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  • DE EJECTIONE FIRMAE
    A writ which lay at the suit of the tenant for years against the lessor, reversioner, remainderman, or stranger who had himself deprived the tenant of the occupation of the land during his term. 3 Bl. Comm. 199. By a gradual extension of the scope of this form of action More...
  • DE ESCAETA
    Writ of escheat. A writ which a lord had, where his tenant died without heir, to recover the land. Reg. Orig. 1646; Fitzh. Nat Brev. 143, 144, E.
  • DE ESCAMBIO MONETAE
    A writ of exchange of money. An ancient writ to au; thorize a merchant to make a bill of exchange, (literas carnbitorias facere.) Reg. Orig. 194.
  • DE ESSE IN PEREGRINATIONE
    Of being on a Journey. A species of essoin. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 119.
  • DE ESSENDO QUIETUM DE TOLONIO
    A writ which lay for those who were by privilege free from the payment of toll, on their being molested therein. Fitzh. Nat Brev. 226; Reg. Orig. 258b.
  • DE ESSONIO DE MALO LECTI
    A writ which issued upon an essoin of malum lecti being cast, to examine whether the party was in fact sick or not. Reg. Orig. 86.
  • DE ESTOVERIIS HABENDIS
    Writ for having estovers. A writ which lay for a wife divorced a mensa et thoro. to recover her alimony or estovers. 1 Bl. Comm. 441; 1 Lev. 6.
  • DE ESTREPAMENTO
    A writ which lay to prevent or stay waste by a tenant, during the pendency of a suit against him to recover the lands. Reg. Orig. 706. Fitzh. Nat Brev. 60.
  • DE EU ET TRENE
    L. Fr. Of water and whip of three cords. A term applied to a neife, that is, a bond woman or female villein, as employed in servile work, and subject to corporal punishment Co. Litt. 256.
  • DE EVE ET DE TREVE
    A law French phrase, equivalent to the Latin de avo et da tritavo, descriptive of the ancestral rights of lords in their villeins. Literally, "from grandfather and from great-grandfather's great-grandfather." It occurs in the Year Books.
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