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sionem. Equity is a certain correction ap plied to law, because on account of its general comprehensiveness, without an exception, something is absent from it. Flowd. 467. iEquitas est perfecta qusedam ratio quse jus scriptum interpretatur et emen dat; nulla soriptura comprehensa, sed solum in verft ratione consistens. Equity is a certain perfect reason, which interprets and amends the written law, comprehended in no writing, but consisting in right reason alone. Co. Litt. 246. iEquitas est quasi sequalitas. Equity is as it were equality; equity is a species of equality or equalization. Co. Litt. 24. iEquitas ignorantisa opitulatur, oscl tantise non item. Equity assists ignorance, but not carelessness. iEquitas non facit jus, sed juri auxil iatur. Equity does not make law, but assists law. Lofft, 379. iEquitas nunquam contravenit leges. Equity never counteracts the laws. iEquitas sequitur legem. Equity fol lows the law. Gilb. 186. iEquitas supervacua odit. Equity ab hors superfluous things. Lofft, 282. JEquitas uxoribus, liberis, creditoribus maxime favet. Equity favors wives and children, creditors most of all. 2Equum et bonum est lex legum. What is equitable and good is the law of laws. Hob. 224. 2ERA, or ERA. A fixed point of chron ological time, whence any number of years is counted; thus, the Christian era began at the birth of Christ, and the Mohammedan era at the flight of Mohammed from Mecca to Medina. The derivation of the word has been much contested. Wharton. iERARIUM. Lat. In the Roman law. The treasury, {Jiscus.) Calvin. iES. Lat. In the Roman law. Money, (literally, brass;) metallic money in general, including gold. Dig. 9, 2, 2, pr.; Id. 9. 2, 27, 5; Id. 50, 16, 159. 2ES ALIENUM. A civil law term sig nifying a debt; the property of another; bor rowed money, as distinguished from cessuum, one's own money. 2ES SUUM. One's own money. In the Roman law. Debt; a debt; that which oth

of adjoining premises, as by overhanging them, or by throwing water fiom the roof and eaves upon them, or by obstructing an cient lights and windows. Broom. Max. 369. JEdiflcatum solo solo cedit. What is built upon land belongs to or goes with land. Broom, Max. 172; Co. Litt. 4a. JEdiflcia solo cedunt. Buildings be long to [go with] the soil. Fleta, lib. 3, c. 2, §12. JEDILE. In Roman law. An officer who attended to the repairs of the temples and other public buildings; the repairs and clean liness of the streets; the care of the weights and measures; the providing for funerals and games; and regulating the prices of provis ions. Ainsw. Lex.; Smith, Lex.; DuCange. ^DILITTJM EDICTUM. In the Roman law. The iEdihtian Edict; an edict provid ing remedies for frauds in sales, the execu tion of which belonged to the curule sediles. Dig. 21, 1. See Cod. 4, 58. -EFESN. In old English law. The re muneration to the proprietor of a domain for the privilege of feeding swine under the oaks and beeches of his woods. 2EGROTO. Lat. Being sick or indis posed. A term used in some of the older re ports. "Holt cegroto." 11 Mod. 179. iEGYLDE. Uncompensated, unpaid for, unavenged. From the participle of exclu sion, a, as, or ex, (Goth.,) and gild, payment, requital. Anc. Inst. Eug. 2EL. A Norman French term signifying "grandfather." It is also spelled "aieul" and "ayle." Kelham. iEquior est dispositio legis quam homi nis. The disposition of the law is more equitable than that of man. 8 Coke, 152. J3QUITAS. In the civil law. Equity, as opposed to strictum or summum jus, (q. p.) Otherwise called aquum, aquum bonum, cequum et bonum, aquum et justum. Cal vin. iEquitas agit in personam. Equity acts upon the person. 4 Bouv. Inst. n. 3733. iEquitas est correotio legis generaliter latee, qua parte deficit. Equity is the cor rection of that wherein the law, by reason of its generality, is deficient. Plowd. 375. JSquitas est correctio qusedam legi ad hfbita, quia ab ea abest aliquid propter generalem sine exceptione comprehen

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