(1) The person who is asking questions of a person sworn under oath to tell the truth. In court, it is usually an attorney who is the examiner of the witness. (2) In the patent office. An officer in the patent office charged with the duty of examining the patentability of inventions for which patents are asked. The patent examiner will approve or deny a patent. (3) English law. … [Read more...] about EXAMINER
E
EXAMINERS
practice. Persons appointed to question students of law, in order to ascertain their qualifications before they are admitted to practice. Officers in the courts of chancery whose duty it is to examine witnesses, are also called examiners. … [Read more...] about EXAMINERS
EXAMPLE
An example is a case put to illustrate a. principle. Examples illustrate, but do not restrain or change the laws: illustrant non restringunt legem. … [Read more...] about EXAMPLE
EXANNUAL ROLL
In old English practice. A roll into which (in the old way of exhibiting sheriffs' accounts) the illeviable fines and desperate debts were transcribed, and which was annually read to the sheriff upon his accounting, to see what might be gotten. Cowell … [Read more...] about EXANNUAL ROLL
EX RELATIONE
Upon relation or information. Legal proceedings which are instituted by the attorney general (or other proper person) in the name and behalf of the state, but on the information and at the instigation of an individual who has a private interest in the matter, are said to be taken "on the relation" (ex relatione) of such person, who is called the ''relator." Such a cause is … [Read more...] about EX RELATIONE