Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

EDICTAL CITATION

ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSIONERS 408

ECHEVIN. In French law. A munic ipal officer corresponding with alderman or burgess, and having in some instances a civil jurisdiction in certain causes of trifling im portance. ECHOUEMENT. In French marine law. Stranding. Emerig. Tr. des Ass. c 12, s. 13, no. 1. ECLAMPSIA PARTURIENTIUM. In medical jurisprudence. The name of a dis ease accompanied by apoplectic convulsions, and which produces aberration of mind at childbirth. ECLECTIC PRACTICE. In medicine. That system followed by physicians who se lect their modes of practice and medicines from various schools. Webster. "Without professing to understand much of med ical phraseology, we suppose that the terms • allo pathic practice' and ' legitimate business' mean the ordinary method commonly adopted by the great body of learned and eminent physicians, which is taught in their institutions, established by their highest authorities, and accepted by the larger and more respectable portion of the com munity. By 'eclectic practice,' without imputing to it, as the counsel for the plaintiff seem inclined to, an odor of illegality, we-presume is intended another and different system, unusual and eccen tric, not countenanced by the classes before re ferred to, but characterized by them as spurious and denounced as dangerous. It is sufficient to say that the two modes of treating human maladie* are essentially distinct, and based upon different views of the nature and causes of diseases, their appropriate remedies, and the modes of applying them." 3i Conn. 453. ECRIVAIN. In French marine law The clerk of a ship. Emerig. Tr. des Ass. c. 11, s. 3, no. 2. ECUMENICAL. General; universal; a» an ecumenical council. EDDERBRECHE. In Saxon law. The offense of hedge-breaking. Obsolete. EDESTIA. In old records. Buildings^ EDICT. A positive law promulgated by the sovereign of a country, and having ref erence either to the whole land or some of its divisions, but usually relating to affairs of state. It differs from a "public proclama tion," in that it enacts a new statute, and carries with it the authority of law. EDICTAL CITATION. In Scotch law. A citation published at the market-cross of Edinburgh, and pier and shore of Leith. Used against foreigners not within the king dom, but having a landed estate there, and against natives out of the kingdom. Bell.

wardens or sidesmen, and parish clerks and sextons, inasmuch as their duties are con nected with the church, may be considered to be a species of ecclesiastical authorities. Wharton. ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION ERS. In English law. A body corporate, erected by St. 6 & 7 Wm. IV. c. 77, em powered to suggest measures conducive to the efficiency of the established church, to be ratified by orders in council. Wharton. See 8 Steph. Comin. 156, 157. ECCLESIASTICAL CORPORA TIONS. Such corporations as are composed of persons who take a lively interest in the advancement of religion, and who are asso ciated and incorporated for that purpose. Ang. & A. Corp. § 36. Corporations whose members are spiritual persons are distinguished from lay corpora tions. 1 BL ComiD. 470. ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS. A sys tem of courts in England, held by authority of the sovereign, and having jurisdiction over matters pertaining to the religion and ritual of the established church, and the rights, duties, and discipline of ecclesiastical persons as such. They are as follows: The arch deacon's court, consistory court, court of arches, court of peculiars, prerogative court, court of delegates, court of convocation, court of audience, court of faculties, and court of commissioners of review. See those several titles; and see 3 Bl. Comm. 64-68. ECCLESIASTICAL DIVISION OF ENGLAND. This is a division into prov inces, dioceses, archdeaconries, rural dean eries, and parishes. ECCLESIASTICAL LAW. The body of jurisprudence administered by the ecclesi astical courts of England; derived, in large measure, from the canon and civil law. As now restricted, it applies mainly to the af fairs, and the doctime, discipline, and wor ship, of the established church. ECDICUS. The attorney, proctor, or ad vocate of a corporation. Episcoporum ecdici; bishops' proctors; church lawyers. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 65. ECHANTILLON. InFrenchlaw. One of the two parts or pieces of a wooden tally. That in possession of the debtor is properly called the "tally," the other "echantillon." Poth. Obi. pt. 4, c. 1, art. 2, § 8.

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