Law. [L. phrase, lit. ‘that you cause to be demanded,’ f. exigĕre to demand, exact, and facĕre to make, cause.] = EXIGENT sb.2
a. 1577. Sir T. Smith, Commw. Eng., II. xiv. (1609), 61. The Clarke of the Exigent is to frame all manner of Processes of Exigi facias.
1848. in Wharton, Law Lex.
