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A prefix from the latin preposition ex akin to Gr ex or ek signifying out of out proceeding from Hence in composition it signifies out of as in exhale exclude off from or out as in exscind beyond as in excess exceed excel and sometimes has a privative sense of without as in exalbuminous exsanguinous In some words it intensifies the meaning in others it has little affect on the signification It becomes ef before f as in effuse The form e occurs instead of ex before b d g l m n r and v as in ebullient emanate enormous etc In words from the French it often appears as es sometimes as s or eacute as escape scape eacutelite Ex prefixed to names implying office station condition denotes that the person formerly held the office or is out of the office or condition now as ex president ex governor ex mayor ex convict The Greek form ex becomes ex in English as in exarch ek becomes ec as in eccentric...


ex post facto

ex post facto [Late Latin, literally, from a thing done afterward] : after the fact : retroactively [cannot judge ex post facto] adj 1 : done, made, or formulated after the fact : retroactive 2 : of or relating to an ex post facto law [the chief concerns of the ex post facto ban "L. H. Tribe"] ...


Ex turpi causa non oritur actio

Ex turpi causa non oritur actio.-(No right of action arises from a base cause.) See Ex DOLO MALO, etc. There are also maxims, Ex maleficio non oritur contractus and Ex facto illicito non oritur actio, to the same effect....


ex contractu

ex contractu [Latin] : arising from or based on a contract [damages ex contractu] compare ex delicto ...


ex delicto

ex delicto [Latin, of or by reason of a wrong] : arising from or based on a tort or delict (as a breach of duty) [the action is ex delicto] compare ex contractu ...


ex maleficio

ex maleficio [Late Latin, in the phrase obligatio ex maleficio obligation arising from a misdeed] : arising from wrongdoing : created by law in response to a wrongdoing [a trustee ex maleficio] ...


ex officio

ex officio [Late Latin] : by virtue or because of an office [the Vice President serves ex officio as president of the Senate] [an ex officio member of the board] ...


ex relatione

ex relatione [Medieval Latin] : by or on the relation or information of NOTE: The abbreviation for ex relatione ex rel., is used in the title of informations and special proceedings to designate the interested individual, called the relator, at whose instance the state or public officer is acting. ...


Red hot

Red with heat heated to redness as red hot iron red hot balls Hence figuratively excited violent as a red hot radical...


Eventus est qui ex causa sequitur; et dicitur eventus quia ex causis evenit

Eventus est qui ex causa sequitur; et dicitur eventus quia ex causis evenit [Lat.], An event is that which follows from a cause; and is called an event, because it results from causes....


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