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EXIT WOUND

A term used in medical jurisprudence to denote the wound made bya weapon on the side where it emerges, after it has passed completely through thebody, or through any part of it

EXPENSIS MILITUM NON LEVAN- DIS

An ancient writ to prohibit the sheriff fromlevying any allowance for knights of the shire upon those who held lands in ancientdemesne. Reg. Orig. 261.Experientia per varios actus legem facit. Magistra rerum

EA INTENTIONE

With that intent. Held not to make a condition, but a confidence and trust. Dyer, 13S6.Ea quae, commendandi causa, in ven- ditionibus dicuntur, si palam appareant,venditorem non obligant. Those things which are

EARNEST

The payment of a part of the price of goods sold, or the delivery of partof such goods, for the purpose of binding the contract. Ilowe v. Hayward, 108 Mass. 54, 11

EDDERBRECHE

In Saxon law. The offense of hedge-breaking. Obsolete.

EFFLUXION OF TIME

When this phrase is used in leases, conveyances, and other like deeds, or in agreementsexpressed in simple writing, it indicates the conclusion or expiration of an agreed termof years specified in the

EITHER

May be used in the sense of “each.” Chidester v. Railway Co., 59 111. 87.This word does not mean “all;” but does mean one or the other of two or morespecified things.

ELDER BRETHREN

A distinguished body of men, elected as masters of TrinityHouse, an institution incorporated in the reign of Henry VIII., charged with numerousimportant duties relating to the marine, such as the superintendence of

ELEEMOSYNARIUS

In old English law. An almoner, or chief ollicer, who received theeleemosynary rents aul gifts, and In due method distributed them to pious andcharitable uses. Cowell; Wharton.The name of an officer (lord

ELSEWHERE

In another place; in any other place. See 1 Vern. 4, and note.In shipping articles, this term, following the designation of the port of destination,must be construed either as void for uncertainty

EMENDATIO PANIS ET CEREVISISE

In old English law. The power of supervising and correcting the weights and measures ofbread and ale, (assising bread and beer.) Cowell.

EMPEROR

The title of the sovereign ruler of au empire. This designation wasadopted by the rulers of the Roman world after the decay of the republic, and was assumedby those who claimed to

EMPTIO

In the Roman and civil law. The act of buying; a purchase.

EN OWEE MAIN

L. Fr. In equal hand. The word “owel” occurs also in the phrase “owelty of partition.”

ENCROACHMENT

An encroachment upon a street or highway is a fixture, such as awall or fence, which intrudes into or invades the highway or incloses a portion of it,diminishing its width or area,

ENFORCE

To put into execution; to cause to take effect; to make effective; as, toenforce a writ, a judgment, or the collection of a debt or fine. Breitenbach v. Bush, 44Pa. 320, 84

ENJOIN

To require; command; positively direct To require a person, by writ ofinjunction from a court of equity, to perform, or to abstain or desist from, some actClifford v. Stewart, 95 Me. 38,

ENTIRE INTEREST

The whole interest or right, without diminution. Where a person in selling his tract of landsells also his entire interest in all improvements upon public land adjacent thereto, thisvests in the purchaser

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