Category: E

A subtle endeavoring to set aside truth or to escape the punishment ofthe law. This will not be allowed. If one person says to another that he will not strikehim, but will

A phrase derived from the civil law, meaning, in justice andfairness; according to what is just and good; according to equity and conscience. 3 Bl.Comm. 163.

Immediately; without any interval or delay ; incontinently. A term of the civil law. Calvin.

Anew; arresu

A writ that lay for a bailiff or receiver, who, having auditorsappointed to take his accounts, cannot obtain of them reasonable allowance, but is castinto prison. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 129.Ex paucis dictis

From the bowels. From the vital part, the very essence of thething. 10 Coke, 246; Homer v. Shelton, 2 Mete. (Mass.) 213. Ex visceribus verborum,from the mere words and nothing else. 1

Lat. With all necessary exceptions.

In the civil law. An excuse or reason which exempts from some duty or obligation.

A female executor. Hardr. 165, 473. See EXECUTRIX.

In old English law. A heriot paid only in arms, horses, or military accouterments.

Denmndable; requirable.

To await; to look forward to something intended, promised, or likely tohappen. Atchison, etc., R. Co. v. Ilamliu, 07 Kan. 470, 73 Pac. 58.

That extreme measure of care and caution which persons of unusual prudence andcircumspection use for securing and preserving their own property or rights. Civ. CodeGa. 1805.

In English law. Such grass which is upon the land after the mowing, until the feast of the Annunciation after. 3 Leon. 213.

Any place where food or refreshments of any kind, not includingspirits, wines, ale, beer, or other malt liquors, are provided for casual visitors, and soldfor consumption therein. Act Cong. July 13, 1806,

In French law. A municipal officer corresponding with alderman orburgess, and having in some instances a civil jurisdiction in certain causes of trifling importance.

This is the first collection of law that was made after the downfall of the Roman power in Italy. It waspromulgated by Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths, at Rome in A. D.

In Scotch law. An addition; as, eik to a reversion, etfc, to a confirmation. Bell.

In old English law. A whoremonger. Blount

Persons chosen by the people at a so-called “presidential election,” to elect a president and vice-president of the United States.