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EMINENT DOMAIN

Eminent domain is the right of the people or government to take private property for public use. Code Civ. rroc. Cal.

EMPLAZAMIENTO

In Spanish law. A summons or citation, issued by authority of ajudge, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to appear before the tribunal at adesignated day and hour.

EMTOR

In the civil law. A buyer or purchaser; the buyer. Dig. 18, 1; Cod. 4, 49.

ENACH

In Saxon law. The satisfaction for a crime; the recompense for a fault. Skene.

ENDOCARDITIS

In medical jurisprudence. An inflammation of the muscular tissue of the heart.

ENORMIA

In old practice and pleading. Unlawful or wrongful acts; wrongs. Et aliaenormia, and other wrongs. This phrase constantly occurs in the old writs and declarationsof trespass.

ENTENDMENT

The old form of intendment, (q. v.) derived directly from the French,and used to denote the true meaning or signification of a word or sentence; that is, theunderstanding or construction of law.

ENTREGA

Span. Deliverv. Las Par- tidas, pt. 0, tit. 14, 1. 1.

EPIQUEYA

In Spanish law. A term synonymous with “equity” in one of its senses,and defined as “the benignant and prudent interpretation of the law according to thecircumstances of the time, place, and person.”

EQUITABLE

Just; conformable to the principles of natural justice and right.Just, fair, and right, in consideration of the facts and circumstances of the individualcase.Existing in equity; available or sustainable only in equity, or

ERMINE

By metonymy, this term is used to describe the office or functions of ajudge, whose state robe, lined with ermine, is emblematical of purity and honor withoutstain. Webster.

ESCHEATOR

In English law. The name of an officer who was appointed in everycounty to look after the escheats which fell due to the king in that particular county,and to certify the same

ESPEDIENT

In Spanish law. A junction of all the separate papers made in thecourse of any one proceeding and which remains In the office at the close of it. Castillerov. U. S., 2

ESTADIA

In Spanish law. Delay in a voyage, or in the delivery of cargo, caused bythe charterer or consignee, for which demurrage is payable.

ESTIMATE

This word is used to express the mind or judgment of the speaker orwriter on the particular subject under consideration. It implies a calculation or computation,as to estimate the gain or loss

ET CETERA

And others; and other things; and so on. In its abbreviated form (etc.)this phrase is frequently affixed to one of a series of articles or names to show thatothers are intended to

EUNDO, MORANDO, ET REDEUNDO

Lat. Going, remaining, and returning. A person who is privileged from arrest (as awitness, legislator, etc.) is generally so privileged eundo, morando, et redcundo; that is,on his way to the place where

EX ABUNDANTI CAUTEEA

Lat. Out of abundant caution. “The practice has arisen abundmti cautcla.” 8 East, 32(5; LordEllenborough, 4 Maule & S. 544.

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