Easterly
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
This word, when used alone, will be construed to mean “due east.” But that is a rule of necessity growing out of the indetfiniteness of the term, and has no application where other words are used for the purpose of qualifying ils meaning. Where such is the case, instead of meaning “due east,” it moans precisely what the qualifying word makes if mean, 32 Cal. 227.