Category: E
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Extent
Definition of Extent The writ to recover debts of record due to the Crown, directed to the sheriff, who proceeded to make a valuation of the property of the debtor by means of a statement on oath of a jury. An extent in chief is a proceeding by the Crown for the recovery of a…
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Extradition
Definition of Extradition The delivery up of a person who has committed a crime in another country by the authorities of the country in which he has taken refuge, to the authorities of the country where the crime was committed.The law on the subject as regards this country is contained in the […]
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Exterritoriality
Definition of Exterritoriality A legal fiction by which certain persons and things are deemed for the purpose of jurisdiction and control to be outside the territory of the State in which they really are, and within that of some other State. Its principal applications are :(1) Sovereigns, […]
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Eyre V. Countess Of Shaftesbury
Definition of Eyre V. Countess Of Shaftesbury ((1722, 2 P. Wms. 103). An infant’s mother procured the marriage of a ward of Court without the consent of the gifardian. Held, that the mother was liable for a contempt’ of Court, although the marriage was in other respects proper Browse You might […]
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Extinguishment
Definition of Extinguishment The cesser of a right or obligation, particularly by operation of consolidation or merger. The right to a sum of money is extinguished when a debt is paid. An easement is extinguished when the dominant and servient tenements become united in the same person Browse […]
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Extradition
Definition of Extradition The delivery up of a person who has committed a crime in another country by the authorities of the country in which he has taken refuge, to the authorities of the country where the crime was committed.The law on the subject as regards this country is contained in the […]
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Expatriation
Definition of Expatriation Loss of nationality by renunciation of allegiance, and the acquisition of a foreign nationality Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Expatriation in the Dictionaries, Expatriation in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, […]
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Extrajudicial
Definition of Extrajudicial Outside judicial procedure, e.g., distress ; a dictum Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Extrajudicial in the Dictionaries, Extrajudicial in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse topics from the European […]
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Expectant Heir
Definition of Expectant Heir Everyone who has either a vested remainder or a contingent remainder in a family property, including a remainder in a portion, as well as a remainder in an estate, and everyone who has the hope of succession to the property of an ancestor, either by reason of being […]
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Eyre
Definition of Eyre (Latin, itcr a journey.) The justices in eyre were regularly established in 1176, with a delegated power from the King’s Great Court or Aula Ttegia, and they made their circuit round the kingdom once in seven years, for the purpose of trying causes, and reviewing the whole […]