A Law Dictionary and Glossary

I. I. In old English law. To discharge; to relieve or release from a burden or liability.

In old practice, profits; the full profits of land including all

The contract woman, to marry each

esquier. In English above gentleman, and iffs, Serjeants and others. In old law. A knight's and bore his shield, or

Essartum, esartuin, land turned into tillage, underwood.

I. fr. In old derwood; properly to vals.

I. To be; being; to of being. Essendl (or essendo, etc. Essentialia negotii, I. The

In English law. court on an appointed essoin.

essoign, Essoiue, soniaiu, exonium, 1. 1. in court at the 'return such excuse to the court. which the court sat to (de service del roy): king's service. Essoin excuse that the part

I. I. In old an essoin was presented.

exonium, exonia, cuse for not appearing general. of mutual promise between a man and a other. law. A name or title of dignity next below knight; a title of office given to sherbarr

I. Is; it is; ther^ is. Est allquid qnod non qnicqnid yero non licet certe non oportet: some tilings] wliioii ougitt not to be done, even but whatever is not lawful certainly ought

I. fr. In old English law. To establish to fix or settle, as dower. Establie est: it is fixed or settled.

In old English law. An ordinance tablished law.

Z. /n In eld English law. An nance; an act or statute; the settlement of her husband.

An interest in lands, or in any other subject property in which one has an interest, — technically condition in life, status. Estate at sufferance: tenant has where he is allowed t

In English law. The lords spiritual, the lords temporal, and the commons.

I fr. To extend, or lay out Estendn: extended.

estant, esteinte, I. fr. Extent; the laying out of lands; value; estimation.

sterling. The silver penny of England; good money; lawful money; standard silver money.

I. Be it; supposa Esto perpetnlt: be it eternal.

To stop, bar, or impede; to prevent; to precluda

An impediment, or bar, by which a man is precluded in law from alleging or denying a fact, in consequence of his own previous act, allegation or denial, to the contrary; a pleading

L. Fr., Estoveria, estoverium, Lat. In old English law. An allowance made to a person out of an estate for his support; an allowance of wood to a tenant in dower for repairs, fuel

An allowance made to a person out of an estate for his support; an allowance to a woman upon divorce a mensa et thoro for her support out of her husband's estate, — more commonly c

estoier, estere, ester, ?./r. To stand; to stand good. Estoyse le primer jngement: the first judgment shall stand.

Any thing out (rf its place, especially a wandering domestic animal.

In English law. To take out a forfeited recognizance from the records of a court, and return it to the court of exchequer to be prosecuted.

In English law. A true copy or duplicate of an original writing; an extract from the rolls or records of a court, especially records of amercements; more particularly, in modern la

estrepementnm, I. I. In old English laiv. A destructive kind of waste committed by a tenant for life or years in lands, woods or houses; estrepement. v. Estrepement.

I. fr. To strip or lay bare, as trees of their branches, or land of wood, houses, etc.; to commit waste, v. Estrepement.

estrepment, l. fr. and eng. Spoil made by a tenant for life, on lands or woods, to the prejudice of the reversioner, as by usage contrary to good husbandry, or by cutting down tree

ewangelies, I. Eando et redeundo, I. In rcdeundo: in going, press the privilege from nesses, etc.

enicia pars, I. I. In old English the part of the eldest sister on V. Eignesse.

To summon to court.; to join to. ' with.; an adjournment, or the adjourn- I l, Adjourner, fr. To adjourn; assign a day; to summon to appear they shall adjourn the assises. Ad-

2. In old English from a cause. Ereutus eventus quia ex causa from a cause, and they cause.

The recovery of of lands by process of law In the civil laip. The a thing, in pursuance of abandonment; the depriving power to retain the thing sold, or of a part of it,

That which tends which the truth of a fact strated; any matter of is to produce in the mind of the existence of some a written instrument or porting on its face the deeds and other

Having the

I In the civil a thing from one by right to claim a thing by suit given or sold it to another, Ew, sax. Marriaga Ewbrice:

I fr. To sow; to stolen or robbed.

I. fr. Water; the water judgment; — ad patrjam: and so to the counso; — pendet: and so it hangs; — peudet plea hangs; — ulterins: and so on; and so Et unde diclt: and whereupon he

I. fr. To enroll; to put or roule de coroner: to enroll on the

The taking of a fee by an officer or one in pretended authority, where none is allowed by law.

I. In old English law. A collector of taxes and other public moneya Exactor regis: a collector of the taxes and other moneys due to the king's treasury. In the civil law. A collect

1. 1. In old English law. To raise or elevate. Exaltare stagnum: to raise a pool; to raise the water in a pond by damming, so as to overflow the land of another.

II. A trial. Examen compnti: the balance of an account

v. De bene esse.

In English law. A copy of a record or paper, sworn to have been examined with the origihal.

An officer of the court before whom witnesses are examined, and their testimony reduced to writing.

2. In old English law. Disherison; an injury done to one who has the inheritance, particularly to a remainder-man or reversioner. V. Ad exhceredationem. In the civil law. Disinheri

In Scots law. Exchange.

escainbinm, cambinm, 1. 1. In old English law. Exchange, exchange of lands; a recompense or equivalent. in value.

or fraudis: on the ground of fraud. Ex comitate: outof comity, or courtesy. Ex comparatione scriptoriim: by a comparison of writings, or handwritings. Ex concessione: from or by th

I. Saving the royal dignity.

I Excepting, — one of the apt words for denoting an exception in a deed. Exceptis pras-exceptis: excepting what was before excepted; except as above excepted.

/. I In old English law. A party who excepted, or put in a plea.

Damages, given by verdict, which are unreasonably great in amount, and not warranted by law.

1. 1. In old English law. Excess; transgression; violation of engagements.

An original conveyance at common law for an exchange of interest in land of the same degree, — as a fee-simple for a feesimple; a lease for so many years for a lease for so many ye

In England, the revenue department; the court of exchequer. Exchequer bills: bills of credit issued by authority of parliament Exchequer chamber: a court of appeals in England, est

1. 1. In old English law. To plead. Excipi: to be pleaded.

An inland imposition upon commodities, paid sometimes upon the consumption of the commodity, or frequently upon the retail sale.

I. I. In old English law. A structure for carrying off water, especially such as is dammed or pent up, as in a mill pond or fish pond; a sluice.

L In the civil law. To excuse; to relieve or release from a duty or obligation, for sufficient cause shown. Excasat ant extenuat delictam in capitalibns, qnod non operatur idem in

I I. In old English law. An excuser; one who ofi Eered the excuse of another in court

I. In old English law. Rescue or rescous. In the civil law. A diligent prosecution of a remedy against a debtor; the exhausting of a remedy against a principal debtor.

I. In the civil law. To search thoroughly; to prosecute a remedy against one to the uttermost, especially against a principal debtor.

I. fr. Excommunication.

In English law. An ecclesiastical interdict by which one is cut off from communion with his church.

Homicide which the law excuses from the guilt

I. In the civil law. An excuse, an exemption or release from duty or obligation, for sufficient cause shown; a ground, cause or reason for exemption from duty.

A ground of exemption or relief from some duty or liability; a matter alleged and presented to a court as a ground of such exemption.

I In old English law. An exchanger, a broker.

To complete; to carry out; to make effectual; to perform or fulfil; to carry into effect.

Finished; effected; fully performed; now in foi'ce; now existent; past. v. Executory. Executed consideriition: a consideration ijerformed prior to the promise on which it is founde

I. The doing or following up of a thing; the doing of a thing completely or thoroughly; management or administration; the final process in an action. Executio est finis et fructus

The completion of an act or proceeding, by which it is rendered operative or effectual; the formality of signing, sealing and delivery by the party making a deed, or of signing and

I. In old English law. A person appointed or authorized to execute or perform a duty or trust, especially to manage and dispose of the property or estate of a deceased person. Exec

/. fr. An executor of his own wrong; an executor by his own wrongful act

Unfinished; yet to be performed; future. Executory consideration: a consideration which is to be performed after the making of the promise on which it is founded. Executory contrac

In Scots law. The movable estate of a person dying, which goes to his nearest of kin.

I. An example; an instance. Exempla illustrant non restringunt legem: examples illustrate the law; do not restrict it Exempli gratia: for purpose of example. In the civil law. A co

To relieve from some service or duty to which others are subject

A certified transcript, under seal, of a record.

I. Let him execute or perform his office; the official recognition of a person in the character of consul or commercial agent

L In old English law. To execute.

I. In the civil law. An action which lay against the employer of a vessel for the contracts made by the master,

/. In the aivil law. The employer of a vessel; the person who sent a vessel to sea at his own risk, and received all her earnings.

I. I. In old English law. A heriot

LI In old English law. To break the peace; to commit open violenca

I. In the civil law. To disinherit; to exclude from inheriting.

In Scots law. To disinherit; to exclude from inheriting.

I. In the civil law. To have out; to show openly; to exhibit; to produce a thing, so that it may be seen and handled. Exhibere est prscsentiam corporis prjebere: to exhibit is to f

To present or show in legal form; to present to a court

A writing which, on the examination of a witness before an examiner or commissioner, is exhibited to the witness to be proved, and on the back of which the examiner or commissioner

I. I. The exhibition of the bill, — a phrase formerly used in pleading, and generally equivalent to " the commencement of the suit," the suit, where the proceedings were by bill, b

I. In the civil law. A person disinherited.

or exigi facias, I. I. In English law. A judicial writ used in the process of outlawry, commanding the sheriff to demand the defendant, from county court to county court, until he

An ofiicer of the English Court of Common Pleas, whose duty it was formerly to make out the exigents and proclamations in the process of outlawrj-.