Eorle

Sax. [L. Lat. eoria.] A word adopted by the Saxons from the Danish jarl, and applied to the ealderman, and afterwards to the count {comes) of the Normans. Hence the English earl. Spelman, voc. Eorla. Oilb. C. Fleas, Introd. notes.

1 Bl. Com. 398.

See Earl. The first mention of eorl or eorle is in the laws of Canute, par.

2, c. 69.

Spelman, ub. sup. Through ignorance of the Saxon letters, this word is printed cople, in the French edition of Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws, (ed. Sarrebruck, 1782, lib. 30, c. 18,) and the error is retamed in the English translation. (Am. ed. Worcester, 1802.) 54 Eir AYTQ^SIPJI, E7eav Toq>6gta. Gr. (from inl, in, dv Tbg, very, and <p Siqa, theft.] n the (Greek) civil law. In the very act; in the act of theft.

Inst. 4. 1. 3. Schrev.

Lex.

See Furtum manifestum.