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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. ...
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"] ...
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...
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] ...
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