EMBLEMENTS, rights. By this term is understood the crops growing upon the land. By crops is here meant the products of the earth which grow yearly and...
EMBEZZLEMENT, crim. law. The fraudulently removing and secreting of personal property, with which the party has been entrusted, for the purpose of app...
ELSEWHERE. In another place.2. Where one devises all his land in A, B and C, three distinct towns, and elsewhere, and had lands of much greater value ...
ELISORS, practice. Two persons appointed by the court to return a jury, when the sheriff and the coroner have been challenged as incompetent; in this ...
ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT. Persons elected by the people, whose sole duty is to elect a president and vice-president of the U. S.2. The Constitution provi...
ELECTION OF ACTIONS, practice. It is frequently at the choice of the plaintiff what kind of an action to bring; a skilful practitioner would naturally...
EJUSDEM GENERIS. Of the same kind.2. In the construction of laws, wills and other instruments, when certain things are enumerated, and then a phrase i...
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 form...
ECLAMPSIA PARTURIENTIUM, med. jur. The name of a disease accompanied by apoplectic convulsions, and which produces aberration of mind at childbirth. T...
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...