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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...] about EXOINE

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...] about EXIGENTER

Absolve from blame. … [Read more...] about EXONERATE

That you cause to be demanded. The emphatic words of the Latin form of the writ of exigent. They are sometimes used as the name of that writ … [Read more...] about EXIGI FACIAS

The taking off a burden or duty. 2. It is a rule in the distribution of an intestate's estate that the debts which he himself contracted, and for which be mortgaged his land as security, shall be paid out of the personal estate in exoneration of the real. 3. But when the real estate is charged with the payment of a mortgage at the time the intestate buys it, and the purchase is … [Read more...] about EXONERATION