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Extent in chief
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Extent in chiefEnglish practice. An execution issuing out of the exchequer at the suit 'of the crown. It is a mere "fiscal writ.
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Practice
The form, manner and order of conducting and carrying on suits or prosecutions in the courts through their various stages, according, to the principles of law, and the rules laid down by the respective courts.
Execution
1) Contracts. The accomplishment of a thing; as the execution of a bond and warrant of attorney, which is the signing, sealing, and delivery of the same. 2) Criminal law. The putting a convict to death, agreeably to law, in pursuance of his sentence.
Suit
An action. The word suit in the 25th section of the judiciary act of 1789, applies to any proceeding in a court of justice, in which the plaintiff pursues, in such court, the remedy which the law affords him. An application for a prohibition is therefore a suit.
Crown
A covering for the head, commonly used by kings; figuratively, it signifies royal authority.
Mere
This is the French word for mother. It is frequently used as, in ventre sa mere, which signifies; a child unborn, or in the womb.
Writ
An official court document, signed by a judge or bearing an official court seal, which commands the person to whom it is addressed, to do something specific. That "person" is typically either a sheriff (who may be instructed to seize property, for example) or a defendant (for whom the writ is the first notice of formal legal action. In these cases, the writ would command the person to answer the charges laid out in the suit, or else judgment may be made against them in their absence).
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Extension
Common law. This term is applied among merchants to signify an agreement made between a debtor and his creditors, by which the latter, in order to enable the former, embarrassed in his circumstances, to retrieve his standing, agree to wait for a definite length of time after their several claims should become due and payable, before they will demand payment.
Extent in aid
English practice. An exchequer process, formerly much used, and now liable to be abused;
Extenuation
That which renders a crime or tort less heinous than it would be without it: it is opposed to aggravation.
Exterritoriality
This term is used by French jurists to signify the immunity of certain persons, who, although in the state, are not amenable to its laws; foreign sovereigns, ambassadors, ministers plenipotentiary, and ministers from a foreign power, are of this class.
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Expropriation
Canada: the forced sale of land to a public authority. Synonymous to the USA doctrine of "eminent domain".
Expunge
To physically erase; to white or strike out. To "expunge" something from a court record means to remove every reference to it from the court file.
Expungement
The process by which the record of criminal conviction is destroyed or sealed.
Extension
Common law. This term is applied among merchants to signify an agreement made between a debtor and his creditors, by which the latter, in order to enable the former, embarrassed in his circumstances, to retrieve his standing, agree to wait for a definite length of time after their several claims should become due and payable, before they will demand payment.
Extent in aid
English practice. An exchequer process, formerly much used, and now liable to be abused;
Extent in chief
Extenuation
That which renders a crime or tort less heinous than it would be without it: it is opposed to aggravation.
Exterritoriality
This term is used by French jurists to signify the immunity of certain persons, who, although in the state, are not amenable to its laws; foreign sovereigns, ambassadors, ministers plenipotentiary, and ministers from a foreign power, are of this class.
Extinction of a thing
When a thing which is the subject of a contract has been destroyed, the contract is of course rescinded as, for example, if Paul sell his horse Napoleon to Peter, and promises to deliver him to the buyer in ten days, and in the mean time the horse dies, the contract is rescinded, as it is impossible to deliver a thing which is not in esse; but if Paul engage to deliver a horse to Peter in ten days, and, for the purpose of fulfilling his contract, he buys a horse and it die, this is no cause for rescinding the contract, because he can buy another and complete it afterwards. When the subject of the contract is an individual, and not generally one of a species, the contract may be rescinded; when it is one of a species which has been destroyed, then, it may still be completed, and it will be enforced.
Extorsively
A technical word used in indictments for extortion. In North Carolina, it seems, the crime of extortion may be charged without using this word.
Extortion
Crimes. In a large sense it, signifies any oppression, under color of right: but in a more strict sense it means the unlawful taking by any officer, by color of his office, of any money or thing of value that is not due to him, or more than is due, or before it is due.
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Practice
The form, manner and order of conducting and carrying on suits or prosecutions in the courts through their various stages, according, to the principles of law, and the rules laid down by the respective courts.
Execution
1) Contracts. The accomplishment of a thing; as the execution of a bond and warrant of attorney, which is the signing, sealing, and delivery of the same. 2) Criminal law. The putting a convict to death, agreeably to law, in pursuance of his sentence.
Suit
An action. The word suit in the 25th section of the judiciary act of 1789, applies to any proceeding in a court of justice, in which the plaintiff pursues, in such court, the remedy which the law affords him. An application for a prohibition is therefore a suit.
Crown
A covering for the head, commonly used by kings; figuratively, it signifies royal authority.
Mere
This is the French word for mother. It is frequently used as, in ventre sa mere, which signifies; a child unborn, or in the womb.
Writ
An official court document, signed by a judge or bearing an official court seal, which commands the person to whom it is addressed, to do something specific. That "person" is typically either a sheriff (who may be instructed to seize property, for example) or a defendant (for whom the writ is the first notice of formal legal action. In these cases, the writ would command the person to answer the charges laid out in the suit, or else judgment may be made against them in their absence).
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Extension
Common law. This term is applied among merchants to signify an agreement made between a debtor and his creditors, by which the latter, in order to enable the former, embarrassed in his circumstances, to retrieve his standing, agree to wait for a definite length of time after their several claims should become due and payable, before they will demand payment.
Extent in aid
English practice. An exchequer process, formerly much used, and now liable to be abused;
Extenuation
That which renders a crime or tort less heinous than it would be without it: it is opposed to aggravation.
Exterritoriality
This term is used by French jurists to signify the immunity of certain persons, who, although in the state, are not amenable to its laws; foreign sovereigns, ambassadors, ministers plenipotentiary, and ministers from a foreign power, are of this class.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Expropriation
Canada: the forced sale of land to a public authority. Synonymous to the USA doctrine of "eminent domain".
Expunge
To physically erase; to white or strike out. To "expunge" something from a court record means to remove every reference to it from the court file.
Expungement
The process by which the record of criminal conviction is destroyed or sealed.
Extension
Common law. This term is applied among merchants to signify an agreement made between a debtor and his creditors, by which the latter, in order to enable the former, embarrassed in his circumstances, to retrieve his standing, agree to wait for a definite length of time after their several claims should become due and payable, before they will demand payment.
Extent in aid
English practice. An exchequer process, formerly much used, and now liable to be abused;
Extent in chief
Extenuation
That which renders a crime or tort less heinous than it would be without it: it is opposed to aggravation.
Exterritoriality
This term is used by French jurists to signify the immunity of certain persons, who, although in the state, are not amenable to its laws; foreign sovereigns, ambassadors, ministers plenipotentiary, and ministers from a foreign power, are of this class.
Extinction of a thing
When a thing which is the subject of a contract has been destroyed, the contract is of course rescinded as, for example, if Paul sell his horse Napoleon to Peter, and promises to deliver him to the buyer in ten days, and in the mean time the horse dies, the contract is rescinded, as it is impossible to deliver a thing which is not in esse; but if Paul engage to deliver a horse to Peter in ten days, and, for the purpose of fulfilling his contract, he buys a horse and it die, this is no cause for rescinding the contract, because he can buy another and complete it afterwards. When the subject of the contract is an individual, and not generally one of a species, the contract may be rescinded; when it is one of a species which has been destroyed, then, it may still be completed, and it will be enforced.
Extorsively
A technical word used in indictments for extortion. In North Carolina, it seems, the crime of extortion may be charged without using this word.
Extortion
Crimes. In a large sense it, signifies any oppression, under color of right: but in a more strict sense it means the unlawful taking by any officer, by color of his office, of any money or thing of value that is not due to him, or more than is due, or before it is due.
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