Category: E

A sole possession by one person, called “severalty,” which is contraryto several tenancy, where a joint or common possession is in one or more.

In Saxon law. An earl.

The act or process of making equal or bringing about conformity toa common standard. The process of equalizing assessments or taxes, as performed by”boards of equalization” in various states, consists in comparing

Baising up; building; a completed building. In a statute on the “erection”of wooden buildings, this term does not include repairing, alteration, enlarging, orremoval. See Shaw v. Hitchcock, 119 Mass. 256; Martine v.

In old English law. A writ of exchange. A license in the shape of a writ,formerly granted to an English merchant to draw a bill of exchange on another inforeign parts. Reg.

See ELISORS.

This word occurs frequently in the constitution of the United States, andit is there used in different meanings: (1) To settle firmly, to fix unalterably ; as toestablish justice, which is the

A species of estate in expectancy, created by operation oflaw, being the residue of an estate left in tlie grantor, to commence in possession afterthe determination of some particular estate granted out

And it is adjourned. A phrase used in the old reports, where theargument of a cause was adjourned to another day, or where a second argument washad. 1 Keb. 692, 754, 773.

And he did so. Yearb. P. 9 Hen. VI. 17.

Having the quality of evidence ; constituting evidence; evidencing. A term Introduced by Bentham, and, fromits convenience, adopted by other writers.

L. Lat. By title.

Out of purchase; founded on purchase. A term of the civil law, adoptedby Bracton. Inst. 4, 6, 28; Bract fol. 102. See ACTIO EX EMPTO.

Of his own mere motion; of his own accord; voluntarily and without prompting or request. Royal letters patent which are granted at the crown’s own instance, and without request made, are said

According to the rigor or strictness of law; in strictness of law. Fleta, lib. 3, c. 10,

In English law. A person appointed by a court to take the examination ofwitnesses in an action, i. e., to take down the result of their interrogation by the partiesor their counsel,

In old English law. A sluice to carry off water; the payment to the lord for the benefit of such a sluice. Cowell.

Lat. The doing or following up of a thing; the doing a thing completelyor thoroughly; management or administration.In old practice. Execution; the final process in an action.

Persons who are not bound by law, but excused from the performance of duties imposed upon others.

A complainant in articles of the peace. 12 Adol. & E. 509.