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Latin, meaning An execution is the end and the fruit of the law. … [Read more...] about EXECUTIO EST FINIS ET FRUCTUS LEGIS

Typically referring to a legitimate reason for a party or counsel failing to meet a required deadline, usually a filing. It is usually used to set aside a default judgment that was entered as a result of ostensible neglect, e.g. the excuse being the party or the attorney was involved in a serious accident or was gravely ill at around the time of the deadline. … [Read more...] about EXCUSABLE NEGLECT

Latin, meaning Execution of the law does no injury. … [Read more...] about EXECUTIO LEGIS NON HABET INJURIAM

A reasonable trespass that is pardonable and forgiven and does not rise to a lawsuit. … [Read more...] about EXCUSABLE TRESPASS

These words occur in the stat. 13 Ed. I. cap. 45, in the following connexion: Et...precipiatur vice comiti quod scire faciat parti... quod sit ad certum diem ostensura si quid sciat dicere quare hujustnodi irrotulata vel in fine contenta executionem habere non debeant. This statute is the origin of the scire facias post annum et diem quare executionem non, etc. To a plea in bar … [Read more...] about EXECUTIO NON