Legal Terms- E

Question 1

EASEMENT

Answer 1

A liberty, privilege, or advantage without profit, in the lands of another.

Question 2

EGRESS

Answer 2

Act or right of going out or leaving; emergence.

Question 3

EIUSDEM GENERIS

Answer 3

Of the same kind, class or nature. A rule used in the construction of language in a legal document.

Question 4

EMBEZZLEMENT

Answer 4

To steal; to appropriate fraudulently to one’s own use property entrusted to one’s care.

Question 5

EMBRACERY

Answer 5

Unlawful attempt to influence jurors, etc. but not by offering value.

Question 6

EMINENT DOMAIN

Answer 6

The right of a state to take private property for public use.

Question 7

ENACT

Answer 7

To make a law.

Question 8

ENDORSEMENT

Answer 8

Act of writing one’s own name on the back of a note, bill, or similar written instrument.

Question 9

ENJOIN

Answer 9

To require a person by writ of injunction from a court of equity, to perform or to abstain or desist from some act.

Question 10

ENTIRETY

Answer 10

The whole; that which the law considers as one whole, and not capable of being divided into parts.

Question 11

ENTRAPMENT

Answer 11

Inducing one to commit a crime so as to arrest him.

Question 12

ENUMERATED

Answer 12

Mentioned specifically; designated.

Question 13

ENURE

Answer 13

To operate or take effect.

Question 14

EQUITY

Answer 14

In its broadest sense, this term denotes the spirit and the habit of fairness, justness, and right dealing which regulate the conduct of men.

Question 15

ERROR

Answer 15

A mistake of law, or the false or irregular application of law as will nullify the judicial proceedings.

Question 16

ESCROW

Answer 16

A deed, bond or other written engagement, delivered to a third person, to be delivered by him only upon the performance or fulfillment of some condition.

Question 17

ESTATE

Answer 17

The interest which any one has in lands, or in any other subject of property.

Question 18

ESTOP

Answer 18

To stop, bar, or impede.

Question 19

ESTOPPEL

Answer 19

A rule of law which prevents a man from alleging or denying a fact, because of his own previous act.

Question 20

ET AL. (alii)

Answer 20

And others.

Question 21

ET SEQ. (sequential)

Answer 21

And the following.

Question 22

ET UX (uxor)

Answer 22

And wife.

Question 23

EVIDENCE

Answer 23

Testimony, writings, material objects or other things presented to the senses that are offered to prove the existence or nonexistence of a fact.

Means from which inferences may be drawn as a basis of proof in duly constituted judicial or fact finding tribunals, and includes testimony in the form of opinion and hearsay.

Question 24

EX CONTRACTU

Answer 24

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Question 25

EX DELICTO

Answer 25

In law, rights and causes of action are divided into two classes, those arising ex contract (from a contract) and those arising ex delicto (from a delict or tort)

Question 26

EX OFICIO

Answer 26

From office; by virtue of the office.

Question 27

EX PARTE

Answer 27

One one side only; by or for one.

Question 28

EX POST FACTO

Answer 28

After the fact.

Question 29

EX POST FACTO LAW

Answer 29

A law passed after an act was done which retroactively makes such an act a crime.

Question 30

EX REL. (relations)

Answer 30

Upon relation or information.

Question 31

EXCEPTION

Answer 31

An objection upon a matter of law to a decision made, either before or after judgement by a court.

Question 32

EXECUTOR (male)

Answer 32

See EXECUTRIX (female)

Question 33

EXECUTRIX (female)

Answer 33

A person who has been appointed by will to execute the will.

Question 34

EXECUTORY

Answer 34

That which is yet to be executed or performed.

Question 35

EXEMPT

Answer 35

To release from some liability to which others are subject.

Question 36

EXONERATION

Answer 36

The removal of a burden, charge or duty.

Question 37

EXTRADITION

Answer 37

Surrender of a fugitive from one nation to another.