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EVERY

Each one of all; the term includes all the separate individuals who constitute the whole, regarded one by one. Geary v. Parker, 65 Ark. 521, 47 S. W. 238; Purdy v.People, 4

EVICT

In the civil law. To recover anything from a person by virtue of the judgmentof a court or judicial sentence.At common law. To dispossess, or turn out of the possession of lands

EVICTION

Dispossession by process of law ; the act of depriving a person of thepossession of lands which he has held, in pursuance of the judgment of a court. Reasonerv. Edmundson, 5 Ind.

EVIDENTIARY

Having the quality of evidence ; constituting evidence; evidencing. A term Introduced by Bentham, and, fromits convenience, adopted by other writers.

EVOCATION

In French law. The withdrawal of a cause from the cognizance of aninferior court, and bringing it before another court or judge. In some respects thisprocess resembles the proceedings upon certiorari.

EWAGE

(L. Fr. Ewe, water.) In old English law. Toll paid for water passage, Thesame as aquage. Tomlins.

EX

1. A Latin preposition meaning from, out of, by, on, on account of, or according to.2. A prefix, denoting removal or cessation. Prefixed to the name of an office, relation,status, etc., it

EX ABUNDANTI

Out of abundance; abundantly; superfluously ; more tban sufficient Calvin.

EX ABUNDANTI CAUTEEA

Lat. Out of abundant caution. “The practice has arisen abundmti cautcla.” 8 East, 32(5; LordEllenborough, 4 Maule & S. 544.

EX ADVERSO

On the other side. 2 Show. 461. Applied to counsel.

EX iEQUO ET BONO

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.

EX ALTERA PARTE

Of the other part Ex antecedentibns et conseqnentibua fit optima interpretatio. The best interpretation[of a part of an instrument] is made from the antecedents and the consequents, [fromthe preceding, and following parts.]

EX ARBITRIO JUDICIS

At, in, or upon the discretion of the judge. 4 Bl. Comm. 304. A term of the civil law. Inst. 4, 6,31.

EX ASSENSU PATRIS

By or with the consent of the father. A species of dower adostium ecclesite, during the life of the father of the husband; the son, by the father’sconsent expressly given, endowing his

EX ASSENSU SUO

With his assent Formal words in judgments for damages by default. Comb. 220.

EX BONIS

Of the goods or property. A term of the civil law; .distinguished from inbonis, as being descriptive of or applicable to property not in actual possession. Calvin.

EX CATHEDRA

From the chair. Originally applied to the decisions of thepopes from their cathedra, or chair. Hence, authoritative; having the weight of authority.

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