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EYE-WITNESS

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One who saw the act, fact, or transaction to which he testifies. Distinguished from an ear-witness, (auritus.) … [Read more...]

EXTRAPAROCHIAL

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Out of a parish ; not within the bounds or limits of any parish. 1 Bl. Comm. 113, 284. … [Read more...]

EXTRA-TERRITORIALITY

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The extraterritorial operation of laws; that is, their operation upon persons, rights, or jural relations, existing beyond the limits of the enacting state, but still amenable to its laws. … [Read more...]

EXTRA-DOTAL PROPERTY

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In Louisiana this term is used to designate that property which forms no part of the dowry of a woman, and which is also called paraphernal property. … [Read more...]

EXTRAVAGANTES

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canon law. This is the name given to the constitutions of the popes posterior to the Clementines; they are thus called quasi vagantes extra corpus juris, to express that they were out of the canonical law, which at first contained only the decrees of Gratian; afterwards the decretals of Gregory IX., the sexte of Boniface. VIII., the Clementines, and at last the extravagantes … [Read more...]

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