Each — Law Dictionary

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

Every one of the two' or more individuals composing the whole, considered separately from the rest. 102 111. 233. EADEM CAUSA DIVERSIS RATIONIBUS coram Judlcibus ecclesiasticis et eecularibus ventllatur. The same cause is argued upon different principles before ecclesiastical and secular judges. 2 Inst. 622.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

A distributive adjective pronoun, which denotes or refers to every one of the persons or things mentioned; every one of two or more persons or things, composing the whole, separately considered. The effect of this word, used in the covenants of a bond, is to create a several obligation. Seiler v. State, 160 Ind. 605, 67 N. H. 448; Knickerbocker v. People, 102 III. 233; Costi-gan v. Lunt, 104 Mass. 219.

A Dictionary of Law

William C. Anderson · 1889

Every one of the two or more composing the whole. Foreign express companies being exempted, in Kentucky, from local taxation by paying a State tax, a provision in the charter of a city authorizing it to tax "each" express company was held not to apply to foreign companies.' A, a testator, gave C and T "two thousand dollars each." The legatees were brother and sister, not related to the testator. C died before A. Held, that the legacy was of two thousand dollars to each legatee individually, and not of four thousand dollars to a class, and that the legacy to C lapsed." Compare A, 4; All; Any; Every.