Category: E

A law passed after the occurrence of a fact or commission ofan act, which retrospectively changes the legal consequences or relations of such’ factor deed. By Const. U. S. art. 1,

free-will or choice.Voluntarily; from

Extracts.

A reason alleged for doing or not doing a thing. Worcester.A matter alleged as a reason for relief or exemption from some duty or obligation.

In Scotch law. The movable estate of a person dying, which goes to hisnearest of kin. So called as falling under the distribution of an executor. Bell.Exempla illustrant non restringunt legem. Co.

To abdicate or resign ; to resign or surrender an estate, office, ordignity, by the symbolical delivery of a staff or rod to the alienee.

Lat. In old English law.(1) Exile; banishment from one’s country.(2) Driving away; despoiling. The name of a species of waste, which consisted in drivingaway tenants or vassals from the estate; as by

The whole of a person’s goods and chattels, bag and baggage. Wharton.Expedit reipublicse ne sna re quia male ntatur. It is for the interest of the state thata man should not enjoy

From the opposite; on the contrary.

In the law of evidence. One who attests or can attest anything asheard ‘by himself.

The drip or dropping of water from the eaves of a house on the land of anadjacent owner; the easement of having the water so drip, or the servitude ofsubmitting to such

In French marine law. Stranding. Emerig. Tr. des Ass. c. 12, s. 13, no. 1.

Within the meaning of a statute relative to the powers and duties ofguardians, this term comprehends not merely the instruction received at school or college,but the whole course of training, moral, intellectual,

In English law. The oldest; the first-born. Spelman.

In Spanish law. Commons; lands used In common by the inhabitants of acity, pueblo, or town, for pasture, wood, threshing-ground, etc. Hart v. Burnett, 15 Cal. 554.

The body of princes formerly entitled to elect the emperor of Germany.Also a name sometimes given, in the United States, to the body of electorschosen by the people to elect the president

In practice. (Fr. Eloigner, to remove to a distance; to remove afar off.) Areturn to a writ of replevin, when the chattels have been removed out of the way of thesheriff.

In criminal law. This offense consists in the attempt to influence a jurycorruptly to one side or the other, by promises, persuasions, entreaties, entertainments,douceurs, and the like. The person guilty of it

The profit arising from office or employment; that which is receivedas a compensation for services, or which is annexed to the possession of office assalary, fees, and perquisites; advantage; gain, public or

This word “is from the French, but has become somewhat naturalized in our language. Strictly and etymologically, it means ‘a person employed,’ but, in practice in the French language, it ordinarily is