Category: E

A female executor. Hardr. 165, 473. See EXECUTRIX.

In old English law. A heriot paid only in arms, horses, or military accouterments.

Denmndable; requirable.

To await; to look forward to something intended, promised, or likely tohappen. Atchison, etc., R. Co. v. Ilamliu, 07 Kan. 470, 73 Pac. 58.

That extreme measure of care and caution which persons of unusual prudence andcircumspection use for securing and preserving their own property or rights. Civ. CodeGa. 1805.

In English law. Such grass which is upon the land after the mowing, until the feast of the Annunciation after. 3 Leon. 213.

Any place where food or refreshments of any kind, not includingspirits, wines, ale, beer, or other malt liquors, are provided for casual visitors, and soldfor consumption therein. Act Cong. July 13, 1806,

In French law. A municipal officer corresponding with alderman orburgess, and having in some instances a civil jurisdiction in certain causes of trifling importance.

This is the first collection of law that was made after the downfall of the Roman power in Italy. It waspromulgated by Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths, at Rome in A. D.

In Scotch law. An addition; as, eik to a reversion, etfc, to a confirmation. Bell.

In old English law. A whoremonger. Blount

Persons chosen by the people at a so-called “presidential election,” to elect a president and vice-president of the United States.

In practice. Electors or choosers. Persons appointed by the court toexecute writs of venire, in cases where both the sheriff and coroner are disqualifiedfrom ac ting, and whose duty is to choose

L. Fr. A stealing from the people. The phrase occurs in the oldrolls of parliament: “Whereas divers murders, emblert de gentz, and robberies are committed,” eta

In American law. To put forthor send out; to issue. “No state shall emit bills of credit.” Const U. S. art. 1.

To engage in one’s service; to use as an agent or substitute iu transactingbusiness; to commission and intrust with the management of one’s affairs; and, whenused in respect to a servant or

In French law. An acte is said to be en brevet when a copy of it has not been recorded by the notary who drew it.

L. Fr. To write down in short; to abbreviate, or, in old language,imbreviate; to put into a schedule. Britt. c. 1.

1. The assignment of dower; the setting off a woman’s dower. 2 Bl.Comm. 135.2. In appropriations of churches, (in English law,) the setting off a sufficient maintenancefor the vicar in perpetuity. 1

In copyright law. The art of producing on hard material incised orraised patterns, lines, and the like, from which an impression or print is taken. The termmay apply to a text or