Juridical Dictionary

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Euro






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.

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Currency
The money which passes, at a fixed value, from hand to hand; money which is authorized by law.

Union
By this word is understood the United States of America; as, all good citizens will support the Union.

Kingdom
A country where an officer called a king exercises the powers of government, whether the same be absolute or limited. Wolff, Inst. Nat. 994. In some kingdoms the executive officer may be a woman, who is called a queen.

Will
A will is a legal document in which a person directs how his property is to be distributed after his death. Such documents must be executed in due form and must be duly witnessed.



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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.

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

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.

Euthanasia
The putting to death, by painless method, of a terminally-ill or severely debilitated person through the omission (intentionally withholding a life-saving medical procedure, also known as "passive euthanasia") or commission of an act ("active euthanasia').

Evaluation
A study of the nature, quality, or unity of a parcel of real estate or interests in, or aspects of, real property, in which a value estimate is not necessarily required.

Evasion
A subtle device to set aside the truth, or escape the punishment of the law.

Evasion of the law
A principle of the conflict of laws, better known in civilian jurisdictions which consists of the intentional and improper manipulation of contacts (connecting factors), in order to avoid the application of the proper law. "Avoidance of the law" (supra), on the other hand is the acceptable arrangement of connecting factors for a legitimate purpose, for example in an agreement, usually between two equal bargaining parties, in order to select an appropriate applicable law or jurisdiction.

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