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Category: E

  • Extent

    Definition of Extent The writ to recover debts of record due to the Crown, directed to the sheriff, who proceeded to make a valuation of the property of the debtor by means of a statement on oath of a jury. An extent in chief is a proceeding by the Crown for the recovery of a…

  • Extradition

    Definition of Extradition The delivery up of a person who has committed a crime in another country by the authorities of the country in which he has taken refuge, to the authorities of the country where the crime was committed.The law on the subject as regards this country is contained in the […]

  • Exterritoriality

    Definition of Exterritoriality A legal fiction by which certain persons and things are deemed for the purpose of jurisdiction and control to be outside the territory of the State in which they really are, and within that of some other State. Its principal applications are :(1) Sovereigns, […]

  • Eyre V. Countess Of Shaftesbury

    Definition of Eyre V. Countess Of Shaftesbury ((1722, 2 P. Wms. 103). An infant’s mother procured the marriage of a ward of Court without the consent of the gifardian. Held, that the mother was liable for a contempt’ of Court, although the marriage was in other respects proper Browse You might […]

  • Exception

    Definition of Exception A saving clause in a deed so that the thing excepted does not pass by the grant.In procedure, to except to a thing was to object to or challenge it Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Exception in the Dictionaries, Exception in […]

  • Exitus

    Definition of Exitus (1) Issue or offspring ; (2) the yearly rents and profits of lands and tenements ; and (3) a joinder of issue or close of pleadings Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Exitus in the Dictionaries, Exitus in our legal dictionaries, […]

  • Excess Profits Duty

    Definition of Excess Profits Duty A duty of inland revenue imposed from 1915 to 1921 Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Excess Profits Duty in the Dictionaries, Excess Profits Duty in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse topics from the […]

  • Exoneration

    Definition of Exoneration Relief from liability ; the relieving of one part of the estate of a testator of liability, by throwing it on another part, either by direction of the testator or by operation of law. See Locke King’s Act Browse You might be interested in these references tools: […]

  • Exchange

    Definition of Exchange Mutual transfer or conveyance of property Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Exchange in the Dictionaries, Exchange in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse topics from the European Encyclopedia of Law, Browse the […]

  • Exchequer

    Definition of Exchequer A public office, formerly consisting of two divisions, the Exchequer of Receipt, and the Court of Exchequer (q.v.). The former managed the royal revenues, receiving and keeping the moneys due to the Crown, and seeing that the payments out were made on proper authority. […]