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A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z <% End If objRecordset.MoveNext WEND objRecordset.Close Set objRecordset = Nothing %> E CONVERSO . On the other side or hand; on the contrary. E PLURIBUS UNUM . One from more. The motto of the arms of the United States. EAGLE , money. A gold coin of the United States, of the value of ten dollars. It weighs two hundred and fifty-eight EAR-WITNESS . One who attests to things he has heard himself. EARL , Eng. law. A title of nobility next below a marquis and above a viscount. 2. Earls were anciently called comi EARLDOM . The seigniory of an earl; the title and dignity of an earl. EARNEST , contracts. The payment of a part of the price of goods sold, or the delivery of part of such goods, for the EASEMENTS , estates. An easement is defined to be a liberty privilege or advantage, which one man may have in the lands EASTER TERM , Eng. law. One of the four terms of the courts. It is now a fixed term beginning on the 15th of April and end EAT INDE SINE DIE . Words used on an acquittal, or when a prisoner is to be discharged, that he may go without day, that is, tha EAVES-DROPPERS , crim. law. Persons as wait under walls or windows or the eaves of a house, to listen to discourses, and ther ECCHYMOSIS , med. jur. Blackness. It is an extravasation of blood by rupture of capillary vessels, and hence it follows c ECCLESIA . In classical Greek this word signifies any assembly, and in this sense it is used in Acts xix. 39. But ordin ECCLESIASTIC . A clergyman; one destined to the divine ministry, as, a bishop, a priest, a deacon. Dom. Lois Civ. liv. prel ECCLESIASTICAL . Belonging to, or set apart for the church; as, distinguished from civil or secular. Vide Church. ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS . English law. Courts held by the king's authority as supreme governor of the church, for matters which chiefl ECCLESIASTICAL LAW . By this phrase it is intended to include all those rules which govern ecclesiastical tribunals. Vide Law Can ECCLESIASTICS , canon law. Those persons who compose the hierarchial state of the church. They are regular and secular. Aso ECLAMPSIA PARTURIENTIUM , med. jur. The name of a disease accompanied by apoplectic convulsions, and which produces aberration of mind EDICT . A law ordained by the sovereign, by which he forbids or commands something it extends either to the whole co EDICT PERPETUAL . The title of a compilation of all the edicts. This collection was made by Salvius Julianus, a jurist who was EDICTS OF JUSTINIAN . These are thirteen constitutions or laws of that prince, found in most editions of the corpus juris civilis, EFFECT . The operation of a law, of an agreement, or an act, is called its effect. 2. By the laws of the United State EFFECTS . This word used simpliciter is equivalent to property or, worldly substance, and may carry the whole personal EFFIGY , crim. law. The figure or representation of a person. 2. To make the effigy of a person with an intent to mak EFFRACTION . A breach, made by the use of force. EFFRACTOR . One who breaks through; one who commits a burglary. EGO . I, myself. This term is used in forming genealogical tables, to represent the person who is the object of in EIGNE , persons. This is a corruption of the French word aine, eldest or first born. 2. It is frequently used in our EIRE, or EYRE , English law. A journey. Justices in eyre, were itinerant judges, who were sent once in seven years with a ge EJECTMENT , remedies. The name of an action which lies for the recovery of the possession of real property, and of damag EJUSDEM GENERIS . Of the same kind. 2. In the construction of laws, wills and other instruments, when certain things are enume ELDEST . He or she who has the greatest age. 2. The laws of primogeniture are not in force in the United States; the ELECTION . This term, in its most usual acceptation, signifies the choice which several persons collectively make of a ELECTION OF A DEVISE OR LEGACY . It is an admitted principle, that a person shall not be permitted to claim under any instrument, whether it ELECTION OF ACTIONS , practice. It is frequently at the choice of the plaintiff what kind of an action to bring; a skilful practit ELECTOR , government. One who has the right to make choice of public officers one, who has a right to vote. 2. The qua ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT . Persons elected by the people, whose sole duty is to elect a president and vice-president of the U. S. 2. Th ELEEMOSYNARY . Charitable alms-giving. 2. Eleemosynary corporations are colleges, schools, and hospitals. 1 Wood. Lect. 474 ELEGATION , civil law. Among the Romans relegation was a banishment to a certain place, and consequently was an interdic ELEGIT , Eng. practice, remedies. A writ of execution directed to the sheriff, commanding him to make delivery of a m ELIGIBILITY . Capacity to be elected. 2. Citizens are in general eligible to all offices; the exceptions arise from the wa ELISORS , practice. Two persons appointed by the court to return a jury, when the sheriff and the coroner have been ch ELL . A measure of length. In old English the word signifies arm, which sense it still retains in the word elbow. ELOIGNE , practice. This word signifies, literally, to remove to a distance; to remove afar off. It is used as a retur ELONGATA , practice. There turn made by the sheriff to a writ of replevin, when the goods have been removed to places u ELOPEMENT . This term is used to denote the departure of a married woman from her hushand, and dwelling with an adultere ELOQUENCE OR ORATORY . The act or art of speaking well upon any subject with a view to persuade. It comprehends a good elocution, c ELSEWHERE . In another place. 2. Where one devises all his land in A, B and C, three distinct towns, and elsewhere, and EMANCIPATION . An act by which a person, who was once in the power of another, is rendered free. B y the laws of Louisiana, EMBARGO , maritime law. A proclamation, or order of state, usually issued in time of war, or threatened hostilities, p EMBEZZLEMENT , crim. law. The fraudulently removing and secreting of personal property, with which the party has been entru EMBLEMENTS , rights. By this term is understood the crops growing upon the land. By crops is here meant the products of t EMBRACEOR , criminal law. He who, when a matter is on trial between party and party, comes to the bar with one of the pa EMBRACERY , crim. law. An attempt to corrupt or influence a jury, or any way incline them to be more favorable to the on EMENDALS , Eng. law. This ancient word is said to be used in the accounts of the inner temple, where so much in emendal EMIGRANT . One who quits his country for any lawful reason, with a design to settle elsewhere, and who takes his family EMIGRATION . The act of removing from one place to another. It is sometimes used in the same sense as expatriation, (q. v EMINENCE ; A title of honor given to cardinals. EMINENT DOMAIN . The right which people or government retain over the estates of individuals, to resume the same for public u EMISSARY . One who is sent from one power or government into another nation for the purpose of spreading false rumors a EMISSION , med. jur. The act by which any matter whatever is thrown from the body; thus it is usual to say, emission of EMMENAGOGUES , med. jur. The name of a class of medicines which are believed to have the power. of favoring the discharge o EMOLUMENT . The lawful gain or profit which arises from an office. EMPALEMENT . A punishment in which a sharp polo was forced up the fundament. Encyc. Lond. h. t. EMPEROR , an officer. This word is synonymous with the Latin imperator; they are both derived from the. verb imperare. EMPHYTEOSIS , civil law. The name of a contract by which the owner of an uncultivated piece of land granted it to another EMPIRE . This word signifies, first, authority or command; it is the power to command or govern those actions of men EMPLOYED . One who is in the service of another. Such a person is entitled to rights and liable to. perform certain dut EMPLOYEE . One who is authorized to act for another; a mandatory. EMPLOYER . One who has engaged or hired the services of another. He is entitled to rights and bound to perform duties. EMPLOYMENT . An employment is an office; as, the secretary of the treasury has a laborious and responsible employment; an EMPTION . The act of buying. EMPTOR . A buyer; a purchaser. EN DEMEURE . In default. This term is used in Louisiana. 3 N. S. 574. See Moral in. ENABLING POWERS . A term used in equity. When the donor of a power, who is the owner of the estate, confers upon persons not s ENCEINTE , med. jur. A French word, which signifies pregnant. 2. When a woman is pregnant, and is convicted of a capita ENCLOSURE . An artificial fence put around one's estate. Vide Close. ENCROACHMENT . An unlawful gaining upon the right or possession of another; as, when a man sets his fence beyond his line; ENCUMBRANCE . A burden or charge upon an estate or property, so that it cannot be disposed of without being subject to it. ENDEAVOR , crim. law. An attempt. (q. v.) Vide Revolt. ENDORSEMENT . Vide Indorsement. ENDOWMENT . The bestowing or assuring of a dower to a woman. It is sometimes used: metaphorically, for the setting a pro ENEMY , international law. By this term is understood the whole body of a nation at war with another. It also signif ENGAGEMENT . This word is frequently used in the French law to signify not only a contract, but the obligations arising f ENGLESHIRE . A law was made by Canutus, for the preservation of his Danes, that when a man was killed, the hundred or tow ENGROSSER . One who purchases large quantities of any commodities in order to have the command of the market, and to sel ENJOYMENT . The right which a man possesses of receiving all the product of a thing for his necessity, his use, or his p ENLARGING . Extending or making more comprehensive; as an enlarging statute, which is one extending the common law. ENLISTMENT . Thc act of making a contract to serve the government in a subordinate capacity, either in the army or navy. ENORMIA . Wrongful acts. See Alia Enormia. ENROLLMENT , Eng. law. The registering, or entering in the rolls of chancery, king's bench, common pleas, or exchequer, o ENTIA PARS . The part of the eldest. Co. Litt. 166; Bac. Ab. Coparceners, C. 2. When partition is voluntarily made among ENTIRE . That which is not divided; that which is whole. 2. When a contract is entire, it must in general be fully pe ENTIRETY, or, ENTIERTIE . This word denotes the whole, in contradistinction to moiety, which denotes the half part. A hushand and wife ENTREPOT . A warehouse; a magazine where goods are deposited, and which are again to be removed. ENTRY , commercial law. The act of setting down the particulars of a sale, or other transaction, in a merchant's or ENTRY , estates, rights. The taking possession of lands by the legal owner. 2. A person having a right of possession ENTRY . criminal law. The unlawful breaking into a house, in order to commit a crime. In cases of burglary, the leas ENTRY AD COMMUNE LEGEM , Eng. law. The name of a writ which lies in favor of the reversioner, when the tenant for term of life, tenan ENTRY OF GOODS , commercial law. An entry of goods at the custom-house is the submitting to the officers appointed by law, wh ENTRY, WRIT OF . The name of a writ issued for the purpose of obtaining possession of land from one who has entered unlawfull ENVOY , international law. In diplomatic language, an envoy is a minister of the second rank, on whom his sovereign EPILEPSY , med. jur. A discase of the brain, which occurs in paroxysms, with uncertain intervals between them. 2. These EPISCOPACY , eccl. law. A form of government by diocesan bishops; the office or condition of a bishop. EPISTLES , civil law. The name given to a species of rescript. Epistles were the answers given by the prince, when magi EQUALITY . Possessing the same rights, and being liable to the same duties. See 1 Toull. No. l70, 193, Int. 2. Persons EQUINOX . The name given to two periods of the year when the days and nights are equal; that is, when the space of tim EQUITABLE . That which is in conformity to the natural law. Wolff, Inst. ?83. EQUITABLE ESTATE . An equitable estate is a right or interest in land, which, not having the properties of a legal estate, but EQUITABLE MORTGAGE , Eng. law. The deposit of title-deeds, by the owner of an estate, with a person from whom he has borrowed mon EQUITY . In the early history of the law, the sense affixed to this word was exceedingly vague and uncertain. This wa Equity Jurisdiction of the Circuit Courts. 100. Circuit courts are vested with equity jurisdiction in certain cases. The Act of September, 1789, 11, giv EQUITY OF REDEMPTION . A right which the mortgagee of an estate has of redeeming it, after it has been forfeited at law by the non- EQUITY, COURT OF . A court of equity is one which administers justice, where there are no legal rights, or legal rights, but co EQUIVALENT . Of the same value. Sometimes a condition must be literally accomplished in forma specifica; but some may be EQUIVOCAL . What has a double sense. 2. In the construction of contracts, it is a general rule that when an expression m EQUULEUS . The name of a kind of rack for extorting confessions. Encyc. Lond. ERASURE , contracts, evidence. The obliteration of a writing; it will render it void or not under the same circumstanc EREGIMUS . We have erected. In England, whenever the. right of creating or granting a new office is vested in the king, EROTIC MANIA , med. jur. A name given to a morbid activity of the sexual propensity. It is a disease or morbid affection of ERROR . A mistake in judgment or deviation from the truth, in matters of fact and from the law in matters of judgmen ERROR, WRIT OF . A writ of error is one issued fro a superior to an inferior court, for the purpose of bringing up the record ESCAPE . An escape is tho deliverance of a person who is lawfully imprisoned, out of prison, before such a person is ESCAPE, WARRANT . A warrant issued in England against a person who being charged in custody in the king's bench or Fleet priso ESCHEAT , title to lands. According to the English law, escheat denotes an obstruction of the course of descent, and a ESCHEATOR . The name of an officer whose duties are generally to ascertain what escheats have taken place, and to prosec ESCROW , conveyancing, contracts. A conditional delivery of a deed to a stranger, and not to the grantee himself, unt ESCUAGE , old Eng. law. Service of the shield. Tenants who hold their land by escuage, hold by knight's service. 1 Tho ESNECY . Eldership. In the English law, this word signifies the right which the eldest coparcener of lands has to cho ESPLEES . The products which the land or ground yields; as the hay of the meadows, the herbage of the pasture, corn or ESPOUSALS , contracts. A mutual promise between a man and a woman to marry each other, at some other time: it differs fr ESQUIRE . A title applied by courtesy to officers of almost every description, to members of the bar, and others. No o ESSOIN , practice. An excuse which a party bound to be in court on a particular day, offers for not being there. 1 Se ESTABLISH . This word occurs frequently in the Constitution of the United $tates, and it is there used in different mean ESTADAL , Spanish law. In Spanish America, this was a measure of land of sixteen square varas or yards. 2 White's Coll ESTATE . This word his several meanings: 1. In its most extensive sense, it is applied to signify every thing of whic ESTER EN JUGEMENT , French law. Stare in judicio. To appear before a tribunal either as plaintiff or defendant. ESTIMATION OF VALUES . As the value of most things is variable, according to circumstances, the law in many cases determines the ti ESTOPPEL , pleading. An estoppel is a preclusion, in law, which prevents a man from alleging or denying a fact, in cons ESTOVERS , estates. The right of taking necessary wood for the use or furniture of a house or farm, from off another's ESTRAYS . Cattle whose owner is unknown. 2. In the United States, generally, it is presumed by local regulations, they ESTREAT . This term is used to signify a true copy or note of some original writing or record, and specially of flues ESTREPE . This word is derived from the French, estropier, to cripple. It signifies an injury to lands, to the damage ESTREPEMENT . The name of a writ which lay at common law to prevent a party in possession from committing waste on an esta ET CETERA . A Latin phrase, which has been adopted into English; it signifies. "and the others, and so of the rest," it ET NON . And not. These words are sometimes employed in pleading to convey a pointed denial. They have the same effec EUNDO MORANDO, ET REDEUNDO . This Latin phrase signifies going, remaining, and returning. It is employed in cases where a person either a EUNOMY . Equal laws, and a well adjusted constitution of government. EUNUCH . A male whose organs of generation have been so far removed or disorganized, that he is rendered incapable of EVASION . A subtle device to set aside the truth, or escape the punishment of the law; as if a man should tempt anothe EVICTION . The loss or deprivation which the possessor of a thing suffers, either in whole or in part, of his right of EVIDENCE . That which demonstrates, makes clear, or ascertains the truth of the very fact or point in issue; 3 Bl. Com. EVIDENCE, CIRCUMSTANTIAL . The proof of facts which usually attend other facts sought to be, proved; that which is not direct evidence. EVIDENCE, CONCLUSIVE . That which, while uncontradicted, satisfies the judge and jury it is also that which cannot be contradicted. EVIDENCE, DIRECT . That which applies immediately to the fadum probandum, without any intervening process; as, if A testifies h EVIDENCE, EXTRINSIC . External evidence, or that which is not contained in the body of an agreement, contract, and the like. 2. It EVOCATION , French law. The act by which a judge is deprived of the cognizance of a suit over which he had jurisdiction, EWAGE . A toll paid for water passage. Cowell. The same as aquagium. (q. v.) EX AEQUO ET BONO . In equity and good conscience. A man is bound to pay money which ex oequo et bono he holds for the use of an EX CONTRACTU . This term is applied to such things as arise from a contract; as an action which arises ex contractu. Vide A EX DELICTO . Those actions which arise in consequence of a crime, misdemeanor, fault, or tort; actions arising ex delicto EX DOLO MALO . Out of fraud or deceit. When a cause of action arises from fraud or deceit, it cannot be supported: Ex dolo EX MERO MOTU . Mere motion of a party's own free will. To prevent injustice, the courts will, ex mero motu, make rules and EX MORA . From the delay; from the default. All persons are bound to make amends for damages which arise from their ow EX NECESSITATE LEGIS . From the necessity of law. EX NECESSITATE REI . From the necessity of the thing. Many acts may be done ex necessitate ret, which would not be justifiable wi EX OFFICIO . By virtue of his office. 2. Many powers are granted and exercised by public officers which are not expressly EX PARTE . Of the one part. Many things may be done ex parte, when the opposite party has had notice; an affidavit or d EX POST FACTO , contracts, crim. law. This is a technical expression, which signifies, that something has been done after an EX TEMPORE . From the time without premeditation. EX VI TERMINI . By force of the term; as a bond ex vi termini imports a sealed instrument. EX VISITATIONE DEI . By or from the visitation of God. This phrase is frequently employed in inquisitions by the coroner, where i EXACTION , torts. A willful wrong done by an officer, or by one who, under color of his office, takes more fee or pay f EXAMINATION , crim. law. By the common law no one is bound to accuse himself. Nemo tenetur prodere seipsum. In England, by EXAMINATION , practice. The interrogation of a witness, in order to ascertain his knowledge as to the facts in dispute bet EXAMINED COPY . This phrase is applied to designate a paper which is a copy of a record, public book, or register, and which EXAMINERS , practice. Persons appointed to question students of law, in order to ascertain their qualifications before t EXAMPLE . An example is a case put to illustrate a. principle. Examples illustrate, but do not restrain or change the EXCAMBIATOR . The name of an exchanger of lands; a broker. This term is now obsolete. EXCAMBIUM . Exchange. (q. v.) EXCEPTIO REI JUDICATAE , civil law. The name of a plea by which the defendant alleges that the matter in dispute between the parties EXCEPTION , contracts. An exception is a clause in a deed,. by which the lessor excepts something out of that which he g EXCEPTION , Eng. Eq. practice. Re-interrogation. 2 Benth. Ev. 208, n. EXCEPTION , legislation, construction. Exceptions are rules which limit the extent of other more general rules, and rend EXCEPTION , practice, pleading. This term is used in the civil, nearly in the same sense that the word plea has in the c EXCHANGE , com. law. This word has several significations. 2. - 1. Exchange is a negotiation by which one person transf EXCHANGE conveyancing. An exchange is a mutual grant of equal interests in land, the one in consideration of the other. EXCHEQUER CHAMBER , Eng. law. A court erected by statute 31 Ed. III. c. 12, to determine causes upon writs of error from the com EXCHEQUER R , Eng. law. An ancient court of record set up by William the Conqueror. It is called exchequer from the cheque EXCISES . This word is used to signify an inland imposition, paid sometimes upon the consumption of the commodity, and EXCLUSIVE , computation of time. Shut out; not included. As when an act is to be done within a certain time, as ten days EXCLUSIVE , rights. Debarring one from participating in a thing. An exclusive right or privilege, is one granted to a pe EXCOMMUNICATIO CAPIENDO, WRIT OF , Eng. eccl. law. A writ issuing out of chancery, founded on a hishop's certificate that the defendant had bee EXCOMMUNICATION , eccl. law. An ecclesiastical sentence, pronounced by a spiritual judge against a Christian man, by which he EXCUSABLE HOMICIDE , crim. law. The killing of a human being, when the party killing is not altogether free from blame, but the n EXCUSE . A reason alleged for the doing or not doing a thing. This word presents two ideas differing essentially from EXEAT , eccl. law. This is a Latin term, which is used to express the written permission which a hishop gives to an EXECUTED . Something done; something completed. This word is frequently used in connexion with others to designate a qu EXECUTIO NON . These words occur in the stat. 13 Ed. I. cap. 45, in the following connexion: Et...precipiatur vice comiti q EXECUTION , contracts. The accomplishment of a thing; as the execution of a bond and warrant of attorney, which is the s EXECUTION , crim. law. The putting a convict to death, agreeably to law, in pursuance of his sentence. EXECUTION , practice. The act of carrying into effect the final judgment of a court, or other jurisdiction. The writ whi EXECUTION PAREE . By the term execution paree, which is used in Louisiana, is meant a right founded on an authentic act; that EXECUTIONER . The name given to him who puts criminals to death, according to their sentence; a hangman. 2. In the United EXECUTIVE , government. That power in the government which causes the laws to be executed and obeyed: it is usually. con EXECUTOR , trusts. The word executor, taken in its largest sense, has several accep tations. 1. Executor dativus, who i EXECUTORY . Whatever may be executed; as an executory sentence or judgment, an executory contract. EXECUTORY DEVISE , estates. An executory devise is a limitation by will of a future contingent interest in lands, contrary to t EXECUTORY PROCESS , via executoria. In Louisiana, this is a process which can be resorted to only in two. cases, namely: 1. When EXECUTORY TRUST . A trust is said to be executory where some further act is requisite to be done by the author of the trust hi EXECUTRIX , A woman who has been appointed by. will to execute such will or testament. See Executor. EXEMPLIFICATION , evidence. A perfect copy of a record, or office book lawfull kept, so far as relates to the matter in questi EXEMPTION . A privilege which dispenses with the general rule; for example, in Pennsylvania, and perhaps in all the othe EXEMPTS . Persons who are not bound by law, but excused from the performance of duties imposed upon others. 2. By the EXEQUATUR , French law. This Latin word was, in the ancient practice, placed at the bottom of a judgment emanating from EXEQUATUR , internat. law. A declaration made by the executive of a government near to which a consul has been nominated EXERCITOR . A term in the civil law, to denote the person who fits out, and equips a vessel, whether he be the absolute EXHEREDATION , civil law. The act by which a forced heir is deprived of his legitimate or legal portion which the law gives EXHIBIT , practice. Where a paper or other writing is on motion, or on other occasion, proved; or if an affidavit to w EXHIBITION , Scotch law. An action for compelling the production of writings. In Pennsylvania, a party possessing writing EXHIBlTANT . One who exhibits any thing; one who is complainant in articles of the peace. 12 Adol. & Ellis, 599 40 E. C. EXIGENDARY , Eng. law. An officerwho makes out exigents. EXIGENT , or EXIGI FACIAS, practice. A writ issued in the course of proceedings to out lawry, deriving its name and ap EXIGIBLE . That which may be exacted demandable; requirable. EXILE , civil law. The: interdiction of all places except one in which the party is foreed to make his residence. 2. EXILIUM . By this term is understood that kind of waste which either drove away the inhabitants into a species of exil EXITUS . Issue,, child, or offspring; rents or profits of land. Cowell, h. v. In pleading, it is the issue, or the en EXOINE , French law. An act or instrument in writing, which contains the reasons why a party in a civil suit, or a pe EXONERATION . The taking off a burden or duty. 2. It is a rule in the distribution of an intestate's estate that the debts EXONERATUR , practice. A short note entered on a bail piece, that the bail is exonerated or discharged in consequence of EXPATRIATION . The voluntary act of abandoning one's country and becoming the citizen or subject of another. 2. Citizens of EXPECTANCY , estates. Having a relation to or dependence upon something future. 2. Estates are of two sorts, either in po EXPECTANT . Having relation to, or depending upon something; this word is frequently used in connexion with fee, as fee EXPECTATION . That which may be expected, although contingent. In the doctrine of life annuities, that share or number of EXPENSAE LITIS . Expenses of the suit; the costs which are generally allowed to the successful party. EXPERTS . From the Latin experti,which signifies, instructed by experience. Persons who are selected by the courts or EXPILATION , civil law. The crime of abstracting the goods of a succession. 2. This is said not to be a theft, because th EXPIRATION . Cessation; end. As, the expiration of, a lease, of a contract, or statute. 2. In general, the expiration of EXPORTATION , commercial law. The act of sending goods and merchandise from one country to another. 2 Mann. & Gran. 155; 3 EXPOSE' A French word, sometimes applied to a written document, containing the reasons or motives for doing a thing. T EXPOSITION DE PART , French law. The abandonment of a child, unable to take care of itself, either in a public or private place. EXPRESS . That which is made known, and not left to implication. The opposite of implied. It is a rule, that when a ma EXPRESSION . The term or use of language employed to explain a thing. 2. It is a general rule, that expressions shall be EXPROMISSION , civil law. The act by which a creditor accepts a new debtor, who becomes bound instead of the old, the latte EXPROMMISSOR , civil law. By this term is understood the person who alone becomes bound for the debt of another, whether th EXPULSION . The act of depriving a member of a body politic, corporate, or of a society, of his right of membership ther EXTENSION , comm. law. This term is applied among merchants to signify an agreement made between a debtor and his credit EXTENT IN AID , English practice. An exchequer process, formerly much used, and now liable to be abused; it is regulated by EXTENT IN CHIEF , English practice. An execution issuing out of the exchequer at the suit 'of the crown. It is a mere "fiscal EXTENUATION . That which renders a crime or tort less heinous than it would be without it: it is opposed to aggravation. ( EXTERRITORIALITY . This term is used by French jurists to signify the immunity of certain persons, who, although in the state, EXTINCTION OF A THING . When a thing which is the subject of a contract has been destroyed, the contract is of course rescinded as, EXTINGUISHMENT , contracts. The destruction of a right or contract - the act by which a contract is made void. 2. Art extingu EXTORSIVELY . A technical word used in indictments for extortion. In North Carolina, it seems, the crime of extortion may EXTORTION , crimes. In a large sense it, signifies any oppression, under color of right: but in a more strict sense it m EXTRA VIAM . Out of the way. When, in an action of trespass, the defendant pleads a right of way, the defendant may reply EXTRA-DOTAL PROPERTY . In Louisiana this term is used to designate that property which forms no part of the dowry of a woman, and w EXTRACT . A part of a writing. In general this is not evidence, because the whole of the writing may explain the part EXTRADITION , civil law. The act of sending, by authority of law, a person accused of a crime to a foreign jurisdiction wh EXTRAJUDICIAL . That which does not belong to the judge or his jurisdiction, notwithstanding which he takes. cognizance of i EXTRAVAGANTES , canon law. This is the name given to the constitutions of the popes posterior to the Clementines; they are t EXTREMIS . When a person is sick beyond the hope of recovery, and near death, he is said to be in extremism. 2. A will EY . A watery place; water. Co. Litt 6. EYE-WITNESS . One who saw the act or fact to which he testifies. When an eye-witness testifies, and is a man of intelligen EYOTT . A small island arising in a river. Fleta, lib. 3, c. 2, s. b; Bract. lib. 2, c. 2. See lsand. EYRE . Vide Eire Justiciarii Itinerantes. Quick Search Labor Law Posters Our Complete labor law poster combines the mandated State, Federal, & OSHA posters on one poster.

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