Category: E

In the civil law. To spoil; to rob or plunder. Applied to inheritances. Dig.47, 19; Cod. 9, 32.

A gold coin of the United States of the value of ten dollars.

Soil of all kinds, including gravel, clay, loam, and the like, in distinction fromthe firm rock. Dickinson v. Pough- keepsie, 75 N. Y. 70.

In criminal law and medical jurisprudence. Personal or individualpeculiarities of mind and disposition which markedly distinguish the subject from theordinary, normal, or average types of men, but do not amount to mental

A positive law promulgated by the sovereign of a country, and having referenceeither to the whole land or some of its divisions, but usually relating to affairs ofstate. It differs from a

A breach made by the use of force.

In old English law. A woman ravished or deflowered, or cast forth from the virtuous. Blount.

He or she who has the greatest age.The “eldest son” is the first-born son. If there is only one son, he may still be describedas the “eldest.” L. R. 7 H. L

See CORPORATIONS.

The act by which one who was unfree. or under the power and control of another, is set at liberty and made his own master. Fremont v. Sandowu, 50 N. H. 303;

The epoch or date whence any people begin to compute their time.

In the civil law. The person to whom an emphyteusis is granted; the lessee or tenant under a contract of emphyteusis.

Purchase and sale; sornelimes translated “emp- tion and vendition.” The nameof the contract of sale in the Roman law. Inst. 3. 23; Bract, fol. 016. Sometimes made acompound word,cmptio-venditio.

Fr. On the way; in the course of a voyage or journey; in course oftransportation. McLean v. U. S., 17 CL CI. 90.

See INCUMBRANCE.

The act of making free; giving a franchise or freedom to;investiture with privileges or capacities of freedom, or municipal or political liberty.Admission to the freedom of a city; admission to political rights,

A species of release which inures by way of enlarging anestate, and consists of a conveyance of the ulterior interest to the particular tenant; asif there be tenant for life or years,

Settled or limited to specified heirs, or in tail.

The whole, in contradistinction to, a moiety or part only. When land isconveyed to husband and wife, they do not take by moieties, but both are seised of theentirety. 2 Kent, Comm.

This term, in its ordinary and popular meaning, applies to any diseasewhich is widely spread or generally prevailing at a given place and time. Pohalski v.Mutual L. Ins. Co., 36 N. Y.