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Erotic mania
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Erotic maniaMedical jurisprudence. A name given to a morbid activity of the sexual propensity. It is a disease or morbid affection of the mind, which fills it with a crowd of voluptuous images, and hurries its victim to acts of the grossest licentiousness, in the absence of any lesion of the intellectual powers.
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Jurisprudence
Formal study of the principles on which legal rules are based and the means by which judges guide their decision making.
Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.
Affection
Contracts. The making over, pawning, or mortgaging a thing to assurp the payment of a sum of money, or the discharge of some other duty or service.
Licentiousness
The doing what one pleases without regard to the rights of others; it differs from liberty in this, that the latter is restrained by natural or positive law, and consists in doing whatever we please, not inconsistent, with the rights of others, whereas the former does not respect those rights.
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Equivocal
What has a double sense.
Equuleus
The name of a kind of rack for extorting confessions.
Erasure
Contracts, evidence. The obliteration of a writing; it will render it void or not under the same circumstances as an interlineation.
Eregimus
We have erected.
Erie doctrine
The American rule that a U.S. federal district court exercising "diversity jurisdiction" (i.e. jurisdiction in a case in which the parties are from different U.S. states or where a foreigner sues an American citizen), must apply the law of the U.S. state in which it is sitting.
Erotic mania
Error, writ
A writ of error is one issued fro a superior to an inferior court, for the purpose of bringing up the record and correcting an alleged error committed in the trial in the court below. But it cannot deliver the body from prison.
Escape hatches
Escape hatches (escape clauses) are found in codes or statutes and permit a different law to apply as a general rule or permit a particular rule or presumption to be ignored if the court believes it is wise to do so. Escape hatches permit a choice of law rule or choice of law presumption to be circumvented when it is clear that the law chosen has only a slight connection to the facts of the case and another law has a much closer connection.
Escape, warrant of
A warrant issued in England against a person who being charged in custody in the king's bench or Fleet prison, in execution or mesne process, escapes and goes at large.
Escheat
Where property is returned to the government upon the death of the owner, because there is nobody to inherit the property. Escheat is based on the Latin principle of dominion directum as was often used in the feudal system when a tenant died without heirs or if the tenant was convicted of a felony.
Escheator
The name of an officer whose duties are generally to ascertain what escheats have taken place, and to prosecute the claim of the commonwealth for the purpose of recovering the escheated property.
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Jurisprudence
Formal study of the principles on which legal rules are based and the means by which judges guide their decision making.
Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.
Affection
Contracts. The making over, pawning, or mortgaging a thing to assurp the payment of a sum of money, or the discharge of some other duty or service.
Licentiousness
The doing what one pleases without regard to the rights of others; it differs from liberty in this, that the latter is restrained by natural or positive law, and consists in doing whatever we please, not inconsistent, with the rights of others, whereas the former does not respect those rights.
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Equivocal
What has a double sense.
Equuleus
The name of a kind of rack for extorting confessions.
Erasure
Contracts, evidence. The obliteration of a writing; it will render it void or not under the same circumstances as an interlineation.
Eregimus
We have erected.
Erie doctrine
The American rule that a U.S. federal district court exercising "diversity jurisdiction" (i.e. jurisdiction in a case in which the parties are from different U.S. states or where a foreigner sues an American citizen), must apply the law of the U.S. state in which it is sitting.
Erotic mania
Error, writ
A writ of error is one issued fro a superior to an inferior court, for the purpose of bringing up the record and correcting an alleged error committed in the trial in the court below. But it cannot deliver the body from prison.
Escape hatches
Escape hatches (escape clauses) are found in codes or statutes and permit a different law to apply as a general rule or permit a particular rule or presumption to be ignored if the court believes it is wise to do so. Escape hatches permit a choice of law rule or choice of law presumption to be circumvented when it is clear that the law chosen has only a slight connection to the facts of the case and another law has a much closer connection.
Escape, warrant of
A warrant issued in England against a person who being charged in custody in the king's bench or Fleet prison, in execution or mesne process, escapes and goes at large.
Escheat
Where property is returned to the government upon the death of the owner, because there is nobody to inherit the property. Escheat is based on the Latin principle of dominion directum as was often used in the feudal system when a tenant died without heirs or if the tenant was convicted of a felony.
Escheator
The name of an officer whose duties are generally to ascertain what escheats have taken place, and to prosecute the claim of the commonwealth for the purpose of recovering the escheated property.
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