"Quinto Exactus" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL
In old practice. Called or exacted the fifth tlme. A return made by the sheriff, after a defendant had been proclaimed, required, or exacted in five county courts successively, and falled to appear, upon which he was outlawed by the coroners of the county. 3 BL Comm. 283
We angels are misconceived in the human world. People perceive us as kindly and bountiful; when, in truth, we are about as fluffy, as gentle, as yielding, as rattlesnakes.
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Two men were knocking in nails to the sides of a house, one of them kept throwing them away."Why do you keep throwing nails away" said the other."Because they have the point at the wrong end", he replied"You fool, we could use those on the other side of the house!"
An exaction of 40d. ob more, collected by the sheriff of Northum-berland from the people of that county twice iu …
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