Category: E

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

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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.

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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,

To make larger; to increase; to extend a time limit; to grant further Ume.Also to set at liberty one who has been imprisoned or in custody.

v. To settle or limit the succession to real property; to create an estate tail.

Benefit, etc. These words in the habendum of a trust-deed for the benefit of a married woman are equivalent to the words “sole use,” or “sole and separate use,” and consequently her

In Saxon law. An oath.

An officer of state under the master of the horse.

Lat. Therefore; hence; because.

An old English law term, signifying exchange.

In old law. A hireling of servile condition.

An ordinance or statute. Especially used of those ordinances orstatutes passed In the reign of Edw. I. 2 Inst. 156; Britt c. 21.

See ESTATE IN FEE- TAIL.