Category: E

Tending or seeking to evade; elusive; shifting ; as an evasive argument or plea.

Of the other part Ex antecedentibns et conseqnentibua fit optima interpretatio. The best interpretation[of a part of an instrument] is made from the antecedents and the consequents, [fromthe preceding, and following parts.]

From or out of a contract. In both the civil and the common law, rights and causes of action are dividedinto two classes,

From a just or lawful cause; by a just or legal title.

After the fact; by an act or fact occurring after some previous actor fact, and relating thereto; by subsequent matter; the opposite of ab initio. Thus, adeed may be good ab initio,

From sight of the writing; from having seen a person write.A term employed to describe one of the modes of proof of handwriting. Best, Pres. 218.

In old English law. A party who entered an exception or plea.

In English law. An excuser.In old German law. A defendant; he who utterly denies the plaintiff’s claim. Du Cauge.Excnsatur quis quod clameum non op- posuerit, ut si toto tempore litigii fuit ultramare

A woman who has been appointed by will to execute such will or testament.

In old European law. An army; an armed force. The term was absolutelyindefinite as to number. It was applied, on various occasions, to a gathering offorty-two armed men, of thirty-five, or even

Banishment; the person banished.

In Mexican law, a term including all the papers or documents constitutinga grant or title to laud from government Vanderslice v. Hanks, 3 Cal. 27, 38.

From the opposite; on the contrary.

In the law of evidence. One who attests or can attest anything asheard ‘by himself.

The drip or dropping of water from the eaves of a house on the land of anadjacent owner; the easement of having the water so drip, or the servitude ofsubmitting to such

In French marine law. Stranding. Emerig. Tr. des Ass. c. 12, s. 13, no. 1.

Within the meaning of a statute relative to the powers and duties ofguardians, this term comprehends not merely the instruction received at school or college,but the whole course of training, moral, intellectual,

In English law. The oldest; the first-born. Spelman.

In Spanish law. Commons; lands used In common by the inhabitants of acity, pueblo, or town, for pasture, wood, threshing-ground, etc. Hart v. Burnett, 15 Cal. 554.

The body of princes formerly entitled to elect the emperor of Germany.Also a name sometimes given, in the United States, to the body of electorschosen by the people to elect the president