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  • ETIQUETTE OF THE PROFESSION
    The code of honor agreed on by mutual understanding and tacitly accepted by members of the legal profession, especially by the bar. Wharton. Eum qui nooentem infamat, son est "quum et bonum ob earn rem condem-nari; dellcta enim noeentinm nota esse oportet et expedit. It is not just and proper More...
  • EUNDO ET REDEUNDO
    Lat. In going and returning. Applied to vessels. 3 C. Rob. Adm. 141.
  • EUNDO, MORANDO, ET REDEUNDO
    Lat. Going, remaining, and returning. A person who is privileged from arrest (as a witness, legislator, etc.) is generally so privileged eundo, morando, et redeundo; that is, on his way to the place where his duties are to be performed, while he remains there, and on his return journey.
  • EUNOMY
    Equal laws and a well-adjusted constitution of government.
  • EUNUCH
    A male of the human species who has been castrated. See Domat liv. pr. tit 2, | 1, n. 10. Eckert v. Van Pelt 69 Kan. 357, 76 Pac 909, 66 L. R. A. 266.
  • EVASIO
    Lat. In old practice. An escape from prison or custody. Reg. Orig. 312.
  • EVASION
    A subtle endeavoring to set aside truth or to escape the punishment of the law. This will not be allowed. If one person says to another that he will not strike him, but will give him a pot of ale to strike first, and, accordingly, the latter strikes, the returning More...
  • EVASIVE
    Tending or seeking to evade; elusive; shifting; as an evasive argument or plea.
  • EVENINGS
    In old English law. The delivery at even or night of a certain portion of grass, or corn, etc., to a customary tenant who performs the service of cutting, mowing, or reaping for his lord, given him as a gratuity or encouragement. Kennett Gloss.
  • EVENT
    In reference to judicial and quasi judicial proceedings, the "event" means the conclusion, end, or final outcome or result of a litigation; as, in the phrase "abide the event," speaking of costs or of an agreement that one suit shall be governed by the determination in another. Reeves v. McGregor, More...
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