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ENACTING CLANSE

That part of a statute which declares its enactment and serves toidentify it as an act of legislation proceeding from the proper legislative authority.Various formulas are used for this clause, such as

ENDOWED SCHOOLS

In England, certain schools having endowments are distinctivelyknown as “endowed schools;” and a series of acts of parliament regulatingthem are known as the “endowed schools acts.” Mozley & Whitley.

ENGLISH MARRIAGE

This phrase may refer to the place where the marriage issolemnized, or it may refer to the nationality and domicile of the parties between whomit is solemnized, the place where the union

ENPLEET

Anciently used for implead. Cowell.

ENTERING JUDGMENTS

The formal entry of the judgment on the rolls of the court, which is necessary before bringing an appeal or an action on the judgment. Blatchford v.Newberry, 100 111. 401; Winstead v.

ENTRY

1. In real property law. Entry is the act of going peaceably upon a piece ofland which is claimed as one’s own, but which is held by another person, with theintention and

EPISCOPALIA

In ecclesiastical law. Synodals, pentecostals, and other customarypayments from the clergy to their diocesan bishop, formerly collected by the ruraldeans. Cowell.

EQUITY

1. In its broadest and most general signification, this term denotes the spirit and the habit of fairness, justness, and right dealing which would regulate the intercourse of men with men.

EROSION

The gradual eating away of the soil by the operation of currents or tides.Distinguished from submergcncc, which is the disappearance of the soil under the waterand the formation of a navigable body

ESPOUSALS

A mutual promise between a man and a woman to marry each other atsome other time. It differs from a marriage, because then the contract is completed.Wood, Inst. 57.

ESTOPPEL

A bar or impediment raised by the law, which precludes a man from alleging or from denying a certain fact or state of facts, in consequence of his previous allegation or denial

ET EI LEGITUR IN H

L. Lat And it is read to him in these words. Words formerly used in entering the prayer ofoyer on record.

EVASIO

Lat. In old practice. An escape from prison or custody. Reg. Orig. 312.

EX INDUSTRIA

With contrivance or deliberation; designedly; on purpose. Seel Kent,Comm. 318; Martin v. Hunter, 1 r Wheat. 334, 4 L. Ed. 97.

EX PARTE PATERNA

On the father’s side; of the paternal line.The phrases “ex parte materna” and “cx parte paterna” denote the line or blood ofthe mother or father, and have no such restricted or limited

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