Erasure

The obliteration of a writing, or part thereof. It will render it void or not under the same circumstances as an interlineation. See 5 Pet. (U. S.) 560; 11 Coke, 88; 4 Cruise, Dig.,368; 13 Viner, Abr. 41; Fitzg. 207; 5 Bing. 183; 3 Car. & P. 55; 2 Wend. (N. Y.) 555; 11 Conn. 531; 5 Mart. (La.) 190; 2 La. 291; 3 La. 56; 4 La. 270. ERCISCUNDUS (Lat. erciscere). For dividing. Familiae erciscundae actio, an action for dividing away goods, or any matter of inheritance. Vicat; Calv. Lex. EREGIMUS (Lat. we have erected). A word proper to be used in the creation of a new office by the sovereign. Bac. Abr. "Of-

The obliteration of a writing. The effect of an erasure is not per se to destroy the writing in which it occurs, but is a question for the jury, and will render the writing void or not. under the same circumstances as an interlineation. See 11 Co. vs; 5 Bingh. 1S.;: Bailey v. Taylor. 11 Conn. 531, 29 Am. Dec. 321; S.-lihellas v. Reeves- Curator, 3 La. 56; Brooks v. Allen. (12 Ind. 401; Whittlesey v. Hughes, 39 Mo. 34; Cole v. Hills. 11 X. II. 227; Page v. Donaher,43 Wis. 221; Dodge v. Haskell. 69 Me. 429; Simpson v. Davis. 110 Mass. 269, 20 Am. Rep. 324. Se,> Alteration; Interlineation. ERCISCUNDUS (Lat. erviseere). For dividing. Familia • crcisruitda? actio. An action

A scraping or rubbing out ing, by scraping the letters from moval of a part of a writing, by where a part of a writing has been

Theobliteration of words or marks froma written instrument by rubbing, scraping, or scratching them out. Also the place in adocument where a word or words have been so removed. The term is sometimes used for the removal of parts of a wriling by any means whatever, as by cancellation; but this is not an accurate use.

See Alteration, 2.