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Category: E
EX DEBITO JUSTTTUE
From or as a debt of justice; ln accordance with the re-qulrement of justice; of right; as a matter of right The opposite of ex gratia, (q. v.) 3 Bl. Comm. 48, 67
EX CURIA
Out of court; away from the court
EX OONTINENTI
Immediately; without any Interval or delay; incontinently. A term of the civil law. Calvin
EX CONSULTO
with consultation or deliberation
EX CONCESSIS
From the premises granted. According to what has been already allowed
EX COMPARATIONE SCRIPTORUM
By a comparison of writings or handwritings. A term ln the law of evidence. Best, Pres. 218.
EX COMMODATO
From or out of. loan. A term applied in the old law of Eng-land to a right of action arising out of a loan, (oommodatum.) Glanv. llb. 10, c. 13; 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 166
EX COMITATE
out of comity or. courtesy
EX COLORE
By color; under color of; under pretense, show, or protection of. Thus, ex colore officii, under color of office
EX CERTA SCIENTIA
of certain or sure knowledge. These words were ancient-ly used In patents, and imported full knowl-edge of the subject-matter on the part of the king. See 1 Coke, 40b
EX CAUSA
L. Lat. By title
EX CATHEDRA
From the chair, originally applled to the declslons of the
EX BONIS
of the goods or property. A term of the civil law; dlstlngulshed from fn bonis, as being descriptive of or applicable to property not in actual possession. Calvin
EX ASSENSU SUO
with his assent Formal words ln judgments for damages by default Comb. 220
EX ASSENSU CURLS
By or with the consent of the court
EX ARBITRIO JUDICIS
At, in, or
EQUITATE
TATE. According, to equlty; in equity. Fleta, llb. 3, c. 10, $ 3
EX ADVERSO
on the other slde. 2 Show. 461. Applled to counsel
EX ABUNDANTI
out of abundance; abundantly; superfluously; more than suffl-cient Calvin
EWRY
An office in the royal house-hold where the table linen, etc., is taken care of. wharton
EWBRICE
CE. Adultery; spouse breach; marriage breach. Cowell; Tomlins
EWAGE
(L. Fr. Etoe, water.) In old English law. Toll paid for water passage, The same as aquage. Tomlins
EVOCATION
In French law. The withdrawal of a cause from the cognizance of an inferior court, and bringing it before another court or judge. In some respects this process resembles the proceedings upon
EVTDENTIARY
Havlng the quality of evldence; constituting evidence; evidencing. A term introduced by Bentham, and, from Its convenience, adopted by other writers
EVIDENCE OF TITLE
A deed or oth-er document establishing the title to prop-erty, especially real estate
EVIDENCE OF DEBT
A term ap-plied to written Instruments or securities for the payment of money, importing on their face the existence of a debt 1 Rev. St N. Y. p. 599, 8 55
EVTCTION
Dispossession by process of law; the act of depriving a person of the possession of lands which he has held, in pursuance of the Judgment of a court. Rea-soner v. Edmundson, 5 Ind. 395; Cowdrey v. Colt, 44 N. Y. 392, 4 Am. Rep. 690; Home Life Ins. Co. v. Sherman, 46 N. Y. 372
EVICT
In tbo civil law. To recover anything from a person by virtue of the judgment of a court or judicial sentence
EVES-DROPPERS
See Eaves-Dbop-pers
EVERY
Each one of all; the term in-cludes all the separate individuals who constitute the whole, regarded one by one. Geary v. Parker, 65 Ark. 521, 47 S. W. 238; Purdy v. People, 4 HUI (N. Y.) 413
EVENINGS
In old English law. The dellvery at even or night of a certain por-tion of grass, or com, etc., to a customary tenant, who performs the service of cutting, mowing, or reaplng for hls lord, given him
EVASIVE
Tendlng or seeking to evade; eluslve; shifting; as an evasive argument or plea
EVASION
A subtle endeavoring to set aside truth or to escape the punishment of the law. This wlll not be allowed. If one person says to another that he will not strike him, but wlll glve him a pot of ale to strike first, and, accordingly, the latter strikes, the returning the blow is punishable; and, […]
EVASIO
Lat. In old practlce. An es-cape from prison or custody. Reg. orig. 312
EUNUCH
A male of the human species who has been castrated. See Domat, llv. prel. tlt. 2, $ 1, n. 10. Eckert v. Van Pelt, 69 Kan. 357, 76 Pac. 909, 66 L. R. A. 266
EUNOMY
Equal laws and a well-ad-justed constitution of government
EUNDO, MORANDO, ET REDEUNDO
Lat Going, remaining, and returning. A person who is privileged from arrest (as a witness, legislator, etc.) is generally so privi-leged eundo, morando, et redeundo; that is, on his way to the place where his duties are to be performed, while he remains there, and on his return journey.
EUNDO ET REDEUNDO
Lat In going and returning. Applied to vessels. 3 C. Rob. Adm. 141
ETIQUETTE OF THE PROFESSION
The code of honor agreed on by mutual un-1 derstanding and tacitly accepted by members of the legal profession, especially by the bar.
ET SIC ULTERIUS
And so on; and
ET SIC PENDET
And so it hangs. A term used in the old reports to signify that a point was left undetermined. T. Raym. 168
ET SIC FECIT
And he did so. Yearb
ET SIC AD PATRIAM
And so to the
ET SIC AD JUDICIUM
And so to
ET SIC
And so. In the Latin forms of pleading these were the introductory words of a special conclusion to a plea in bar, the object being to render it positive and not ar-gumentative; as et sic nil debet
ET NON
Lat – And not A technical phrase in pleading, which introduces the neg-ative averments of a special traverse. It has the same force and effect as the words “absque hoc,” and ls occasionally used instead of the latter
ET MODO AD HUNC DIEM
Lat And
ET INDE PRODUCIT SECTAM
And
ET INDE PETIT JUDICIUM
And