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ENTRY BOOK

the name given to the record book where the register of all titles is kept.

ENTICEMENT OF CHILD

This the name given to an act where a child is taken forcibly from a custodial parent.

EXTRANEOUS OFFENSE

This term applies to an offense that is committed and does not bear on the current trial.

EQUAL RIGHTS STATUTES

These are the laws stating that there can be no discrimination made because of a person’s sex, colour, age or race.

ENTREATY

the word that means to supplicate or to beg and plead in earnest.

EXPIATE

This means to atone for something and to make amends or reparations for.

EQUITABLE RECOUPMENT

the term applied to the fair and reasonable reduction in the damages awarded to a claimant.

EXCLUSIONARY RULE

a doctrine that will prevent the illegally gathered evidence being presented to the court.

EXCLUSIVE REMEDY

the term given to a remedy when the law creates a new liability or a new right.

EQUITABLE GARNISHMENT

the action taken by the creditor where he will take possession of property owned by the debtor to satisfy the agreement.

EXECUTIVE AGENT

the term given to an officer of a company that is able to act for the board of directors.

EMPHASIZING FACTS

This means to take certain parts of evidence and stress the importance of them to the jury.

EXPURGATE

a term that means to purify and to cleanse.

EASEMENT OF ACCESS

the right given to use a pathway or a road to a property that belongs to another person to give access to a road.

EXTENUATION

These are the fact or the fact ts that tend to lessen the severity of the penalty for a crime.

EXCLUSIVE RIGHT

the right or privilege that can only be used by the person who it is granted to.

EXPRESS ASSUMPSIT

This the agreement and the obligation to act that is stated in explicit terms.

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