A Dictionary of Law
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To throw off or renounce one’s country or native allegiance; to expatriate one’s self. Phillim. Dom. 18.
To overcome; toapprehend or take. Leg. Edm. c¢. 2. EY. A watery place; water. Co, Litt. 6.
In old English law. To exileor banish. MNullus diber homo, exuletur, nisi, etc., no freeman shall be exiled, unless, etc. Magna Charta, c, 29; 2 Inst. 47.
Of one part or side; on one side,
On both sides. Dyer, 1266. EX UTRISQUE PARENTIBUS CON-
From the bowels. From the vital part, the very essence of the thing. 10 Coke, 24b; 2 Metc. (Muass.) 213, Ex visceribus verborum, from the mere words and nothing else. 10 Johns. 494
By the dispensation of God; by reason of physical incapacity. Anciently, when a prisoner, being arraigned, stood silent instead of pleading, a jury was impaneled to inquire whether
From or by the force of the term. From the very meaning of the expression used, 2 Bl. Comm. 109, 115.
An abbreviation for et atii, “and others,”
Aid; assistance; relief. A subsidy.
- Eye-Witnessdefined inCyclopedic (1922)Ballentine's (1916)Bouvier (1914)Black's (1910)Kinney (1893)Black's (1891)
One whe saw the act, fact, or transaction to which he testifies. Distinguished from an ear-witness, (auritus.)
- Eyottdefined inCyclopedic (1922)Ballentine's (1916)Black's (1910)Black's (1891)Stimson (1881)Burrill (1850)Bouvier (1839)
A small island arising ina river. Fieta, 1. 3, ¢. 2, § b; Bract. 1. 2, ¢. 2.
- Eyredefined inCyclopedic (1922)Ballentine's (1916)Bouvier (1914)Black's (1910)Kinney (1893)Black's (1891)Stimson (1881)Burrill (1850)
Justices in eyre were judges commissioned in Anglo-Norman times in England to travel systematically through the kingdom, once in seven years, holding courts in specifled places for
- Eyrerdefined inBallentine's (1916)Bouvier (1914)Black's (1910)Kinney (1893)Black's (1891)Burrill (1850)
Fr. To travel or journey; to go about or itinerate. Britt. c. 2.
In Hindu law. <A farmer or renter of land in the districts of Hindooi. F. In old English criminal law, this letter was branded upon felons upon their being admitted to clergy; as a