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  • ELIMINATION
    In old English law. The act of banishing or turning out of doors; rejection.
  • ELINGUATION
    The punishment of cutting out the tongue.
  • ELISORS
    In practice. Electors or choosers. Persons appointed by the court to execute writs of venire, in cases where both the sheriff and coroner are disqualified from acting, and whose duty is to choose that is, name and return-the jury. 3 Bl. Comm. 355; Co. Litt 158; 3 Steph. Comm. 597, More...
  • ELL
    A measure of length, answering to the modern yard. 1 Bl. Comm. 275.
  • ELOGIUM
    In the civil law. A will or testament.
  • ELOIGNE
    In practice. (Fr. eloigner, to remove to a distance; to remove afar off.) A return to a writ of replevin, when the chattels have been removed out of the way of the sheriff.
  • ELOIGNMENT
    The getting a thing or person out of the way; or removing it to a distance, so as to be out of reach. Garneau' v. Mill Co., 8 Wash. 467, 36 Pac. 463.
  • ELONGATA
    In practice. Eloigned; carried away to a distance. The old form of the return made by a sheriff to a writ of replevin, stating that the goods or beasts had been eloigned; that is, carried to a distance, to places to him unknown. 3 Bl. Comm. 148; 3 Steph. Comm. More...
  • ELONGATUS
    Eloigned. A return made by a sheriff to a writ de homine replegiando, stating that the party to be replevied has been eloigned, or conveyed out of his jurisdiction. 3 Bl. Comm. 129.
  • ELONGAVIT
    In England, where in a proceeding by foreign attachment the plain- tiff has obtained judgment of appraisement, but by reason of some act of the garnishee the goods cannot be appraised, (as where he has removed them from the city, or has sold them, etc.,) the serjeant-at-maee returns that; the More...
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