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Search Results for "E" E CONVERSO On the other side or hand, on the contrary. ... more E PLURIBUS UNUM One from more. The motto of the arms of the United States. ... more EAGLE money. A gold coin of the United States, of the value of ten dollars. It weighs two hundred and fifty-eight grains. Of one thousand parts, nine hundred... more EAR-WITNESS One who attests to things he has heard himself. ... more EARL Eng. law. A title of nobility next below a marquis and above a viscount. 2. Earls were anciently called comites, because they were wont comitari regem,... more EARLDOM The seigniory of an earl, the title and dignity of an earl. ... more EARNEST contracts. 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. ... more EASEMENTS estates. An easement is defined to be a liberty privilege or advantage, which one man may have in the lands of another, without profit, it may arise... more 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 ending the 8th... more 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, that he be dismissed. Danes... more EAVES-DROPPERS crim. law. Persons as wait under walls or windows or the eaves of a house, to listen to discourses, and thereupon to frame mischievous tales. 2. The... more ECCHYMOSIS med. jur. 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... more ECCLESIA In classical Greek this word signifies any assembly, and in this sense it is used in Acts xix. 39. But ordinarily, in the New Testament, the... more ECCLESIASTIC A clergyman, one destined to the divine ministry, as, a bishop, a priest, a deacon. Dom. Lois Civ. liv. prel. t. 2, s. 2, n.... more ECCLESIASTICAL Belonging to, or set apart for the church, as, distinguished from civil or secular. Vide Church. ... more ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS English law. Courts held by the kings authority as supreme governor of the church, for matters which chiefly concern religion. 2. There are ten courts... more ECCLESIASTICAL LAW By this phrase it is intended to include all those rules which govern ecclesiastical tribunals. Vide Law Canon. ... more ECCLESIASTICS canon law. Those persons who compose the hierarchial state of the church. They are regular and secular. Aso & Man. Inst. B. 2, t. 5, c. 4, 1. ... more ECLAMPSIA PARTURIENTIUM med. jur. The name of a disease accompanied by apoplectic convulsions, and which produces aberration of mind at childbirth. The word Eclampsia is of Greek origin -... more EDICT A law ordained by the sovereign, by which he forbids or commands something it extends either to the whole country, or only to some particular provinces. ... more |