Category: E

The dignity or jurisdiction of an earl. The dignity only remains now, as the jurisdictionhas been given over to the sheriff. 1 Bl. Comm. 339.

In old English law. Ebb. Ebba ct ftuctus; ebb and flow of tide; ebb andflood. Bract, fols. 255, 338. The time occupied by one ebb and flood was ancientlygranted to persons essoined

In French marine law. The clerk of a ship. Emerig. Tr. des Ass. & 11, s. 3, no. 2.

The corporeal representation of a person.To make the effigy of a person with an intent to make him the object of ridicule is alibel. 2 Chit. Crim. Law, 866.

The senior; the oldest son. Spelled, also, “eigne,” “cinsne,” “aisne,” “eign.” Termes de la Ley; Kelham.

In old European law. To gain, acquire, or purchase, as by labor and industry.

Possessions belonging to the church. Blount.

In England, where in a proceeding by foreign attachment the plaintiff has obtained judgment of appraisement, hut by reason of some act of the garnisheethe goods cannot be appraised, (as where he

In Saxon law. To make amends or satisfaction for any crime or trespasscommitted; to pay a fine: to be fined. Spelman. Emcndare se. to redeem, or ransomone’s life, by payment of a

See IMPANEL.

A place for wholesale trade in commodities carried by sea. The name issometimes applied to a seaport town, but it properly signifies only a particular place insuch a town. Smith, Diet. Antiq.

Fr. In a mass; in a lump; at wholesale.

In Spanish law. A grant from the crown to a private person of acertain portion of territory in the Spanish colonies, together with the concession of acertain number of the native inhabitants,

The act of investing with any dignity or possession; also the instrument or deed by which a person is invested with possessions.

L. Fr. Inheritance.

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

See CONTRACT

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

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

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.