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ENTIRE INTEREST

The whole interest or right, without diminution. Where a person in selling his tract of landsells also his entire interest in all improvements upon public land adjacent thereto, thisvests in the purchaser

EO NOMINE

Lat. Under that name; by that appellation. I’cr in tic ac si en nomineiihi tradita fuissct. just as if it had been delivered to you by that name. Inst. 2, 1, 43.

EQUALITY

The condition of possessing the same rights, privileges, and immunities,and being liable to the same duties. Equality is equity. Fran. Max. 9, max. 3. Thus, where an heir buys In an incumbrance

ERECT

One of the formal words of incorporation in royal charters. “We do, incorporate,erect, ordain, name, constitute, and establish.”

ESCALDARE

To scald. It Is said that to scald hogs was one of the ancient tenures In serjeanty. Wharton.

ESKIPPESON

Shippage, or passage by sea. Spelled, also, “skippcson.” Cowell.

EST ASCAVOIR

It is to be understood or known; “it is to-wit.” Litt.

ESTATE IN REMAINDER

An estate limited to take effect in possession, or inenjoyment, or in both, subject only to any term of years or contingent interest that mayIntervene, immediately after the regular expiration of a

ET

And. The introductory word of several Latin and law French phrases formerly in common use.

ET SIC

And so. In the Latin forms of pleading these were the introductory words ofa special conclusion to a plea in bar, the object being to render it positive and not argumentative; as

EVICTION

Dispossession by process of law ; the act of depriving a person of thepossession of lands which he has held, in pursuance of the judgment of a court. Reasonerv. Edmundson, 5 Ind.

EX CATHEDRA

From the chair. Originally applied to the decisions of thepopes from their cathedra, or chair. Hence, authoritative; having the weight of authority.

EX DOLO MALO

Out of fraud; out of deceitful or tortious conduct. A phrase appliedto obligations and causes of action vitiated by fraud or deceit.Ex dolo malo non oritnr actio. Out offraud no action arises;

EX MALITIA

From malice; maliciously. In the law of libel and slander, this termimports a publication that is false and without legal excuse. Dixon v. Allen, 69 Cal. 527,11 Pac. 179.

EX RELATIONE

Upon relation or information. Legal proceedings which are institutedby the attorney general (or other proper person) in the name and behalf of the state,but on the information and at the instigation of

EXAMINED COPY

A copy of a record,public book, or register, and which has been compared with the original. 1 Campb. 469.

EXCISE

An Inland imposition, paid sometimes upon the consumption of the commodity,and frequently upon the retail sale. 1 Bl. Comm. 318; Story, Const.

EXECUTED

Completed; carried into full effect; already (lone or performed ; takingeffect immediately; now in existence or in possession; conveying an immediate right orpossession. The opposite of executory.

EXEMPTION

Freedom from a general duty or service; immunity from a generalburden, tax, or charge. Green v. State, 59 Md. 128, 43 Am. Rep. 542; Koenig v. RailroadCo., 3 Neb. 3S0; Long v.

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