiE LITIS. Costs or expenses of the suit, which are generally allowed to the successful party. EXPENSIS MILITUM NON LE VANDIS. An ancient writ to prohibit the sheriff from levying any allowance for knights of the shire upon those who held lands in ancient demesne. Reg. Orig. 261. Experientia per varios actus legem facit. Magistra rerum experientia. Co. Litt. 60. Experience by various acts makes law. Experience is the mistress of things. EXPERTS. Persons examined as wit nesses in a cause, who testify in regard to some professional or technical matter arising in the case, and who are permitted to give their opinions as to such matter on account of their special training, skill, or familiarity with it. Persons selected by the court or parties in a cause, on account of their knowledge or skill, to examine, estimate, and ascertain things and make a report of their opinions. Merl. Report. Persons professionally acquainted with the sci ence or practice in question. Strick. Ev. 408. Persons conversant with the subject-matter on questions of science, skill, trade, and others of like kind. Best, Ev. § 846. An expert is a person who possesses peculiar skill and knowledge upon the subject-matter that he is required to give an opinion upon. 48 Vt. 366. An expert is a skillful or experienced person; a person having skill or experience, or peculiar knowledge on certain subjects, or in certain pro fessions; a scientific witness. 45 Me. 392; 52 Me. 68. EXPILARE. In the civil law. To spoil; to rob or plunder. Applied to inheritances. Dig. 47, 19; Cod. 9, 32.

EXPILATIO. In the civil law. The offense of unlawfully appropriating goods belonging to a succession. It is not technic ally thett (furtum) because such property no longer belongs to the decedent, nor to the heir, since the latter has not yet taken pos session. EXPIL A.TOR. In the civil law. A rob ber; a spoiler or plunderer. Expila tores sunt atrociores fures. Dig. 47, 18, 1, 1. EXPIRATION. Cessation; termination from mere lapse of time; as the expiration of a lease, or statute, and the like. EXPIRY OP THE LEGAL. In Scotch law and practice. Expiration of the period within which an adjudication may be re deemed, by paying the debt in the decree of adjudication. Bell. EXPLEES. See ESPLEES. EXPLETA, EXPLETIA, or EXPLE CIA. In old records. The rents and profits of an estate. EXPLICATIO. In the civil law. The fourth pleading; equivalent to the surre joinder of the common law. Calvin. EXPLORATOR. A scout, huntsman, or chaser. EXPLOSION. A sudden and rapid com bustion, causing violent expansion of the air, and accompanied by a report. The word "explosion" is variously used in ordi nary speech, and is not one that admits of exact definition. Every combustion of an explosive sub stance, whereby other property is ignited and con sumed, would not be an "explosion," within the ordinary meaning of the term. It is not used as a synonym of "combustion." An explosion may be described generally as a sudden and rapid com bustion, causing violent expansion of the air, and accompanied by a report. But the rapidity of the combustion, the violence of the expansion, and the vehemence of the report vary in intensity as often as the occurrences multiply. Hence an explosion is an idea of degrees; and the true meaning of the word, in each particular case, must be settled, not by any fixed standard or accurate measurement, but by the common experience and notions of men in matters of that sort. 22 Ohio St. 340. EXPORT, v. To send, take, or carry an article of trade or commerce out of the coun try. To transport merchandise from one country to another in the course of trade. To carry out or convey goods by sea. Vaughn, 171, 172; 5 Harr. 501. EXPORT, n. A thing or commodity exported. More commonly used in the plu ral.

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