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EXHAUSTIVE

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Comprehensive, complete, covering an entire subject or territory extremely thoroughly. … [Read more...]

EXHEREDATE

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In Scotch law. To disinherit; to exclude from an inheritance. … [Read more...]

EXERCISE

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To make use of. Thus to exercise a right or power is to do somethingwhich it enables the holder to do. … [Read more...]

EXHEREDATION

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civil law. The act by which a forced heir is deprived of his legitimate or legal portion which the law gives him; disinherison. … [Read more...]

EXECUTIVE

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As distinguished from the legislative and judicial departments of government, the executive department is that which is charged with the detail of carrying the laws into effect and securing their due observance. The word "executive" is also used as an impersonal designation of the chief executive officer of a state or nation. Comm. .v. Hall, 9 Gray (Mass.) 267, 69 Am: Dec. 285; … [Read more...]

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