Out of grace; as a matter of grace, favor, or indulgence; gratuitous. A term applied to anything accorded as a favor; as distinguished from that which may he demanded ex debito, as a matter of right … [Read more...]

Of necessity. 8 Rep. Ch. 123. Ex necessitate legis. From or by necessity of law. 4 Bl. Comm. 394. Ex necessitate rei. From the necessity or urgency of the thing or case. 2 Pow. Dev. (by Jarman,) 308. Ex nihilo nihil fit. From nothing nothing comes. Jackson v. Waldron, 13 Wend. (N. Y.) 178, 221; Root v. Stuyvesant, 18 Wend. (N. Y.) 257, 801. Ex nudo pacto non oritur [nascitur] … [Read more...]

(From or on the grievous complaint.) In old English practice. The name of a writ (so called from its initial words) which lay for a person to whom any lands or tenements in fee were devised by will, (within any city, town, or borough wherein lands were devisable by custom,) and the heir of the devisor entered and detained them from him. Fitzh. Nat Brev. 198, L, et seq.; 3 … [Read more...]

From the necessity of law. … [Read more...]

By the hypothesis; upon the supposition; upon the theory or facts assumed. "According to the hypothesis proposed." … [Read more...]