KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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made In form to be used as evidence, and authenticated as a true copy. EXEMPLIFICATIONS. A writ grant ed for the exemplification or transcript of an original record. Reg. Orig. 290. EXEMPLUM. In the civil law. Copy; a written authorized copy. This word is also used in the modern sense of "example,"— ad exemplum constituti singulares non trahi, exceptional things must not be taken for ex amples. Calvin. EXEMPT, v. To relieve, excuse, or set free from a duty or service imposed upon the general class to which the individual exempt ed belongs; as to exempt from militia serv ice. See 1 St at Large, 272. To relieve certain classes of property from liability to sale on execution. EXEMPT, ». One who is free from lia bility to military service; as distinguished from a detail, who is one belonging to the army, but detached or set apart for the time to some particular duty or service, and liable, at any time, to be recalled to his place in the ranks. In re Strawbridge, 39 Ala. 379. EXEMPTION. 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 U. S. 113, 23 L. Ed. 233. A privilege allowed by law to a judgment debtor, by which he may hold property to a certain amount, or certain classes of property, free from all liability to levy and sale on ex ecution or attachment. Turrill v. McCarthy, 114 Iowa, 681, 87 N. W. 667; Williams v. Smith, 117 Wis. 142, 93 N. W. 464. —Exemption, laws. Laws which provide that a certain amount or proportion of a debtor's property shall be exempt from execution.—Ex emption, -words of. It is a maxim of law that words of exemption are not to be construed to import any liability^ the maxim expressto unius exclusio altertus, or its converse, exclusio uniu8 inclusio altertus, not applying to such a case. For example, an exemption of the crown from the bankruptcy act 1869, in one specified particular, 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 Cowell. 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 which it enables the holder to do. U. S. v. Souders, 27 Fed. Cas. 1267; Cleaver v. Comm., 34 Pa. 284; Branch v. Glass Works, 95 Ga. 573, 23 S. E. 128. EXERCITAXIS. A soldier; a vassal. Spelman. EXERCITOR NAVIS. Lat. The tem porary owner or charterer of a ship. Mack eld. Rom. Law, § 512; The Phebe, 19 Fed. Cas. 418. EXERCITORIA ACTIO. In the civil law. An action which lay against the em ployer of a vessel (exercitor navis) for the contracts made by the master. Inst. 4, 7, 2; 3 Kent Comm. 161. Mackeld. Rom. Law, I 512. EXERCITORIAL POWER. The trust given to a ship-master. In old English law. A heriot paid only in arms, horses, or mili tary accouterments. EXERCITUS. In old European law. An army; an armed force. The term was ab solutely indefinite as to number. It was applied, on various occasions, to a gathering of forty-two armed men, of thirty-five, or even of four. Spelman. EXETER DOMESDAY. The name given to a record preserved among the muniments 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 Corn wall. The Exeter Domesday was published with several other surveys nearly contem porary, by order of the commissioners of the public records, under the direction of Sir Henry Ellis, in a volume supplementary to the Great Domesday, 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. EXR^SREDATIO. In the civil law. Dis inheriting; disherison. The formal method of excluding an indefeasible (or forced) heir EXERCITUAL.