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2521 Etymology dictionary, p. euthanasia (n.).2
… of "legally sanctioned mercy killing" is recorded in English by 1869.
2522 Etymology dictionary, p. evict (v.).2
… by legal process" first recorded in English 1530s, from a post-classical sense of the Latin word. Related: Evicted; evicting. Compare evince .
2523 Etymology dictionary, p. evidence (n.).3
… evident. Legal senses are from c. 1500, when it began to oust witness. Also "one who furnishes testimony, witness" (1590s); hence turn (State's) evidence .
2524 Etymology dictionary, p. examine (v.).2
… , move"). Legal sense of "question or hear (a witness in court)" is from early 15c. Related: Examined; examining .
2525 Etymology dictionary, p. exception (n.).2
… a legal sense, "formal objection or protest entered by a defendant"), Old French excepcion, from Latin exceptionem (nominative exceptio ) "an exception, restriction …
2526 Etymology dictionary, p. excuse (v.).2
… "accusation, legal action" (see cause (n.)).
2527 Etymology dictionary, p. execution (n.).3
… English legal phrases such as don execution of deth "carry out a sentence of death." Literal meaning "action of carrying something into effect" is from late …
2528 Etymology dictionary, p. execute (v.).2
… earlier legal sense "perform judgment or sentence on" (early 15c.). Related: Executed; executing .
2529 Etymology dictionary, p. exorbitant (adj.).2
… ., a legal term, "deviating from rule or principle, eccentric;" from Late Latin exorbitantem (nominative exorbitans ), present participle of exorbitare "deviate …
2530 Etymology dictionary, p. ex parte.2
Latin legal term, "on the one side only," from ex "out of" (see ex- ) + parte, ablative of pars "a part, piece, a division, a fraction, a side of the body" (from PIE root *pere- (2) "to grant, allot").
2531 Etymology dictionary, p. expert (n.).2
… the legal sense, "person who, by virtue of special acquired knowledge or experience on a subject, presumably not within the knowledge of men generally, may …
2532 Etymology dictionary, p. extrajudicial (adj.).2
also extra-judicial, "outside judicial proceedings, outside the ordinary course of legal procedure," 1580s (implied in extrajudicially ); see extra- + judicial .
2533 Etymology dictionary, p. fact (n.).3
An earlier adaptation of the Old French word that also became feat. The older senses are mostly obsolete but somewhat preserved in such phrases as after the fact, originally legal, "after the crime." Also compare matter-of-fact .
2534 Etymology dictionary, p. fatwa (n.).2
… a legal decision." Popularized in English 1989 when Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran issued a ruling sentencing author Salman Rushdie to death for publishing …
2535 Etymology dictionary, p. fee (n.).5
… the legal senses "estate in land or tenements held on condition of feudal homage; land, property, possession" (c. 1300). Hence fee-simple (late 14c.) "absolute ownership …
2536 Etymology dictionary, p. felon (n.).4
… legal sense "criminal; one who has committed a felony," however that was defined. Century Dictionary notes, "the term is not applicable after legal punishment …
2537 Etymology dictionary, p. feud (n.).2
… , feud, (legal) vengeance," which is from Germanic) from Proto-Germanic *faihitho (compare Old High German fehida "contention, quarrel, feud"), noun of state from adjective …
2538 Etymology dictionary, p. fiction (n.).3
… . The legal sense ( fiction of law ) is from 1580s. A writer of fiction could be a fictionist (1827). The related Latin words included the literal notion "worked by …
2539 Etymology dictionary, p. finding (n.).2
… support." Legal sense "proceedings leading to a verdict in an inquisition, etc.," is from mid-15c. Old English finding meant "invention." Related: Findings .
2540 Etymology dictionary, p. forbearance (n.).2
1570s, originally legal, in reference to enforcement of debt obligations, from forbear (v.) + -ance. General sense of "a refraining from" is from 1590s.