Category: E

Tending to or marked by excess, which is the quality or state of exceeding the proper or reasonable limit or measure. Railway Co. v. Johnston, 106 Ga.i.30, 32 S. E. 78.

In the civil law. A diligent prosecution of a remedy against a debtor; theexhausting of a remedy against a principal debtor, before resorting to his sureties.Translated “discussion,” (q. v.)In old English law.

For the purpose of example, or for instance. Often abbreviated “ex. gr.” or “e. g.”

In the civil law. Disinheriting ; disherison. The formal method ofexcluding an Indefeasible (or forced) heirfrom the entire inheritance, by the testator’s express declaration in the will that suchperson shall be exhccres.

In the civil law. The civil reputation which belonged to the Romancitizen, as such. Mackeld. Rom. Law,

In regard to trespass and other torts, this term means to eject, to put out, todrive out, and generally with an implication of the use of force. Perry v. Fitzhowe, 8 Q.B.

Out of mere grace or favor.

A great officer of state who had anciently several courts underhis jurisdiction, as the court of chivalry and the court of honor. Under him is theherald’s office, or college of arms. He

An expression used formerly in this country to denote the limits ofadmiralty jurisdiction. See United States v. Aborn, 3 Mason, 127, Fed. Cas. No. 14,418;Hale v. Washington Ins. Co., 2 Story, 176,

In medicine. That system followed by physicians who selecttheir modes of practice and medicines from various schools. Webster.”Without professing to understand much of medical phraseology, we suppose thatthe terms ‘allopathic practice’ and

The working cause; that cause which produces effects or results;an intervening cause, which produces results which would not have come to passexcept for its interposition, and for which, therefore, the person who

A name formerly given to a justice of the peace. In the Digests, theword is written “irenareha.” Eisdem modis dissolvitur obligatio quae nascitur ex contractu, vel quasi, quibuscontrahitur. An obligation which arises

Of the same kind, class, or nature.In statutory construction, the “ejusdem generis rule” is that where general words follow an enumeration of persons or things, by words of a particular and specific

A penny which King Ethelred ordered to be paid for every plow in England towards the support of the poor. Leg. Ethel, c. 1.

In practice. Eloigned; carried away to a distance. The old form of thereturn made by a sheriff to a writ of replevin, stating that the goods or beasts had beeneloigned; that is,

An old word still made use of in the accounts of the society of the InnerTemple, where so much in cmcndals at the foot of an account on the balance thereofsignifies so

In ancient law. A mode of inflicting punishment, by thrusting a sharp pole up the fundament. Euc. Loud.

This word does not necessarily import an engagement or rendering services for another. A person may as well be “employed” about his own business as in the transaction of the same for

Span. Judicially; in a court of law; in a suit at law. White, New Recop. b. 2, tit. a c. 1.

In the Scotch law. To shut up a jury after the case has been submitted to them. 2 Alls. Crim. Pr. 634. See INCLOSE.