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Et al






Et al

An abbreviation of the Latin et alii, meaning "and others," ordinarily used in lieu of listing all names of persons involved in a proceeding.

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Abbreviation
Practice. The omission of some words or letters in writing

Lieu
Place. Iu lieu of, instead, in the place of.

Proceeding
In its general acceptation, this word means the form in which actions are to be brought and defended, the manner of intervening in suits, of conducting them, the mode of deciding them, of opposing judgments and of executing.



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Estoppel
A rule of law that when person A, by act or words, gives person B reason to believe a certain set of facts upon which person B takes action, person A cannot later, to his (or her) benefit, deny those facts or say that his (or her) earlier act was improper. A 1891 English court decision summarized estoppel as "a rule of evidence which precludes a person from denying the truth of some statement previously made by himself".

Estovers
Estates. The right of taking necessary wood for the use or furniture of a house or farm, from off another's estate.

Estrays
Cattle whose owner is unknown.

Estreat
This term is used to signify a true copy or note of some original writing or record, and specially of flues and amercements imposed by a court, and extracted from the record, and certified to a proper officer or officers authorized and required to collect them.

Estrepe
This word is derived from the French, estropier, to cripple. It signifies an injury to lands, to the damage of another, as a reversioner. This is prevented by a writ of estrepemeut.

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Et cetera
(United Kingdom) Other things of that type .

Et non
And not. These words are sometimes employed in pleading to convey a pointed denial.

Et seq
An abbreviation for the Latin et sequentes, meaning "and the following," ordinarily used in referring to a section of statutes.

Ethics
Of or relating to moral action and conduct; professionally right; conforming to professional standards.

Eundo morando, et redeundo
This Latin phrase signifies going, remaining, and returning. It is employed in cases where a person either as a party, a witness, or one acting in some other capacity, as an elector, is privileged from arrest, in order to give him that freedom necessary to the performance of his respective obligations, to signify that he is protected from arrest eundo, morando et redeundo.

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