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  • ESTREPE
    To strip; to despoil; to lay waste; to commit waste upon an estate, as by cutting down trees, removing buildings, etc. To injure the value of a reversionary interest by stripping or spoiling the estate.
  • ESTREPEMENT
    A species of aggravated waste, by stripping or devastating the land, to the injury of the reversioner, and especially pending a suit for possession. -Estrepement, writ of. This was a common-law writ of waste, which lay in particular for the reversioner against the tenant for life, in respect of damage More...
  • ET
    And. The introductory word of several Latin and law French phrases formerly in common use.
  • ET ADJOURNATUR
    And it is adjourned. A phrase used in the old reports, where the argument of a cause was adjourned to another day, or where a second argument was had. 1 Keb. 692, 754, 773.
  • ET AL
    An abbreviation for et alii, "and others."
  • ET ALLI E' CONTRA
    And others on the other side. A phrase constantly used in the Year Books, in describing a Joinder in issue. P. 1 Edw. II. Prist; et alii e contra, ct sic ad patriam: ready; and others, e contra, and so to the country. T. 3 Edw. III. 4.
  • ET ALIUS
    And another. The abbreviation et al. (sometimes in the plural written et als.) is affixed to the name of the person first mentioned, where there are several plaintiffs, grantors, persons addressed, etc.
  • ET ALLOCATUR
    And it is allowed.
  • ET CAETERA
    And others; and other things; and so on. In its abbreviated form (etc.) this phrase is frequently affixed to one of a series of articles or names to show that others are intended to follow or understood to be included. So, after reciting the initiatory words of a set formula, More...
  • ET DE CEO SE METTENT EN LE PAYS
    L. Fr. And of this they put themselves upon the country.
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