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Elector
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ElectorGovernment. One who has the right to make choice of public officers one, who has a right to vote.
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Government
"natural and political law. The manner in which sovereignty is exercised in each state. There are three simple forms of government, the democratic, the aristocratic, and monarchical. But these three simple forms may be varied to infinity by the mixture and divisions of their different powers. Sometimes by the word government is understood the body of men, or the individual in the state, to whom is entrusted the executive power. It is taken in this sense when the government is spoken of in opposition to other bodies in the state.
Right
1) Sometimes it signifies a law, as when we say that natural right requires us to keep our promises, or that it commands restitution, or that it forbids murder. In our language it is seldom used in this sense. 2) It sometimes means that quality in our actions by which they are denominated just ones. This is usually denominated rectitude. 3) It is that quality in a person by which he can do certain actions, or possess certain things which belong to him by virtue of some title. In this sense, we use it when we say that a man has a right to his estate or a right to defend himself.
Choice
Preference either of a person or thing, to one of several other persons or things. Election.
Public
By the term the public, is meant the whole body politic, or all the citizens of the state; sometimes it signifies the inhabitants of a particular place; as, the New York public.
Vote
Suffrage; the voice of an individual in making a choice by many. The total number of voices given at an election; as, the presidential vote.
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Electric chair
An instrument of execution by electrocution which resembles a chair.
Electronic surveillance
Listening and/or recording activities using electronic means (audio and video) without being detected. In some jurisdictions, electronic surveillance is unlawful without permission from all parties.
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Ei incumbit probatio qui
(United Kingdom) The onus of proving a fact rests upon the man.
Eigne
Persons. This is a corruption of the French word aine, eldest or first born.
Eire
Eire or Eyre. English law. A journey. Justices in eyre, were itinerant judges, who were sent once in seven years with a general commission in divers counties, to hear and determine such causes as were called pleas of the crown.
Ejusdem generis
of the same kind. When a list of words with specific meanings is followed and expanded by the addition of general words, the latter are to be restricted in their application to things of the same nature as the preceding specific words.
Eldest
He or she who has the greatest age.
Elector
Electronic surveillance
Listening and/or recording activities using electronic means (audio and video) without being detected. In some jurisdictions, electronic surveillance is unlawful without permission from all parties.
Eleemosynary
Charitable alms-giving.
Elegit
English practice, remedies. A writ of execution directed to the sheriff, commanding him to make delivery of a moiety of the party's land, and all his goods, beasts of the plough only excepted.
Elements of a crime
Specific factors that define a crime which the prosecution must prove beyond a reasonable doubt in order to obtain a conviction: (1) that a crime has actually occurred, (2) that the accused intended the crime to happen, and (3) a timely relationship between the first two factors.
Elisors
Practice. Two persons appointed by the court to return a jury, when the sheriff and the coroner have been challenged as incompetent.
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Government
"natural and political law. The manner in which sovereignty is exercised in each state. There are three simple forms of government, the democratic, the aristocratic, and monarchical. But these three simple forms may be varied to infinity by the mixture and divisions of their different powers. Sometimes by the word government is understood the body of men, or the individual in the state, to whom is entrusted the executive power. It is taken in this sense when the government is spoken of in opposition to other bodies in the state.
Right
1) Sometimes it signifies a law, as when we say that natural right requires us to keep our promises, or that it commands restitution, or that it forbids murder. In our language it is seldom used in this sense. 2) It sometimes means that quality in our actions by which they are denominated just ones. This is usually denominated rectitude. 3) It is that quality in a person by which he can do certain actions, or possess certain things which belong to him by virtue of some title. In this sense, we use it when we say that a man has a right to his estate or a right to defend himself.
Choice
Preference either of a person or thing, to one of several other persons or things. Election.
Public
By the term the public, is meant the whole body politic, or all the citizens of the state; sometimes it signifies the inhabitants of a particular place; as, the New York public.
Vote
Suffrage; the voice of an individual in making a choice by many. The total number of voices given at an election; as, the presidential vote.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Electric chair
An instrument of execution by electrocution which resembles a chair.
Electronic surveillance
Listening and/or recording activities using electronic means (audio and video) without being detected. In some jurisdictions, electronic surveillance is unlawful without permission from all parties.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Ei incumbit probatio qui
(United Kingdom) The onus of proving a fact rests upon the man.
Eigne
Persons. This is a corruption of the French word aine, eldest or first born.
Eire
Eire or Eyre. English law. A journey. Justices in eyre, were itinerant judges, who were sent once in seven years with a general commission in divers counties, to hear and determine such causes as were called pleas of the crown.
Ejusdem generis
of the same kind. When a list of words with specific meanings is followed and expanded by the addition of general words, the latter are to be restricted in their application to things of the same nature as the preceding specific words.
Eldest
He or she who has the greatest age.
Elector
Electronic surveillance
Listening and/or recording activities using electronic means (audio and video) without being detected. In some jurisdictions, electronic surveillance is unlawful without permission from all parties.
Eleemosynary
Charitable alms-giving.
Elegit
English practice, remedies. A writ of execution directed to the sheriff, commanding him to make delivery of a moiety of the party's land, and all his goods, beasts of the plough only excepted.
Elements of a crime
Specific factors that define a crime which the prosecution must prove beyond a reasonable doubt in order to obtain a conviction: (1) that a crime has actually occurred, (2) that the accused intended the crime to happen, and (3) a timely relationship between the first two factors.
Elisors
Practice. Two persons appointed by the court to return a jury, when the sheriff and the coroner have been challenged as incompetent.
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