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ENFEOFF

To Invest with an estate by feoffment. To make a gift of any corpon ahereditaments to another. See FEOFFMENT.

ENROLLMENT OF VESSELS

In the laws of the United States on the subject of merchant shipping, the recording and certificationof vessels employed in coastwise or inland navigation ; as distinguished fromthe “registration” of vessels employed

EO INTUITU

Lat. With or in that view; with that intent or object. Hale, Anal.

EPOCH

The time at which a new computation is begun; the time whence dates are numbered. Enc. Lond.

ERASURE

The obliteration of words or marks from a written instrument by rubbing, scraping, or scratching them out. Also the place in a document where a word or words have been so removed.

ERTHMIOTUM

In old English law. A meeting of the neighborhood to compromisedifferences among themselves; a court held on the boundary of two lauds.Erubescit lex Alios castigare parentes.8 Coke, 110. The law blushes when

ESKIPPAMENTUM

Tackle or furniture ; outfit. Certain towns in England were boundto furnish certain ships at their own expense and with double skippage or tackle.Cowell.

ESSOIN

v. In old English practice. To present or offer an excuse for not appearingin court on an appointed day in obedience to a summons; to cast an essoin. Spelman.This was anciently done

ESTATE IN FEE-SIMPLE

The estate which a man has where lands are given to himand to his heirs absolutely without any end or limit put to his estate. 2 Bl. Comm. 100;Plowd. 557; 1 Prest.

ESTREPE

To strip; to despoil; to lay waste; to commit waste upon an estate, as bycutting down trees, removing buildings, etc. To injure the value of a reversionaryinterest by stripping or spoiling the

ET MODO AD HUNC DIEM

Lat. And now at this day. This phrase was the formalbeginning of an entry of appearance or of a continuance. The equivalent English wordsare still used in this connection.

EX ASSENSU SUO

With his assent Formal words in judgments for damages by default. Comb. 220.

EX DEMISSIONS

(commonly abbreviated ex dem.) Upon the demise. A phraseforming part of the title of the old action of ejectment.

EX LOCATO

From or out of lease or letting. A term of the civil law, applied toactions or rights of action arising out of the contract of location, (q. v.) Inst. 4, 6, 28.

EXAMEN

L. Lat A trial. Ex amen computi, tlie balance of an account Townsh. PI.223.

EXCHANGE

In conveyancing. A mutual grant of equal Interests, (in lauds or tenements,) the one in consideration of theother. 2 Bl. Comm. 323; Windsor v. Collin- son, 32 Or. 297, 52 Pac. 26;

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