A Law Dictionary and Glossary

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.

A burden or

endente, I fr. Indented,

/. fr. To sleep; to be mant or suspended.

v. Indorse.

v. Indorsement.

The assignment apart of a portion of lands nent provision for charitable

In the law of nations. other, or against whom war hostile nation.

I. fr. An infant, or under age.

To give in fee; to invest

To make free; to denizen.

Making free damage: in his damage; damage feasant fee: in his demesne as of fee. En snstesmoignance: in testimony or witness. law. The statute 32 Hen. VIIT., c. 88, by seised in ri

enfranchir, I. fr. To or liberty,

A binding by gage or

I. fr. To pledge.

I fr. To eject; to cast or

Farm out; to to the farming of who held or hired lessee of things other Sureties or securities; confesses his guilt who; an event or cause of prevention; fate, foolish; absurd, ina

englecherie, eiiglescherie, old English law. The fact of being fact in case of a person slain, to law after the Conquest that the avoid the heavy fine upon the

1. fr. England. Bngleys:

in the plaintiff's declaration, in an ac one of the original contracting parties who against the other who personally incurred heirs, if they were bound to the payment and has been

Small. Minutis curiis: in small The Mirror. The title of aa old treatise written generally attributed to Andrew Home, who was in the time of Edw. IL law. The mise or issue in a wri

An imposition, tax or tribute. Impossibilium nulla obligatio est: there do] impossible things, v. Ea quae, etc.; Lex levied on articles brought into a country; in duty or impositio

To make quiet; to give quiet, or or protect from molestation, as from deacquit; to release from a debt; to declare innoacquitted; pronounced innocent by a jury. lawful mode, by som

To bring together marriage those that are unequal Disparagement. In old English connection in marriage; him or her to a person of Inequality in blood, honor, digunlike ought not to

To clear land of trees and unthin woods by cutting trees, etc., at interappear in court Essendum, essendi: being; de essendo), qnietum de theolonio: v. De essential parts of a tran

To present an excuse or essoin to '

A person essoined, or for whom soniuni, I. I. In old English law. An exin court; an essoin; an excuse or reason, in ^

The profits of corresponding witli the To rob, plunder or spoil; country; to carry or send course of trade. Expositlo quae ex Tisceribns in le^e: that kind of from the bowels of a

A writ which lay of process, for false returning A counterfeiter; a maker of counterfeiters. imitation, perversion or superroneous; fraudulent Falsns one thing, false in every thin