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Ethics
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EthicsOf or relating to moral action and conduct; professionally right; conforming to professional standards.
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Action
1) French commercial. Stock in a company, shares in a corporation. 2)Civil law. An action instituted to avoid a sale onaccount of some Vice or defect in the thing sold which readers it either absolutely useless, or its use so inconvenient and, imperfect, that it must be, supposed the buyer would not have purchased it, had he known of the vice.
Conduct
Law of nations. This term is used in the phrase safe conduct, to signify the security given, by authority of the government, under the great seal, to a stranger, for his quietly coming into and passing out of the territories over which it has jurisdiction.
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.
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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.
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.
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
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.
Eunomy
Equal laws, and a well adjusted constitution of government.
Eunuch
A male whose organs of generation have been so far removed or disorganized, that he is rendered incapable of reproducing his species.
Euro
The currency of the European Union. This currency is now used in all E.U. countries except Denmark, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the ten new countries which join the E.U. on May 1, 2004, but it is anticipated that it will eventually be the currency of all E.U. countries.
European free trade association
The association of Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland in a free trade zone, as provided for by the E.F.T.A. Convention of 1960. N.B.: Austria, Finland and Sweden are no longer members of E.F.T.A., having joined the European Union.
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Action
1) French commercial. Stock in a company, shares in a corporation. 2)Civil law. An action instituted to avoid a sale onaccount of some Vice or defect in the thing sold which readers it either absolutely useless, or its use so inconvenient and, imperfect, that it must be, supposed the buyer would not have purchased it, had he known of the vice.
Conduct
Law of nations. This term is used in the phrase safe conduct, to signify the security given, by authority of the government, under the great seal, to a stranger, for his quietly coming into and passing out of the territories over which it has jurisdiction.
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.
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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.
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.
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
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.
Eunomy
Equal laws, and a well adjusted constitution of government.
Eunuch
A male whose organs of generation have been so far removed or disorganized, that he is rendered incapable of reproducing his species.
Euro
The currency of the European Union. This currency is now used in all E.U. countries except Denmark, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the ten new countries which join the E.U. on May 1, 2004, but it is anticipated that it will eventually be the currency of all E.U. countries.
European free trade association
The association of Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland in a free trade zone, as provided for by the E.F.T.A. Convention of 1960. N.B.: Austria, Finland and Sweden are no longer members of E.F.T.A., having joined the European Union.
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