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ENGROSSING

In English law. The getting into one’s possession, or buying up, largequantities of corn, or other dead victuals, with intent to sell them again. The totalengrossing of any other commodity, with intent

ENROLLMENT

In English law. The registering or entering on the rolls of chancery,king’s bench, common pleas, or exchequer, or by the clerk of the peace in the recordsof the quarter sessions, of any

ENTIRE

Whole; without division, separation or diminution.

EO INSTANTE

Lat. At that instant; at the very or same Instant; immediately. 1 Bl.Comm. 196, 249 ; 2 Bl. Comm. 168; Co. l.itt. 208a; 1 Coke. 138.

EPISTOLiE

In the civil law. Rescripts ; opinions given by the emperors in cases submittedto them for decision.Answers of the emperors to petitions.The answers of counsellors, (juris-consul- it,) as Ulpian and others, to

ERASTIANS

The followers of Erastus. The sect obtained much influence in England,particularly among common lawyers in the time of Selden. They held that offensesagainst religion and morality should be punished by the civil

ERROR

A mistaken judgment or incorrect belief as to the existence or effect of mattersof fact, or a false or mistaken conception or application of the law.Such a mistaken or false conception or

ESKETORES

Robbers, or destroyers of other men’s lands and fortunes. Cowell.

ESSENDI QUIETUM DE TOLONIO

A writ to be quit of toll; it lies for citizens and burgesses of any city or town who, bycharter or prescription, ought to be exempted from toll, where the same Is

ESTATE IN EXPECTANCY

One which is not yet in possession, but the enjoyment of which is to begin at a future time;a present or vested contingent right of future enjoyment. These are remainders and reversions.Fenton

ET INDE PRODUCIT SECTAM

And thereupon he brings suit. The Latin conclusion of a declaration, except against attorneysand other officers of the court. 3 Bl. Comm. 295.

EVERY

Each one of all; the term includes all the separate individuals who constitute the whole, regarded one by one. Geary v. Parker, 65 Ark. 521, 47 S. W. 238; Purdy v.People, 4

EX ASSENSU PATRIS

By or with the consent of the father. A species of dower adostium ecclesite, during the life of the father of the husband; the son, by the father’sconsent expressly given, endowing his

EX DEFECTU SANGUINIS

From a delict, tort, fault, crime, or malfeasance. In both the civil andthe common law, obligations and causes of action are divided into two great classes,

EXACTOR

In the civil law. A gatherer or receiver of money; a collector of taxes. Cod. 10, 19.In old English law. A collector of the public moneys; a tax-gatherer. Thus, exactorregis was the

EXCESSIVE

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.

EXCUSSIO

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.

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