Category: E

And another. The abbreviation et al. (sometimes in the plural written etals.) is affixed to the name of the person first mentioned, where there are severalplaintiffs, grantors, persons addressed, etc.

The code of honor agreed on by mutual understanding and tacitly accepted bymembers of the legal profession, especially by the bar. Wharton.Eum qui nocentem infamat, non est ceqnum et bonnm ob earn

1. A Latin preposition meaning from, out of, by, on, on account of, or according to.2. A prefix, denoting removal or cessation. Prefixed to the name of an office, relation,status, etc., it

Out of comity or courtesy.

By a fiction of law.Ex frequentl delicto augetur poena2 Inst 479. Punishmeut Increases with increasing crime.

Of necessity. 3 Rep. Ch. 123.

From or in consequence of time; by lapse of time. Bract fols. 51, 52.Ex diuturno tempore, from length of time. Id. fol. 516. Without preparation or premeditation.

An exchange; a place where merchants meet to transact their business;also au equivalent in recompense; a recompense in lieu of dower ad ostium ccclesix.

A sentence of censure pronounced by one of the spiritualcourts for offenses falling under ecclesiastical coguizance. It is described in the booksas twofold: (1) The lesser excommunication, which is an ecclesiastical censure,excluding

A writ directed to the judge of an inferior court to doexecution upon a judgment therein, or to return some reasonable cause wherefore hedelays the execution. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 20.

To make use of. Thus, to exercise a right or power is to do somethingwhich it enables the holder to do. U. S. v. Souders, 27 Fed. Cas. 1267; Cleaver v.Comm., 34

Disinterment; the removal from the earth of anything previous lyburied therein, particularly a human corpse.

. A writ that lay for the crown’s ward, to be free from all suitto the county court, hundred court, leet, etc., during wardship. Fitzh. Nat Brev. 158.

An archbishop.

The name of a royal manor in the county of Keut, England;mentioned In royal grants or patents, as descriptive of the tenure of free socage.

In New England. A church court or tribunal, having functions partly judicial andpartly advisory, appointed to determine questions relating to church discipline,orthodoxy, standing of ministers, controversies between ministers and their churches,differences and

In the Roman law. An edict; a mandate, or ordinance. An ordinance, orlaw, enacted by the emperor without the senate; belonging to the class of constitutionesprincipis. Inst. 1, 2. 6. An edict

In Saxon law. Ways, walks, or hedges. Blount

Ejection, or ejectment of farm. The name of a writ or action oftrespass, which lay at common law where lands or tenements were let for a term ofyears, and afterwards the lessor,

Dependent upon choice; bestowed or passing by election. Also pertainingor relating to elections; conferring the right or power to vote at elections.