Category: E

The share of the eldest A term of the English law descriptive of the lotor share chosen by the eldest of coparceners when they make a voluntary partition.The first choice (primer election)

L Lat. A creature of the law; an artificial being, as contrasted with anatural person. Applied to corporations, considered as deriving their existence entirely from the law.

This phrase signifies an undivided day.not parts of two days. An entire day must have a legal, fixed, precise time to begin, anda fixed, precise time to end. A day, in contemplation

Lat. In the civil law. In that state or condition: in that place, (co loco.)Calvin.

Alike: uniform; on the same plane or level with respect to efficiency,worth, value, amount, or rights. People v. Hoffman, 116 111. 587, 5 N. E. 600, 56 Am.Rep. 793.

In the civil law. To be divided. Judicium familial crciscundw, a suitfor the partition of an inheritance. Inst. 4, 17, 4. An ancient phrase derived from theTwelve Tables. Calvin.

In old law. A cutting off the branches or boughs of trees. Cowell; Spelman.

To ship.

A person who made an essoin.Est aliqnid qnod non oportet etiam si licet; qnicquid vero non licet certe non oportet.Hob. 159. There is that which is not proper, even though permitted; but

An estate in lands or tenements granted to two ormore persons, to hold in fee-simple, fee- tail, for life, for years, or at will. 2 Bl. Comm.180; 2 Crabb, Real Prop. 937.

A species of aggravated waste, by stripping or devastating the land,to the injury of the reversioner, and especially pending a suit for possession.

An abbreviation for et sequen- tia, “and the following.” Thus a reference to”p. 1, et seq.” means “page first and the following pages.”

In the civil law. To recover anything from a person by virtue of the judgmentof a court or judicial sentence.At common law. To dispossess, or turn out of the possession of lands

Of the goods or property. A term of the civil law; .distinguished from inbonis, as being descriptive of or applicable to property not in actual possession. Calvin.

Directly; immediately. Story, Bills, $ 199.Ex dintnrnitate temporis, omnia prse- ?nmnntnr solemniter esse acta. Prom lengthof time [after lapse of timel all things are presumed to have been done in due form.

Growing out of, or ?/founded upon, misdoing or tort. This term l is frequently used in the civil law as thesynonym of “ex delicto” (q. v.,) and is thus contrasted with “ex

From quasi contract. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 00.

An Investigation; search; interrogating.In trial practice. The examination of a witness consists of the series of questions putto him by a party to the action, or his counsel, for the purpose of

That department of the English government which has charge of thecollection of the national revenue; the treasury department.It is said to have been so named from the chequered cloth, resembling a chessboard,which

To finish, accomplish, make complete, fulfill. To perform; obey the injunctions of.To make; as to execute a deed, which includes signing, sealing, and delivery.To perform; carry out according to its terms ;