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Escuage
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EscuageOld English law. Service of the shield. Tenants who hold their land by escuage, hold by knight's service.
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Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Service
1) Contracts. The being employed to serve another. 2) Feudal law. That duty which the tenant owes to his lord, by reason of his fee or estate. 3) Practice. To execute a writ or process; as, to serve a writ of capias signifies to arrest a defendant under the process;
Hold
To decide, adjudge, decree. Whence also freehold and leasehold. "Holding", relating to ownership in property, embraces two idea: actual possession of some subject of property, and being invested with the legal title. It may be applied to anything the subject of property, in law or in equity.
Escuage
Old English law. Service of the shield. Tenants who hold their land by escuage, hold by knight's service.
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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.
Escrow
When the performance of something is outstanding and a third party holds onto money or a written document (such as shares or a deed) until a certain condition is met between the two contracting parties.
Escuage
Esnecy
Eldership. In the English law, this word signifies the right which the eldest coparcener of lands has to choose one of the parts of the estate after it has been divided.
Esplees
The products which the land or ground yields.
Espousals
Contracts. A mutual promise between a man and a woman to marry each other, at some other time: it differs from a marriage, because then the contract is completed.
Esquire
A title applied by courtesy to officers of almost every description, to members of the bar, and others.
Essoin
Practice. An excuse which a party bound to be in court on a particular day, offers for not being there.
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Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Service
1) Contracts. The being employed to serve another. 2) Feudal law. That duty which the tenant owes to his lord, by reason of his fee or estate. 3) Practice. To execute a writ or process; as, to serve a writ of capias signifies to arrest a defendant under the process;
Hold
To decide, adjudge, decree. Whence also freehold and leasehold. "Holding", relating to ownership in property, embraces two idea: actual possession of some subject of property, and being invested with the legal title. It may be applied to anything the subject of property, in law or in equity.
Escuage
Old English law. Service of the shield. Tenants who hold their land by escuage, hold by knight's service.
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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.
Escrow
When the performance of something is outstanding and a third party holds onto money or a written document (such as shares or a deed) until a certain condition is met between the two contracting parties.
Escuage
Esnecy
Eldership. In the English law, this word signifies the right which the eldest coparcener of lands has to choose one of the parts of the estate after it has been divided.
Esplees
The products which the land or ground yields.
Espousals
Contracts. A mutual promise between a man and a woman to marry each other, at some other time: it differs from a marriage, because then the contract is completed.
Esquire
A title applied by courtesy to officers of almost every description, to members of the bar, and others.
Essoin
Practice. An excuse which a party bound to be in court on a particular day, offers for not being there.
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