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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. ...
relator
relator : a party other than the plaintiff upon whose information, knowledge, or relation of facts an action is brought when the right to bring the action is vested in another: as a : the private person who brings a qui tam action b : a party who has standing and on whose behalf a writ (as of mandamus) is petitioned for by the state as plaintiff [ then filed…a petition in prohibition requesting this court to prohibit respondents from transferring the funds "State ex rel. Tate v. Turner, 789 S.W.2d 240 (1990)"] see also ex relatione ...
Relator
Relator, a rehearser, teller, or informer. It was the name given to a plaintiff in an information in Chancery, where the rights of the Crown were not immediately concerned, who was responsible for costs; he must have given the solicitor a written authority to file the information, 15 & 16 Vict. c. 86, s. 11. For the former information in Chancery an action is now substituted (see R.S.C. Ord. 1., r. 1), but the term 'relator' is still in use as meaning the person responsible for costs at whose suggestion an action is commenced by the Attorney-General.Also, a person who brings an information in the nature of a quo warranto, or a criminal information.Means a party who has standing and on whose behalf a writ is petitioned for by the state as plaintiff, State ex rel. Tate v. Turner, 789 SW 2d 240 (1990)....
Ex
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...
immediate relative
immediate relative Spouse, widow(er) and unmarried children under the age of 21 of an American citizen. A parent is an immediate relative if the American citizen is 21 years of age or older. There are no numerical limits to immigration of immediate relatives. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...
relative
relative 1 : not absolute 2 in the civil law of Louisiana : having or allowing some legal effect [a impediment] [a simulation] see also relative nullity at nullity rel·a·tive·ly adv ...
Relative
Relative, 'relative' means, in the context, near rela-tions set out in s. 27(2) of the Estate Duty Act, 1953 and in this case the accounting persons are both relatives, Controller of Estate Duty v. Shri Kantilal Trikamlal, AIR 1976 SC 1935: (1976) 4 SCC 643: (1977) 1 SCR 9.It includes any person related to the mentally ill person by blood, marriage or adoption. [Mental Health Act, 1987, s. 2 (t)]A person connected with another by blood or affinity; a kinsman, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1291....
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....
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