Ballentine's Law Dictionary

From; out of.

The same cause is with different reasons argued before both ecclesiastical and secular judges.

The same reason, the same law. See 7 Pick. (Mass.) 493.

The king’s mind is presumed to be in accord with law and as it should be, especially in doubtful matters.

That interpretation is to be accepted which is without fault.

A United States coin of ten dollars value.

With that intention.

A chief.

An archbishop.

An alehouse.

Those things which are said in commendation at sales, if they appear openly, do not bind the seller.

Those things which it is impossible to give or which are not in being are held not to apply.

Those things which are regularly done in our court should be included in the execution debt.

Those things which rarely happen are not rashly taken into account in business transactions.

An English title of nobility below that of a marquis and above that of a viscount.

The jurisdiction or dignity of an earl.

Earnest-money given to bind a bargain.

The eighth great officer of state in England.

Same as Count palatine.

An identifying or distinguishing mark; a peculiar slit made in the ears of cattle and sheep for identification.

A part payment of the price. See 108 Mass. 54, 11 Am. Rep. 306.

The rewards of labor or services. See 102 Am. St. Rep. 97, note.

One testifying to what he has heard; one testifying to hearsay.

A liberty, privilege, or advantage in land, without profit, and existing distinct from the ownership of the soil. See 113 Iowa, 122, 86 Am. St. Rep. 367, and note, 84 N. W. 949.

An incorporeal right which is attached to and belongs with some greater or superior right. See 136 Am. St. Rep. 685, note.

A mere personal interest in land, not appurtenant to any other land. See 136 Am. St. Rep. 683, note.

Dues paid to the clergy at Easter.

An English court term from April 15th to May 8th.

A royal manor in Kent.

Let him go hence without day.

Water.

Rain-water dripping from the eaves of a house.

One guilty of lying in wait to overhear conversation. See 75 Am. Dec. 773, note.

The offense of lying in wait to overhear conversation.

The falling of the tide.

Ebb.

Same as Aberemurder.

Ecclesiastical.

A church.

The church ought not to pay tithes to the church.

The church is the mansion-house of the omnipotent God.

The church is under age and in the custody of the king, who is bound to sustain and defend her rights and inheritances.

The church occupies the position of a minor; she can make her own condition better, but never worse.

The church is more to be favored than the individual.

The church does not die.

Ecclesiastical; a churchman.

Religious; pertaining to the church.

A court instituted by Elizabeth with great powers in religious matters.

Religious corporations.

English courts presided over by the clergy.

The law enforced in the ecclesiastical courts.

A secretary or clerk employed in the ecclesiastical courts and councils.

Ecclesiastical.

On the contrary; on the other hand.

Conversely.

Belonging to the whole of Christian church.

Estre, to be.

A mandatory or prohibitory law issued by a sovereign.

See Edictum Theodorici .

An edict.

The edict of Theodoric, a code compiled in the 6th century for the Roman subjects of Theodoric.

Same as Aedile.

Issued; promulgated.

King of England, 1272-1307.

King of England, 1307-1327.

King of England, 1327-1377.

King of England, 1461-1483.

King of England, April-June, 1483.

King of England, 1547-1553.

King of Great Britain, etc., 1901-1910.

Errors excepted; used in accounts.

See In effect .

In force; in effect. Effective money. Coin.

Property. See 14 Am. Dec. 577, note.

The act should be punished that the consequence may not follow. See 5 Har. & J. (Md.) 317, 9 Am. Dec. 534.

The effect follows the cause.

A stuffed figure made to represent some person.

The flow of time.

Lapse of time. Efforce. To force.

Forcibly.

A forcible breaking. Effractor. A housebreaker.

Housebreakers; burglars.

To clothe with a franchise.

Same as affray.

Bloodshed. Egality. Equality.

Exempli gratia, for example.

To eject.

A church.

I, such a one.

Going forth and issuing.

An island.

The eldest.

The burden of proof is upon him who alleges, not upon him who denies.

An addition.

An eldest son’s share.

Inasmuch as.

Errant; wandering.

Same as Eyre.

An obligation which arises in contract or quasi contract is dissolved in the same manner in which it is contracted.

The eldest.