EXEQUATUR, French law. This Latin word was, in the ancient practice, placed at the bottom of a judgment¹ emanating² from another tribunal, and was a permission and authority to the officer to execute it within the jurisdiction³ of the judge who put it below the judgment.

2. We have something of the same kind in our practice. When a warrant for the arrest of a criminal is issued by a justice of the peace of one county, and he flies into another, a justice of the latter county may endorse⁴ the warrant and then the ministerial officer may execute it in such county. This is called backing a warrant.

EXEQUATUR, internat. law. A declaration made by the executive of a government near to which a consul⁵ has been nominated and appointed , after such nomination⁶ and appointment has been notified, addressed to the people, in which is recited the appointment of the foreign state, and that the executive having approved of the consul as such, commands all the citizens to receive, countenance⁷, and, as there may be occasion, favorably assist the consul in the exercise of his place, giving and allowing him all the privileges, immunities⁸, and advantages, thereto belonging. 3 Chit. Com. Law, 56; 3 Maule & Selw. 290; 5 Pardes. 1445.

EXERCITOR. A term in the civil law, to denote the person who fits out, and equips a vessel⁹, whether he be the absolute or qualified¹⁰ owner, or even a mere¹¹ agent. Emer. on Mar¹². Loans, c. 1, s. 1.

2. In English, we generally use the word "ship's hushand," but exercitor is generally used to designate and distinguish from among several part owners of a ship, the one who has the immediate¹³ care an management of her. Hall on Mar. Loans 142, n. See Dig. 19, 2, 19, 7; Id. 14, 1 1, 15; Vicat, Vocab.; Ship's hushand.

EXHEREDATION, civil law. The act by which a forced heir is deprived of his legitimate¹⁴ or legal portion which the law gives him; disinherison. (q. v.)

EXHIBIT, practice. Where a paper or other writing is on motion, or on other occasion, proved; or if an affidavit¹⁵ to which the paper writing is annexed¹⁶, refer to it, it is usual to mark the same with a capital letter, and to add, " This paper writing marked with the letter A, was shown to the deponent at the time of his being sworn by me, and is the writing by him referred to in the affidavit annexed hereto." Such paper or other writing, with this attestation¹⁷, signed by the judge or other person before whom the affidavit shall have been sworn, is called an exhibit. Vide Stra. 674; 2 P. Wms. 410; Gresl. Eq. Ev. 98.

TO EXHIBIT. To produce a thing publicly, so that it may be taken possession of, or seized. Dig. 10, 4, 2. To exhibit means also to file of record; as, it is the practice in England in personal actions, when an officer or prisoner of the king's bench is defendant¹⁸, to proceed against such defendant in the court in which he is an officer, by exhibiting, that is, filing a bill against him. Stepb. P.I. 52, n. (1); 2 Sell. Pr. 74. In medical language, to. exhibit signifies to ad minist er, to cause a thing to be taken by a patient. Chit. bled. Jur. 9.

EXHIBlTANT. One who exhibits any thing; one who is complainant in articles of the peace. 12 Adol. & Ellis, 599 40 E. C. L. R. 124.