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The term “early intervention” means— (A) providing appropriate services for the child who is deaf or hard-of-hearing, including nonmedical services; and (B) ensuring that the famil

The term “early intervention activities” means advocacy, capacity building, and systemic change activities provided to individuals described in paragraph (8)(B) and their families

The term "early intervention services" means developmental services that— (A) are provided under public supervision; (B) are provided at no cost except where Federal or S

The term “early learning program” means— (A) a program of services or activities that helps parents, caregivers, and child care providers incorporate early learning into the daily

the term “early loan” means a loan enrolled at a time when the aggregate covered amount of loans previously enrolled under the Program by a particular participating financial insti

The term “early plant pest detection and surveillance” means the full range of activities undertaken to find newly introduced plant pests, whether the plant pests are new to the Un

The term “early retirees” means individuals who are age 55 and older but are not eligible for coverage under title XVIII of the Social Security Act [ 42 U.S.C. 1395 et seq.], and w

The term “early retirement age” means age 62 in the case of an old-age, wife's, or husband's insurance benefit, and age 60 in the case of a widow's or widower's insurance benefit.

For purposes of this paragraph, the terms “early retirement benefit” and “retirement-type subsidy” have the meaning given such terms in subsection (d)(6)(B)(i). / For purposes of t

The term "early-stage project support" includes— (A) feasibility studies; (B) resource evaluations; (C) project appraisal and costing; (D) pilot projects; (E) commercial

Early utility relocation project.—The term "early utility relocation project" means utility relocation activities identified by the State for performance before completio

it has long been a settled rule of construction in the courts of England and America that estates, legal or equitable, given by will, should always be regarded as vesting immediate

A mark put upon a thing for the purpose of distinction. Money in a bag tied and labelled is said to have an earmark. 3 Maule & S. 575.

A mark put upon a thing for the purpose of distinction. Money in a bag tied and labelled is said to have an earmark. 3 Maule & S. 575. Also used in equity in respect of property or

the gross amount of earnings, prior to the taking of payroll or other deductions.

For purposes of this title, the term “earned income advance amount” means, with respect to any payroll period, the amount determined— (A) on the basis of the employee's wages from

It may be 'earned surplus,' as where it was derived wholly from undistributed profits.

In this section, the term “earned value management national standard” means the most recent version of the EIA-748 Earned Value Management System Standard published by the National

The payment of a part of the price of goods sold, or the delivery of part of such goods, for the purpose of binding the contract.

The earning power of an individual is the power to create property; but it is not translated into property within the meaning of the Bankruptcy Act until it has brought earnings in

compensation paid or payable for personal services, whether denominated as wages, salary, commission, bonus, or otherwise, and includes periodic payments pursuant to a pension or r

is the evidence of those who relate, not what they know themselves, but what they have heard from others. As a general rule hearsay evidence of a fact is not admissible. If any fac

Clay, gravel, loam and the like, in distinction from the firm rock. The term also Includes hard pan, which is a bar'! turn of earth. Dickinson v. City of Poughkecpsie, 75 N. Y. 70.

The term “Earth Prediction Innovation Center” means the community global weather research modeling system described in paragraph (5)(E) of section 8512(b) of this title .

One who attests to things he has heard himself. Earls were anciently called eomites, because they were wont comitari regent, to wait upon the king for counsel and advice. They were

A right in the owner of one parcel of land, by reason of such ownership, to use the land of another for a special purpose not inconsistent with a general property in the owner. 2 W

An incorporeal right which is attached to and belongs with some greater or superior right. See 136 Am. St. Rep. 685, note.

A mere personal interest in land, not appurtenant to any other land. See 136 Am. St. Rep. 683, note.

State, 11 Ark. 491; Atchison St. R. Co. v. Missouri Pac. R. Co., 31 Kan. 661, 3 Pac. 284; Orr v. Quimby, 54 N. H. 6l3. 7. In the law of contracts, an obligation; a deed, whereby th

In the customs laws of the United States, the term "countries east of the Cape of Good Hope" means countries with which, formerly, the United States ordinarily carried on commercia

In this paragraph, the term “East Asia and the Pacific” means the region of countries that the Secretary of State designates as within the responsibility of the Bureau for East Asi

A feast of the Christian church held in memory of our Saviour's resurrection. The Greeks and Latins call it "pascha," (passover,) to which Jewish feast our Easter answers. This fea

A coin struck by Richard II., which is supposed to have given rise to the name of "sterling," as applied to English money. Wharton.

When this word is used alone it will be construed to mean due east; but this is a rule of necessity, growing out of the indefiniteness of the term and has no application where othe

the term “eastern tropical Pacific Ocean” means the area of the Pacific Ocean bounded by 40 degrees north latitude, 40 degrees south latitude, 160 degrees west longitude, and the w

or EASTER dues. In English law. Small sums of money paid to the parochial clergy by the parishioners at Easter as a compensation for personal tithes or the tithe for personal labor

In English law. Small sums of money paid to the parochial clergy by the parishioners at Easter as a compensation for personal tithes, or the tithe for personal labar; recoverable u

Dues paid to the clergy at Easter.

lii English practice one of the four terms of the superior courts in England, formerly called the movable term, but now fixed, beginning on the 15th of April, and ending on the 8th

For purposes of this chapter, the term “East European country” includes Albania, Bulgaria, the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Roman

The name of a royal manor in the county of Kent, England. Mentioned in royal grants or patents, as descriptive of the tenure of free socage. "To be holden of us, our heirs and succ

The East India Company was originally established for prosecuting the trade between England and India, which they acquired a right to carry on exclusively. Since the middle of the

An easterly coast or country.

Approval; ratification, q. V. From ratum-habere, to have or to hold firm or established. Eatihabitio mandato sequiparatur. A ratification is equal to a command. Abridged from omnis

Words used on an acquittal, or when a prisoner is to be discharged, "that he may go without day;" that is, that he be dismissed. Dane, Abr. Index.

In this section, the term "eating disorder" has the meaning given the term "feeding and eating disorders" in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Dis

Any place where food or refreshments of any kind, not including spirits, wines, ale, beer or other malt liquors, are provided for casual visitors, and sold for consumption therein.

Water.

The edge of a roof, built so as to project over the wails of a house, in order that the rain may drop therefrom to the ground instead of running down the wall. Center St Church v.

Rain-water dripping from the eaves of a house.

One guilty of lying in wait to overhear conversation. See 75 Am. Dec. 773, note.

In criminal law. Such persons as wait under walls or windows or the eaves of a house, to listen to discourses and thereupon to frame mischievous tales. 4 Bl. Comm. 167.

In Criminal Law. Such persons as wait under walls or windows or the eaves of a house, to listen to discourses and thereupon to frame mischievoustales. The common-law punishment for

The offense of lying in wait to overhear conversation.

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.

The falling of the tide.

In old English law. Ebb (of the tide.) Ehha et fluctus, ebb and flow of tide; ebb and flood. Bracton, fols. 265, 338.

An expression used formerly in this country to denote the limits of admiralty jurisdiction. As to jurisdiction as founded on ebb and flow of tide, see Admiralty.

In ecclesiastical law. An officer In cathedral churches who supervised the regular performance of divine service, and prescribed the particular duties of each person in the choir.

Same as Aberemurder.

See Abebemurder.

See Aberemurder. ECCHYM0S1S. In Medical Jurisprudence. Localized discoloration in and under the skin. An extravasation of blood by rupture of capillary vessels, and hence it follow

See ABEREMURDER. Beee modo mirum, quod foomina fert breve regis, non nominando virum, conjunctum robore legis. Co. Litt. 1325. Behold, indeed, a wonder! thata woman hag the king’s

Ascout, huntsman, or chaser.

Amends; something given in reparation for a trespass; or, in old Saxon times, in compensation for an injury or crime. Spelman.

A Christian festival, otherwise called the “Manifestation of Christ to EEE the Gentiles,” observed on the 6th of Jannary, in honor of the appearance of the star to the three magi,

In criminal law and medical jurisprudence. Drunkenness; alcoholic intoxication. Com. v. Whitney, 11 Cush. (Mass.) 479.

The term “EBT card” means an electronic benefit transfer card issued under section 2016(h) of this title .

From sight of the writing; {rom having seen a person wrile. A term employed to describe one of the modes of proof of handwriting. Best, Pres, 218.

Voluntarily; from free-will or choice.

Co. Litt. 132 b. Behold indeed, a wonder that a woman has the king's writ without naming her husband, who by law is united to her.

In criminal law ahd medical jurisprudence. Personal or individual peculiarities of mind and disposition which markedly distinguish the subject from the ordinary, normal or average

Something belongom ing to or set apart for the church, as distinguished from “civil” or “secular,” with regard to the world. Wharton.

In medical jurisprudence. Blackness. It is an extravasation of blood by rupture of capillary vessels, and hence it follows contusion; but it may exist, as in cases of scurvy and ot

Ecclesiastical.

A church.

The church ought not to pay tithes to the church.

Cro. Eliz. 479. A church ought not to pay tithes to a church.

The church is the mansion-house of the omnipotent God.

2 Inst. 164. The church is the mansion-house of the Omnipotent God.

The church is under age and in the custody of the king, who is bound to sustain and defend her rights and inheritances.

11 Chke, 49. The church ls under age, and in the custody of the king, who is bound to uphold and defend its rights and inheritances.

The church occupies the position of a minor; she can make her own condition better, but never worse.

The church is more to be favored than the individual.

The church does not die. 2 Inst. 3.

The ruler of a church.

A clergyman; one destined to the divine ministry; as, a bishop, a priest, a deacon. Domat, Civ. Law, liv. prel. tit. 2, § 2, note 14.

Pertaining to the church as distinguished from secular or civil.

In England, the clergy, under the sovereign, as temporal head of the Church, set apart from the rest of the people or laity, in order to superintend the public worship of God and t

A court instituted by Elizabeth with great powers in religious matters.

Commissioners established by statute, in England, principally for the purpose of preparing schemes for the improvement of the ecclesiastical system, especially as to the equalizati

Such corporations as are composed of persons who take a lively interest in the advancement of religion, and who are asso- Corporations whose members are spiritual persons are disti

In New England. A church court or tribunal, having functions partly judicial and partly advisory, appointed to determine questions relating to church discipline, orthodoxy, standin

In English ecclesiastical law. The generic name for certain courts in England, having cognizance mainly of spiritual matters. Also called "Courts Christian." The jurisdiction which

This is a division into provinces, dioceses, archdeaconries, rural deaneries, and parishes.

Jurisdiction over ecclesiastical cases and controversies; such as appertains to the ecclesiastical courts. Short v. Stotts, 58 Ind. 35.

The law of the church. The existence in England of a separate order of ecclesiastical courts, and a separate system of law by them administered, may be traced back to the time of W

A secretary or clerk employed in the ecclesiastical courts and councils.

This term, as used in the canon law, includes church buildings, church property, cemeteries, and property given to the church for the support of the poor or for any other pious use

In the absence of fraud, collusion, or arbitrariness, the decisions of the proper church tribunals on matters purely ecclesiastical, although affecting civil rights, are accepted i