An urgency, a situation of emergency which demands immediate and necessary attention. During such times, the law may be different, such as when the police and law enforcement may have an exception to be able to conduct a search and seizure without first having obtained a warrant. … [Read more...]

In old English law. An outlaw; qui est extra legem, one who is out of the law's protection. Bract, fol. 125. Qui beneficio legis privatur. Spelman. … [Read more...]

L. Lat. In English practice. A judicial writ made use of in the process of outlawry, commanding the sheriff to demand the defendant, (or cause him to be demanded, exigi faciat) from county court to county court, until he be outlawed; or, if he appear, then to take and have him before the court on a day certain in term, to answer to the plaintiffs action. 1 Tidd, Pr. 132; 3 Bl. … [Read more...]

In French law. An act or instrument in writing which contains the reasons why a party in a civil suit, or a person accused, who has been summoned, agreeably to the requisitions of a decree, does not appear. Poth. Proc. Crim. f 3, art. 3. The same as "Essoin," (q. v.) … [Read more...]

An officer of the English court of common pleas, whose duty it was to make out the exigents and proclamations in the process of outlawry. Cowell. Abolished by St 7 Wm. IV. and 1 Vict. c. 30. Holtbouse. … [Read more...]