Category: E

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.

The forces of nature. The elements are the means through which God acts, and “damages by the elements” means the same thing as “damages by the act of God.” Polack v. Pioche,

The message or commission given by a sovereign orstate to a minister, called an “ambassador,” empowered to treat or communicate withanother sovereign or state; also the establishment of an ambassador.

An honorary title given to cardinals. They were called “illiistrUsimi” and “reverendissimi” until the pontificate of Urban VIII.

A practitioner in medicine or surgery, who proceeds on experience only,without science or legal qualification; a quack. Nelson v. State Board of Health. 108 Ky.709, 57 S. W. 501, 50 L. R.

In the civil law. Purchase. This form of the word is used in the Digests andCode. Dig. 18, 1; Cod. 4, 49. See EMPTIO.

The act of 32 Henry VIII. c. 28, by which tenants In tall, husbands seised in right of their wives, andothers, were empowered to make leases for their lives or for twenty-one

To make free; to enfranchise.

This is said to be a word of very general signification; and, when used in an act, its meaning must be sought out from the act itself, and the language which surrounds

In old practice and pleading. Unlawful or wrongful acts; wrongs. Et aliaenormia, and other wrongs. This phrase constantly occurs in the old writs and declarationsof trespass.

The old form of intendment, (q. v.) derived directly from the French,and used to denote the true meaning or signification of a word or sentence; that is, theunderstanding or construction of law.

Span. Deliverv. Las Par- tidas, pt. 0, tit. 14, 1. 1.

In Spanish law. A term synonymous with “equity” in one of its senses,and defined as “the benignant and prudent interpretation of the law according to thecircumstances of the time, place, and person.”

Just; conformable to the principles of natural justice and right.Just, fair, and right, in consideration of the facts and circumstances of the individualcase.Existing in equity; available or sustainable only in equity, or

By metonymy, this term is used to describe the office or functions of ajudge, whose state robe, lined with ermine, is emblematical of purity and honor withoutstain. Webster.

In English law. The name of an officer who was appointed in everycounty to look after the escheats which fell due to the king in that particular county,and to certify the same

In Spanish law. A junction of all the separate papers made in thecourse of any one proceeding and which remains In the office at the close of it. Castillerov. U. S., 2

In Spanish law. Delay in a voyage, or in the delivery of cargo, caused bythe charterer or consignee, for which demurrage is payable.