Eloign
Defined in 6 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Kinney (1893), Anderson (1889), Stimson (1881), Burrill (1850)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
or ELOIGNE. To remove to a distance. See "Elongata."
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
eloin, eloine, esloin, To remove, or send a moved or carried away to
A Dictionary of Law
William C. Anderson · 1889
3 When the sheriff seeks to replevy goods distrained, and finds them carried out of the county, or concealed, he may return that they ai'e eloigned, elongata, carried to a distance, to places to him unknown.* See Capere, Capias, Withernam. When, under ancient practice, he sought to replevy a man and found him conveyed out of bailiwick he made return that the person was elongatus.' Eloignment. Removal of goods distrained, to prevent a replevy. Sloiguer. He who makes an eloign ment.
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
Elongare, /., Eloignment of goods they could not be vit: he hath eloigned.
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
Eloin, Eloine, Esloin. [L. Fr. eloigner, esloiner; L. Lat. elongare.] In practice. To remove, or send a great way off, (longum iter). F. N. B. 68, 69, 74. 3 Bl. Com. 148. Applied to persons, by Stat. 13 Edw. I. c. 15, but generally to chattels. See infra.