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

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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

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EX COLORE

By color; under color of; under pretense, show, or protection of. Thus, ex colore officii, under color of office

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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

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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

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EWRY

An office in the royal house-hold where the table linen, etc., is taken care of. wharton

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EWAGE

(L. Fr. Etoe, water.) In old English law. Toll paid for water passage, The same as aquage. Tomlins

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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

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EVTDENTIARY

Havlng the quality of evldence; constituting evidence; evidencing. A term introduced by Bentham, and, from Its convenience, adopted by other writers

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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

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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

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EVICT

In tbo civil law. To recover anything from a person by virtue of the judgment of a court or judicial sentence

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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

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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

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EVASIVE

Tendlng or seeking to evade; eluslve; shifting; as an evasive argument or plea

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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, […]

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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