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EXECUTORY USE

The term applied to a trust or an interest that will arise at a time in the future.

ENDORSEMENT BLANK

the term given to an endorsement not specifying anyone in particular and permits negotiation of a payment.

EXEMPT INCOME

This term applies to any income that you don’t pay tax on.

ERROR IN FACT

the error made when a court gives a judgement or verdict and doesn’t know of a fact.

EASEMENT BY CUSTOM

This when another person’s property has been used for a long period of time and is not obtained legally but by custom.

EQUITY JURISDICTION

an authority that is based on the nature of a matter and it will be dealt with an equitable deliberation and not one of laws.

EASEMENT OF ACCESS

the right given to use a pathway or a road to a property that belongs to another person to give access to a road.

EQUITABLE PLEA

a defence in a law suit that is based on equity matters. It is the same as an equitable defence.

ERA

the abbreviation for a proposed amendment, Equal Rights Amendment to the US Constitution.

EQUITABLE RELIEF

This term applies to the assistance to a complainant seeking a just and fair remedy from the court. See relief.

EQUAL RIGHTS STATUTES

These are the laws stating that there can be no discrimination made because of a person’s sex, colour, age or race.

ENTREATY

the word that means to supplicate or to beg and plead in earnest.

EQUITY OF STATUTE

This term relates to the intent and the spirit that underlies a law and aids in its interpretation.

EXCLUSIONARY RULE

a doctrine that will prevent the illegally gathered evidence being presented to the court.

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