A Law Dictionary and Glossary

enfreinder, I. fr. To freint: broiien.

I. In the civil law. A calendar, a book of accounts; a book of accounts of money loaned out on interest, — so called because the interest was received on the calends of each month.

In English law. Such grass as remains after mowing, and until the feast of the Annunciation. Earl". The most ancient title of nobility in England, and formerly the highest, but now

karle, carl, sax. In Saxon and old English law. A man; a serving man.

The office, jurisdiction or dignity of an earl.

A mark put upon a thing to distinguish it from another, — originally a mark put upon the ear, as a mode of distinguishing animails.

A part of the price of goods sold, or a portion of the goods themselves, delivered by one of the parties to a contract of sale to the other, to bind the bargain.

A privilege in land, without profit, existing distinct from an ownership of the soil.

In English law. One of the four annual terms of the superior courts, beginning on April 15th and ending on May 8th.

I. I. Let him go thence without day, — words used in recording judgment for a defendant

In English law. The offense of listening under walls or windows, or the eaves of a house, and thereupon to frame slanderous and mischievous tales, — a misdemeanor at common law.

1. 1. In old English law. Ebb. Ebba et fluctns: ebb and flow of tide; ebb and flood.

eberemorth, sax. In Saxon law. Open killing or murder, as distinguished from manslaughter, v. Aberemurder.

gr.-l. An effusion of blood under the skin.

I In English law. A church; a place of religious worship; a parsonage, the living or beneflce. Ecclesia ecclesise decimas solvere non debet: the church ought not to pay tithes to t

Belonging to or connected with the church. Ecclesiastical law: law administered bj the ecclesiastical courts, — in England compounded of the civil law, the canon law, the common la

In Scots laiv. A citation published at the marketcross of Edinburgii, and the pier and shore of Leith.

I. In the Roman law. An edict; a mandate or ordinance; an ordinance or law enacted by the emperor without the senate; a general order published by the praetor, on entering upon off

seditns, I. In old English law. Put forth; published or promulgated; passed as a law; brought forth or born, as a child.

Instruction of the mental, moral and physical powers and faculties, or of any of them. /

I. In old English law. To go back; to recede; to draw back; to retire or be dismissed from court Eecedet inde reus qnietus imperpetnnm, I. The defendant shall go quit thereof forev

1. 1. In old English law. A person impaneled on an assise.

rettare, retare, 1. 1. In old English law. To accuse; to charge.

1. Right; upright; straight; straight forward; direct Bectns in curia: right in court; free from charge or impeachment

I. In the Soman law. Persons appointed by the prsetor, in private actions, to examine the facts, or try the cause.

I. I. To release. Relaxavi, relax asse: have released,

I. In the civil law. Banishment without the loss of civil rights.

rerener, /. fr. To come back; to return.

In Scots law. The grantor of a wadset or mortgage of his land, who has a right, on repayment to be replaced in his right

In old English law. An admission of a third person to plead his right in a cause between two others, as the reversioner in an action against the tenant

A cutting off; an abrogation or cancellation; an avoidance; as applied to contracts, strictly an act in which the parties concur, a cancellation by agreement, but commonly usgd to

I In the civil law. An annulling, avoiding, or making void; rescission.,

In the civil law. An action to rescind or avoid a title by prescription; an action to rescind a contract of sale, on the ground of injustice in the price, or what is termed lesion.

The restoring of a thing unlawfully taken; the putting of one in possession of lands of which he has been unlawfully disseised; the restoring to one, a judgment against whom has be

Partaking of the nature of a reversion. Beversionary interest: an interest in the reversion of lauds or other property.

Personal estate or property, — in wills, equivalent to property, or wordly substance, and if used simp Uoiter, will carry the whole personal estate, but the construction may be con

I. In old English law. The shedding of blood; the mulct, or penalty therefor, v. Bloodwit.

Z. I, such a one.

I. I. Going forth and issuing out of.

7, In old English law. A going forth; egress, v. Accesst Ls; Ingressus. Ei incumbit probatio qui dicit, iion qui negat, /. The proof lies upon him who afl Brms, not upon him who de

eign, eisne, eygne, aisne, l.fr. The eldest, or first-born.

I. fr. In old English law. Eldership; an eldest sister's privilege of first choice on a partition of lands held in coparcenary.

I. fr. A bench; the table or Banque route: a broken bench or English, hankerout. v. Bank; Bankrupt

, An entering on a roll, or

esnecia, I. I. In old English law. Eldership; the right or privilege of the first born. v. Eignesse; Aisnecia.

enetius, enitius, eneyiis, assnecius, I. I. In old English law. The eldest or first born; the part or share of the eldest sister.

eyre, eier, eyer, I. fr. hi old English law. A journey by the justices, called justices in eyre, or justices itinerant, to administer justice; the court of the justices in eyre.

gr.-l. In old law, a justice of the peace. Eisdeni modis dissolvitur obligatio quae nascitur ex contractu, vel quasi, quibus contrahitur, I. An obligation which arises from contrac

eysne, aisne, I. fr. The eldest

einetia, I. I. In old English law. The part or share of the eldest. V. Einecia; Einetius.

To cast, or throw out; to oust, or dispossess.

A turning out of possession. Ejectione custodia), Ejectione flrnias, etc. v. Cnstodice, etc.

An action which lies to recover the possession of lands, with damages and costs for the wrongful detention. It is in form the old personal action of ejection of farm, which lay to

1. 1. In civil and old English law. That which is thrown up by the sea; that which is thrown out of a vessel into the sea, to avoid

I. In feudal law. To abjure, renounce or disclaim by oath.

I. Of the same kind or nature. Ejusdem negotii: of the same transaction.

qui potest Telle, I. He who can will [exercise volition] has a right to refuse to will [to withhold consent]. Ejus nulla culpa est, cut parere necesse sit: no guilt attaches to hii

A person appointed by a testator in his will to carry it into effect

1. 1. In old English law. To enlarge; to widen. Elargatio,' I. I. In old English law. An enlargement. Elargatio mansi Tel curise: the enlargement of a manse, or manor, or court, by

I. In old English law. Election; choice. Electio est creditoris, debitoris: the creditor or debtor has the election. Electio est interna, libera et spontanea separatio unius rei ab

Choice; selection; the selection of one or several men among more to perform certain duties in a municipality, corporation or society. \

Relating to or composed of electors. Electoral college: the assembly of electors who make the final formal choice of president-and vice-president of the United States.

pi. electi, I. Chosen. Electi triati et jnrati: chosen, tried and sworn.

I. In old English law. Alms. Eleemosynaria: the place in a religious house where alms were deposited, and thenoe distributed to the poor. Eleemosynarius, eleinosinarius: an almoner

Relating to the distribution of alms; charitable. Eleemosynary corporation: a lay corporation, constituted for the perpetual distribution of alms.

I. In the civil law. Accurately; with discrimination.

I. He has chosen; an old writ of execution on a judgment for debt or damages, or upon recognizance, commanding the sheriff to deliver to the plaintiff all the defendant's goods and

eslisors. Electors or to execute a venire, where fied; persons appointed to and coroner.

eloin, eloine, esloin, To remove, or send a moved or carried away to

The getting of a ing it to a distance, so that

The voluntary live with another man,

In another place.

I, I. In old English brevia: to award writs.

A setting free father. In American law. The

A detention of a imposed by the public vent their leaving its ports

The fraudulent efit of property or money

The annual product of an annual sowing

One who practices

The offense of by promises, persuasions,

emendae, I. I. That for a loss or a trespass

1. 1. In Saxon law. crime or trespass committed Emendare se: to redeem gild.

I. In old English power of amending and and measures. Emendatio and beer, or the power of them. In Saxon law. A pecuniary

I. In old English V. Remoto, eta choosers; persons appointed by the court both the sheriff and coroner are disqua Uexecute any writ, in default of the sheriff A will or testament.

I. fr. To emparl or imparl, v. Imparlance.

emphyteosis, emphi^eosis, gr.-l. In the civil law. An improving lease; a contract by which houses or lands were given to be possessed for ever, for a long time, on condition that t

gr.-l. In the civil law. The lessee or tenant under a contract of emphyteusis.

enpleder, I fr. To implead.

empres, I. fr. After: afterwards.

I fr. Imprisonment Emprisonement pur emprisonement: imprisonment for imprisonment.

enprompter, I. fr. To borrow. Emprompt: borrowed; borrowing.

emtio, I. A purchase. Emptio et Tenditio: purchase and sale.

Lat. A purchaser. Emptor emit quam minimo potest, venditor vendit quam maximo potest: the buyer purchases for the lowest price he can, the seller sells for the highest price he can

I. V. Emptio. En, I. fr. In; into. En autre droit: in another's right. En avant: in future; for the time to come. Engros: in gross; by wholesale. En ventre sa mere: in its mother's

In English which tenants in tail, husbands persons seised of an estate were empowered to make years.

To put into the form of

enceynt, ensient, I. fr.

I. fr. Inchase cattle to and from a common.

enchesson, enchason, son; occasion,

To gain unlawfully other; to take more than is

An unlawful another.