Comprehensive, complete, covering an entire subject or territory extremely thoroughly. … [Read more...] about EXHAUSTIVE
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EXHEREDATE
In Scotch law. To disinherit; to exclude from an inheritance. … [Read more...] about EXHEREDATE
EXERCISE
To make use of. Thus to exercise a right or power is to do somethingwhich it enables the holder to do. … [Read more...] about EXERCISE
EXHEREDATION
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...] about EXHEREDATION
EXECUTIVE
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...] about EXECUTIVE