EXEQUATUR, French law. This Latin word was, in the ancient practice, placed at the bottom of a judgment emanating from another tribunal, and was a per...
EXECUTORY PROCESS, via executoria. In Louisiana, this is a process which can be resorted to only in two. cases, namely: 1. When the creditor's rig...
EXECUTORY. Whatever may be executed; as an executory sentence or judgment, an executory contract.EXECUTORY DEVISE, estates. An executory devise is a l...
EXECUTOR, trusts. The word executor, taken in its largest sense, has several accep tations. 1. Executor dativus, who is one called an administrator to...
EXECUTION, practice. The act of carrying into effect the final judgment of a court, or other jurisdiction. The writ which authorizes the officer so to...
EXECUTED. Something done; something completed. This word is frequently used in connexion with others to designate a quality of such other words; as an...
EXCUSABLE HOMICIDE, crim. law. The killing of a human being, when the party killing is not altogether free from blame, but the necessity which renders...
EXCHEQUER R, Eng. law. An ancient court of record set up by William the Conqueror. It is called exchequer from the chequered cloth, resembling a chess...
EXCHANGE, com. law. This word has several significations.2. - 1. Exchange is a negotiation by which one person transfers to another funds which he has...
EXCEPTION, Eng. Eq. practice. Re-interrogation. 2 Benth. Ev. 208, n.EXCEPTION, legislation, construction. Exceptions are rules which limit the extent ...