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EPISCOPALIAN

Of or pertaining to episcopacy, or to the Episcopal Church.

EQUIVALENT

In patent law. Any act or substance which is known in the arts as aproper substitute for some other act or substance employed as an element in the invention,whose substitution for that

ERRANT

Wandering; Itinerant; applied to justices on circuit, and bailiffs at large, etc.

ESCOT

A tax formerly paid in boroughs and corporations towards the support of thecommunity, which is called “scot and lot.”

ESPURIO

Span. In Spanish law. A spurious child; one begotten on a womanwho has promiscuous intercourse with many men. White, New Recop. b. 1, tit 5, c. 2,

ESTATE

1. The interest which any one has in lands, or in any other subject ofproperty. 1 Brest. Est. 20. And see Van Itensselaer v. Boucher, 5 Denio (N. Y.) 40; Beallv. Holmes,

ESTOVEHIIS HABENDIS

A writ for a wife judicially separated to recover her alimonyor estovers. Obsolete.

ET HABEAS IBI TUNC HOC BREVE

And have you then there this writ. The formal words directing the return of a writ. Theliteral translation is retained in the modern form of a considerable number of writs.

EVASION

A subtle endeavoring to set aside truth or to escape the punishment ofthe law. This will not be allowed. If one person says to another that he will not strikehim, but will

EX iEQUO ET BONO

A phrase derived from the civil law, meaning, in justice andfairness; according to what is just and good; according to equity and conscience. 3 Bl.Comm. 163.

EX CONTINENTI

Immediately; without any interval or delay ; incontinently. A term of the civil law. Calvin.

EX PARTE TALIS

A writ that lay for a bailiff or receiver, who, having auditorsappointed to take his accounts, cannot obtain of them reasonable allowance, but is castinto prison. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 129.Ex paucis dictis

EX VISCERIBUS

From the bowels. From the vital part, the very essence of thething. 10 Coke, 246; Homer v. Shelton, 2 Mete. (Mass.) 213. Ex visceribus verborum,from the mere words and nothing else. 1

EXCUSATIO

In the civil law. An excuse or reason which exempts from some duty or obligation.

EXECUTRESS

A female executor. Hardr. 165, 473. See EXECUTRIX.

EXERCITUAL

In old English law. A heriot paid only in arms, horses, or military accouterments.

EXPECT

To await; to look forward to something intended, promised, or likely tohappen. Atchison, etc., R. Co. v. Ilamliu, 07 Kan. 470, 73 Pac. 58.

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