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  • ERABILIS
    A maple tree. Not to be confounded with arabilis, (arable land.)
  • ERASTIANS
    The followers of Erastus. The sect obtained much influence in England, particularly among common lawyers in the time of Selden. They held that offenses against religion and morality should be punished by the civil power, and not by the censures of the church or by excommunication. Wharton.
  • ERASURE
    The obliteration of words or marks from a written instrument by rubbing, scraping, or scratching them out. Also the place in a document where a word or words have been so removed. The term is sometimes used for the removal of parts of a writing by any means whatever, as More...
  • ERCISCUNDUS
    In the civil law. To be divided. Judicium familial erciscundce, a suit for the partition of an inheritance. Inst 4, 17, 4. An ancient phrase derived from the Twelve Tables. Calvin.
  • ERECT
    One of the formal words of incorporation in royal charters. "We do, incorporate, erect, ordain, name, constitute, and establish."
  • ERECTION
    Raising up; building; a completed building. In a statute on the "erection" of wooden buildings, this term does not include repairing, alteration, enlarging, or removal. See Shaw v. Hitchcock, 119 Mass. 256; Martine v. Nelson, 51 111. 422; Douglass v. Com., 2 Rawle (Pa.) 264; Brown v. Hunn, 27 Conn. More...
  • ERGO
    Lat. Therefore; hence; because.
  • ERGOLABI
    In the civil law. Undertakers of work; contractors. Cod. 4, 59.
  • 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.
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