Category: E

According to the rigor or strictness of law; in strictness of law. Fleta, lib. 3, c. 10,

In English law. A person appointed by a court to take the examination ofwitnesses in an action, i. e., to take down the result of their interrogation by the partiesor their counsel,

In old English law. A sluice to carry off water; the payment to the lord for the benefit of such a sluice. Cowell.

Lat. The doing or following up of a thing; the doing a thing completelyor thoroughly; management or administration.In old practice. Execution; the final process in an action.

Persons who are not bound by law, but excused from the performance of duties imposed upon others.

A complainant in articles of the peace. 12 Adol. & E. 509.

In old English law. Outlawry. Spelman.

Persons examined as witnesses in a cause, who testify in regard to someprofessional or technical matter arising in the case, and who are permitted to give theiropinions as to such matter on

A gold coin of the United States of the value of ten dollars.

Soil of all kinds, including gravel, clay, loam, and the like, in distinction fromthe firm rock. Dickinson v. Pough- keepsie, 75 N. Y. 70.

In criminal law and medical jurisprudence. Personal or individualpeculiarities of mind and disposition which markedly distinguish the subject from theordinary, normal, or average types of men, but do not amount to mental

A positive law promulgated by the sovereign of a country, and having referenceeither to the whole land or some of its divisions, but usually relating to affairs ofstate. It differs from a

A breach made by the use of force.

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

See CORPORATIONS.

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.