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1. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Expilation \Ex`pi*la"tion\, n. [L. expiatio.]
   The act of expilating or stripping off; plunder; pillage.
   [Obs.]
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         This ravenous expilation of the state.   --Daniel.
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2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
EXPILATION, civil law. The crime of abstracting the goods of a succession. 
     2. This is said not to be a theft, because the property no longer 
belongs to the deceased, nor to the heir before he has taken possession. In 
the common law, the grant of letters testamentary, or letters of 
administration, relate back to the time of the death of the testator or 
intestate, so that the property of the estate is vested in the executor or 
administrator from that period. 



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