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  • ERIACH
    A term of the Irish Brebon law, denoting a pecuniary mulct or recompense which a murderer was judicially condemned to pay to the family or relatives of his victim. It corresponded to the Saxon "weregild." See 4 Bl. Comm. 313.
  • ERIGIMUS
    We erect. One of the words by which a corporation may be created in England by the king's charter. 1 Bl. Comm. 473.
  • ERMINE
    By metonymy, this term is used to describe the office or functions of a judge, whose state robe, lined with ermine, is emblematical of purity and honor without stain. Webster.
  • ERNES
    In old English law. The loose scattered ears of corn that are left on the ground after the binding.
  • EROSION
    The gradual eating away of the soil by the operation of currents or tides. Distinguished from submergence, which is the disappearance of the soil under the water and the formation of a navigable body over it. Mulry v. Norton, 100 N. Y. 433, 3 N. E. 584, 53 Am. Rep. More...
  • ERRANT
    Wandering; itinerant; applied to justices on circuit and bailiffs at large, etc.
  • ERRATICUM
    In old law. A waif or stray; a wandering beast Cowell.
  • ERRATUM
    Lat. Error. Used in the Latin formula for assigning errors, and in the reply thereto, "In nullo est erratum," i. e., there was no error, no error was committed.
  • ERRONEOUS
    Involving error; deviating from the law. This term is never used by courts or law-writers as designating a corrupt or evil act. Thompson v. Doty, 72 Ind. 338.
  • ERRONIOE
    Lat. Erroneously; through error or mistake.
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