EXONERATUR

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

  EXONERATUR, practice. A short note entered on a bail piece, that the bail is 
  exonerated or discharged in consequence of having fulfilled the condition of 
  his obligation, made by order of the court or of a judge upon a proper cause 
  being shown. 
       2. A surrender is the most usual cause; but an exoneratur may be 
  entered in other cases, as in case of death of the defendant, or his 


  bankruptcy. 1 Arch. Pr. 280, 281, 282; Tidd's Pr. 240.