Terms beginning with "E" (344 total)

E. 924; Marsden Co

v. State Board of Assessors, 61 N. J. Law, 461, 39 Atl. 638; People v. Knight, 174 N. Y¥. 475, 67 N. E. 65, 63 L. R. A. 87.—Personal franchise. A franchise of corporate existence, or one which authorizes the formation...

EABS

YEAS AND NAYS. The affirmative and negative votes on a bill or measure before a legislative assembly. “Calling the yeas and nays” is calling for the individual and oral vote of each member, usually upon a call

EAR-MARE

persons or things mentioned; every one of two or more persons or things, composing the whole, separately considered. The effect of this word, used in the covenants of a bond, is to create a several obligation. Seiler vy....

Easem

516; Sweet.—Secondary easement. One which is appurtenant to the primary or actual easement; every easement includes such “secondary easements,” that is, the right to do such things as are necessary for the full enj...

Easement

means the amount owned by the company over and above its capital and actual liabilities. rohibited from doing something otherwise law- ‘ul upon his estate, because it will affect the dominant estate, (as interrupting ...

Eason v. State, 11 Ark

482.—Criminal cone versation. Adultery, considered in its aspect of a civil injury to the Eusband entitling him to damages: the tort of debauching or seducing of a wife. Often abbreviated to crim. con.— Criminal inte...

EASTERLING

used only at times, and not continuously. Eaton v. Railroad Co., 51 N. H. 504, 12 Am. Rep. 147.—Quasi easement. An “easement,” in the proper sense of the word, can ont exist in respect of two adjoining pieces of la...

EASTERLY

EASTERLY. This wofd, when used alone, will be construed to mean “due east.” But that is a rule of necessity growing out of the indefiniteness of the term, and has bo application where other words are used for the pur...

Eaton, 55 Mich

362, 21 N. W. 429; Loventhal v. Home Ins. Co., 112 Ala. 108, 20 South, 419, 33 L. R. A. 57 Am. St. Rep. 17; Irving v. Brownell. 11 Ill. 414; Roberts v. Wentworth, 5 Cush. (Mass.) 193; Campfield v. Johneon, 21 N. J. Law, ...

EB

80, 41L. R.A. 344. 911. 180. A dormant judgment is one which has not been satisfied nor extinguished by lapse of time, but which has remained so long upnexecuted that execution cannot now be issued upon it without firs...

Ed

619. 55. 6090.—Cross-appeal. Where both parties 869; State v. Compson, 34 Or. 25, 54 Pac. 349; Reid v. Gorsuch, 67 N. J. Law, °896, 51 689; Barrett v. Bloomfield Sav. Inst., 64 746; Feeney v. Howard, 79. Cal. 525...

Edw. Ch

(N Y.) 627; Sherman v. Hale, 76 Iowa, 383, 41 N. W. 48; Naylor v. Smith, 63 N. J. Law, 596, 44 Atl. 649; Hurdle y, Hanner, 50 N. C. 360; Wills v. Browning, 96 Ind. 149, (N. Y¥.) 880; Hart v. Miller, 29 Ind.

Edward III

in 1344; next follows a knight banneret; then come knights of the Bath, instituted by Henry IV., and revived by George I.; and they were so called from a ceremony of bathing the night before their creation. The last orde...

Edwards, 50 Barb

(N. Y.) 288; Lyon v. Alvord, 18 Conn. 80 ere an owner of goods to be shipped by sea consigns them to the care of an agent, who sails on the same vessel, has charge of the cargo on board, sells it abroad, and buys a retur...

EFFECTUS SEQUITUR CAUSAM

would embrace the whole estate; but the word “effects” alone must be confined to personal estate simply, unless an intention appears to the contrary. Schouler, Wills, § 509. See Adams v. Akerlund, 168 Ill. 632, 48 N...

EFFUSIO SANGUINIS. In

old English law. The shedding of blood; the mulct, fine, wite, or penalty imposed for the shedding of blood, which the king granted to many lords of manors. Cowell; Tomlins. See BLoopwIirt.

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