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  • EINECIA
    Eldership. See ESNECY.
  • EINETIUS
    In English law. The oldest; the first-born. Spelman.
  • EIRE, OR EYRE
    In old English law. A journey, route, or circuit. Justices in eire were judges who were sent by commission, every seven years, into various counties to hold the assizes and hear pleas of the crown. 3 Bl. Comm. 58.
  • EIRENARCHA
    A name formerly given to a justice of tbe peace. In the Digests, the word is written "irenarcha." Eisdem modis dlssolvitur obligatio "u nascitur ox contractu, Tel quasi, quibus contraaitur. An obligation which arises from contract, or quasi contract, is dissolved in the same ways in which it is contracted. More...
  • EISNE
    The senior; the oldest son. Spelled, also, "eigne," "einsne," "aisene," "eign." Termes de la Ley; Kelham.
  • EISNETIA, EINETIA
    The share of the oldest son. The portion acquired by primogeniture. Termes de la Ley; Co.Litt 166b; Cowell.
  • EITHER
    May be used in the sense of "each." Chidester v. Railway Co.,.59 111. 87. This word does not mean "all;" but does mean one or the other of two or more specified things. Ft Worty St. R. Co. v. Rose-dale St. R. Co., 68 Tex. 169, 4 S. W. 534.
  • EJECT
    To cast, or throw out; to oust or dispossess; to put or turn out of possession. 3 Bl. Comm. 198, 199, 200. See Bo-hannon v. Southern Ry. Co., 112 Ky. 106, 65 S. W. 169.
  • EJECTA
    In old English law. A woman ravished or deflowered, or cast forth from the virtuous. Blount.
  • EJECTION
    A turning out of possession. 3 Bl. Comm. 199.
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