KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

EFFECTUS SEQUITUR OAUSAM

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EIREtfARCHA

would embrace the whole estate; but the word "effects" alone must be confined to per sonal estate simply, unless an intention ap pears to the contrary. Schouler, Wills, § 509. See Adams v. Akerlund, 168 111. 632, 48 N. E. 454; Ennis v. Smith, 14 How. 409, 14 L. Ed. 472. Effectus sequitur cansam. Wing. 226. The effect follows the cause. EFFENDI. In Turkish language. Mas ter; a title of respect. EFFICIENT CAUSE. The working cause; that cause which produces effects or results; an intervening cause, which pro duces results which would not have come to pass except for its interposition, and for which, therefore, the person who set in mo tion the original chain of causes is not re sponsible. Central Coal & Iron Co. v. Pearce (Ky.) 80 S. W. 450; Pullman Palace Car Co. v. Laack, 143 111. 242, 32 N. E. 285, 18 L. R. A. 215. EFFIGY. The corporeal representation of a person. To make the effigy of a person with an in tent to make him the object of ridicule is a libel. 2 Chit Crim. Law, 866. EFFLUX. The running of a prescribed period of time to its end; expiration by lapse of time. Particularly applied to the termi nation of a lease by the expiration of the When this phrase is used in leases, conveyances, and other like deeds, or in agreements expressed in simple writing, it indicates the conclusion or expiration of an agreed term of years specified in the deed or writing, such conclu sion or expiration arising in the natural course of events, in contradistinction to the determination of the term by the acts of the parties or by some unexpected or unusual in cident or other sudden event. Brown. to military force, EFFRACTION. A breach made by the use of force. EFFRACTOR. One who breaks through ; one who commits a burglary. EFFUSIO SANGUINIS. In old English law. The shedding of blood; the mulct, fine, wite, or penalty imposed for the shed ding of blood, which the king granted to many lords of manors. Cowell; Tomlins. See BrooDwrr. EFTERS. In Saxon law. Ways, walks, or hedges. Blount. term for which it was made. EFFLUXION OF TIME. EFFOBCIALITEB. Forcibly; applied

EGALITY. Owelty, (q. v.) Co. Litt. 169a. EGO. I; myself. This term is used in •forming genealogical tables, to represent the person who is the object of inquiry. EGO, TALIS. I, such a one. Words used in describing the forms of old deeds. Fleta, lib. 3, c. 14, § 5. EGREDIENS ET EXEUNS. In old pleading. Going forth and issuing out of (land.) Townsh. PI. 17. EGYPTIANS, commonly called "Gyp sies," (in old English statutes,) are counter feit rogues, Welsh or English, that disguise themselves in speech and apparel, and wan der up and down the country, pretending to have skill in telling fortunes, and to de ceive the common people, but live chiefly by filching and stealing, and, therefore, the statutes of 1 & 2 Mar. c. 4, and 5 Eliz. c. 20, were made to punish such as felons if they departed not the realm or continued to a month. Termes de la Ley. Ei incumbit probatio, qui dicit, non qui negat; cum per lerum naturam fac tum negantis probatio nulla sit. The proof lies upon him who affirms, not upon him who denies; since, by the nature of things, he who denies a fact cannot produce any proof. Ei nihil turpe, cui nihil satis. To him to whom nothing is enough, nothing is base. 4 Inst. 53. EIA, or EY. An island. Cowell. EIGNE. L. Fr. Eldest; eldest-born. The term is of common occurrence in the old books. Thus, bastard eigne means an illegit imate son whose parents afterwards marry and have a second son for lawful issue, the latter being called mulier puisne, (after-born.) Eigne is probably a corrupt form of the French "airad." 2 Bl. Comm. 248; Litt. § 399. EIK. In Scotch law. An addition; as, eifc to a reversion, eik, to a confirmation. Bell. EINECIA. Eldership. See ESNECY. EINETIUS. In English law. The old est; the first-born. Spelman. EIRE, or EYRE. In old English law. A journey, route, or circuit. Justices in eire were judges who were sent by commission, every seven years, into various counties to hold the assizes and hear pleas of the crown. 3 Bl. Comm. 58. EIRENARCHA. A name formerly given to a justice of the peace. In the Digests, the word is written "irenarcha."