FACTOR, contracts. An agent employed to sell goods or merchandise consigned or delivered to him by, or for his principal, for a compensation commonly ...
F, punishment, English law. Formerly felons were branded and marked with a hot iron, with this letter, on being admitted to the benefit of clergy.FACI...
EXTREMIS. When a person is sick beyond the hope of recovery, and near death, he is said to be in extremism.2. A will made in this condition, if made w...
EXTRADITION, civil law. The act of sending, by authority of law, a person accused of a crime to a foreign jurisdiction where it was committed, in'...
EXTINGUISHMENT, contracts. The destruction of a right or contract - the act by which a contract is made void.2. Art extinguishment may be by matter of...
EXTENSION, comm. law. This term is applied among merchants to signify an agreement made between a debtor and his creditors, by which the latter, in or...
EXPRESS. That which is made known, and not left to implication. The opposite of implied. It is a rule, that when a matter or thing is expressed, it ce...
EXPENSAE LITIS. Expenses of the suit; the costs which are generally allowed to the successful party.EXPERTS. From the Latin experti,which signifies, i...
EXONERATUR, practice. A short note entered on a bail piece, that the bail is exonerated or discharged in consequence of having fulfilled the condition...
EXHIBITION, Scotch law. An action for compelling the production of writings. In Pennsylvania, a party possessing writings is compelled, to produce the...