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  • ELECTOR
    A duly qualified voter; one who has a vote in the choice of any officer: a constituent Appeal of CusLck, 136 Pa. 450, 20 Atl. 574, 10 L. R. A. 228; Bergevin v. Curtz, 127 Cal. 86, 59 Pac. 312; State v. Tuttle, 53 Wis. 45, 9 N. W. 791. More...
  • ELECTORAL
    Pertaining to electors or elections; composed or consisting of electors. -Electoral college. The body of princes formerly entitled to elect the emperor of Germany. Also a name sometimes given, in the United States, to the body of electors chosen by the people to elect the president and vice-president. Webster.
  • ELECTROCUTE
    To put to death by passing through the body a current of elec; trlcity of high power. This term, descriptive of the method of Inflicting the death penalty on convicted criminals in some of the states, is a vulgar neologism of hybrid origin, which should be discountenanced.
  • ELEEMOSYNA REGIS, AND ELEEMOSYNA ARATRI, OR CARUCARUM
    A penny which King Ethelred ordered to be paid for every plow in England towards the support of the poor. Leg. Ethel, c. 1.
  • ELEEMOSYNAE
    Possessions belonging to the church. Blount
  • ELEEMOSYNARIA
    The place in a religious house where the common alms were deposited, and thence by the almoner distributed to the poor. In old English law. The aumerie, auntbry, or ambry; words still used in common speech in the north of England, to denote a pantry or cupboard. Cowell. The office More...
  • ELEEMOSYNARIUS
    In old English law. An almoner, or chief officer, who received the eleemosynary rents anl gifts, and in due method distributed them to pious and charitable uses. Cowell; Wharton. The name of an officer (lord almoner) of the English kings, in former times, who distributed the royal alms or bounty. More...
  • ELEEMOSYNARY
    Relating to the distribution of alms, bounty, or charity; charitable. -Eleemosynary corporations. See CORPORATIONS.
  • ELEGANTER
    In the civil law. Accurately; with discrimination. Veazie v. Williams, 3 Story, 611, 636, Fed. Cas. No. 16,907.
  • ELEGIT
    (Lat. He has chosen.) This Is the name, in English practice, of a writ of execution first given by the statute of Westm. 2 (13 Edw. I. c. 18) either upon a judgment for a debt or damages or upon the forfeiture of a recognizance taken in the king's court More...
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