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Out of fraud; out of deceitful or tortious conduct. A phrase applied to obligations and causes of action vitiated by fraud or deceit. Ex dolo malo non oritur actio. Out of fraud no action arises; fraud never gives a right of action. No court will lend its aid to a man who founds his cause of action upon an immoral or illegal act. Cowp. 343; Broom, Max. 729. Ex donationibus … [Read more...] about EX DOLO MALO

From or out of lease or letting. A term of the civil law, applied to actions or rights of action arising out of the contract of locatum, (q. v.) Inst. 4, 6, 28. Adopted at an early period in the law of England. Bract, fol. 102; 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 168. … [Read more...] about EX LOCATO

An motion made by the moving party and without notice being given to or the presense of the opposing party to oppose the motion. … [Read more...] about EX PARTE MOTION

Latin, meaning A right of action cannot arise out of fraud. … [Read more...] about EX DOLO MALO ACTIO NON ORITUR

Growing out of, or founded upon, misdoing or tort. This term is frequently used in the civil law as the synonym of "ex delicto" (q. v.) and is thus contrasted with "ex contractu". In this sense it is of more rare occurrence in the common law, though found In Bracton, (fols. 99, 101, 102.) Ex maleficio non oritur contractus. A contract cannot arise out of an act radically … [Read more...] about EX MALEFICIO