Category: E

The destruction or cancellation of a right, power, contract, orestate. The annihilation of a collateral thing or subject in the subject itself out of whichIt is derived. Prest. Merg. 9. For the distinction between an extinguishment and passinga right, see 2 Shars. Bl. Comm. 325, note.”Extinguishment” is sometimes confounded vpith “merger,” though there is a cleardistinction between them. “Merger” is only a mode of extinguishment, and applies toestates only under particular circumstances; but “extinguishment” is a term of generalapplication to rights, as well as estates. 2 Crabb, Real Prop, p. 367,

In canon law. Those decretal epistles which were published afterthe Clementines. They were so called because at first they were not digested orarranged with the other papal constitutions, but seemed to be, as it were, detachedfrom the canon iaw They continued to be calledby the same name when they were afterwards inserted in the body of the canon law.The first extravagantes are those of Pope John XXII., succcssor of Clement V. The lastcollection was brought down to the year 14S3. and was called the “Common Extravagantes.”notwithstanding that they were likewise incorporated with the rest of thecanon law. Enc. Lond.

In English law. A species of destruction or waste, analogous to estrepement See ESTREPEMENT.

This a Latin phrase meaning Outside the roadway and applies to using the adjoining property when a road has become impassable.

A judicial writ, either before or after judgment, that lay against aperson who, when a verdict was found against him for land, etc., maliciously overthrewany house or extirpated any trees upon it. Reg. Jud. 13, 56.

In Louisiana this term is used to designate that propertywhich forms no part of the dowry of a woman, and which is also called “paraphernalproperty.” Civ. Code La. art. 2315. Fleitas v. Richardson, 147 U. S. 550, 13 Sup. Ct.495, 37 L. Ed. 276.

In old records. To grub woodland, and reduce it to arable or meadow ; “to stock up.” Cowell.

The exira-teiritorial operation of laws; that Is, their operation upon persons, rights, or juralrelations,, existing beyond the limits of the enacting state, but still amenable to its laws.

Relying on an outside party that limits freedom of choice in the operation and strategy.

The privilege of those persons (such as foreign ministers) who,though temporarily resident within a state, are not subject to the operation of its laws.