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EXTREME CARE

the care that a sensible person will use when faced with a dangerous event or condition.

ENABLE

the word that means to give a person the power to be able to do something.

ESTOPPEL BYCONTRACT

a bar that will renounce or renege that facts that have already been agreed to in a contract.

EXIGENCY OF A BOND

the act or the performance on which a bond is conditioned or the conditions of the bond.

EXTRANEOUS EVIDENCE

1. applied to any evidence that comes from outside the court. 2. Any evidence that is not pertinent to matters at hand.

EXPECTANT RIGHT

a right that depends on the continuing of present conditions. See expectant estates.

EXPRESS ASSUMPSIT

This the agreement and the obligation to act that is stated in explicit terms.

EXTRINSIC FRAUD

the term given to the deceit that lays the groundwork for setting aside a judgement.

EXPROMISSOR A

This term is given to the person who takes over another person’s debt and releases from it.

ELECTION UNDER A WILL

a choice to accept a benefit from a will and relinquish your claim or to retain he claim and to reject the benefit.

EMPOWER

the word that means to grant the authority, to delegate and to commission.

ESCALATOR CLAUSE

a clause in a contract or a lease that is made during a time of government price control regulations.

EQUITABLE CONSTRUCTION

This applies to the interpretation of a statute by narrowing or making larger the letter of the law.

ENCUMBRANCER

1. The person with a legal claim against an estate. 2. The person with a lien on a property where the value is diminished until the encumbrance is removed.

EQUITABLE RULE

a rule that is issued by a court of equity that is just and fair.

ELECTROCARDIOGRAM

a device that is used to record the electric currents of the various chambers of the heart. Also called an ECG one EKG.

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