EXOINE

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  EXOINE, French law. An act or instrument in writing, which contains the 
  reasons why a party in a civil suit, or a person accused, who has been 
  summoned, agreeably to the requisitions of a decree, does not appear. Poth. 
  Proced. Crim. s. 3,  art. 3. Vide Essoin.