The name given to a record preserved among the muniments and charters belonging to the dean and chapter of Exeter Cathedral, which contains a description of the western parts of the kingdom, comprising the counties of Wilts, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall. The Exeter Domesday was published with several other surveys nearly contemporary, by order of the commissioners of … [Read more...] about EXETER DOMESDAY
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EXFESTUCARE
To abdicate or resign ; to resign or surrender an estate, office, or dignity, by the symbolical delivery of a staff or rod to the alienee. … [Read more...] about EXFESTUCARE
EXFREDIARE
To break the peace; to commit open violence. Jacob. … [Read more...] about EXFREDIARE
EXHAEREDATIO
In the civil law. Disinheriting; disherison. The formal method of excluding an indefeasible (or forced) heir from the entire inheritance, by the testator's express declaration in the will that such person shall be exhaeres. Mackeld. Rom. Law, 711. … [Read more...] about EXHAEREDATIO
EXHAERES
In the civil law. One disinherited. Vicat; Du Cange. … [Read more...] about EXHAERES