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1445–6 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Feb. 1445 §38. m. 6 Many of your seid true poeple and subgetts been put in exigent and utlawed.

1534 G. Ferrers tr. Bk. Magna Carta f. 187 By reason wherof there can be no tryall made in due maner, nor the felons put in exigent nor outlawed.

1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 114 a Goods and chattels of those that be put in exigent.

a1634 E. Coke 3rd Pt. Inst. Laws Eng. (1644) sig. Kk3^v/2 (Table) What a man that is put in Exigent shall forfeit. 232. How a man that is put in Exigent may excuse his absence. 233.

1712 Act Selling certain Lands Manour of Wightfield 3 Of Felons of themselves, and of Persons Out-lawed and put in Exigent.

1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy I. xv. 89 Together with all rents, reversions, services,..goods and chattels of felons and fugitives, felons of themselves, and put in exigent.

1806 E. Lawes & J. Story Pract. Treat. Pleading xix. 509 Non constat that because the party was put in exigent the outlawry was regular.

1874 J. Gairdner in Paston Lett. (new ed.) II. Introd. p. xxiii He..allowed himself to be put in exigent, while he followed the king to Marlborough.

1910 Living Age 2 Apr. 62/1 Goods and chattels of felons and fugitives, felons of themselves, and put in exigent.

2012 H. Summerson in S. Jenks et al. Laws, Lawyers & Texts 115 Suspicion of arson led to women being put in exigent, and presumably waivered.