KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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ET HOC PETIT

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him in the conveyance, it Is sometimes ex pressed (in abstracts, etc.) to be by "A. B. et ux." ETIQUETTE OF THE PROFESSION. The code of honor agreed on by mutual un derstanding and tacitly accepted by members of the legal profession, especially by the bar. Wharton. Eum qui nocentem infamat, non est seqnnm et bonnm ob earn rem condem nari; delicta enim nocentium nota esse oportet et expedit. It is not just and proper that he who speaks ill of a bad man should be condemned on that account; for it is fitting and expedient that the crimes of bad men should be known. Dig. 47, 10, 17; 1 Bl. Comm. 125. EUNDO ET REDEUNDO. Lat In go ing and returning. Applied to vessels. 3 O. Rob. Adm. 141. EUNDO, MORANDO, ET REDEUNDO. Lat Going, remaining, and returning. A person who is privileged from arrest (as a witness, legislator, etc.) is generally so privi leged eundo, morando, et redeundo; that is, on his way to the place where his duties are to be performed, while he remains there, and on his return journey. EUNUCH. A male of the human species who has been castrated. See Domat, liv. prel. tit. 2, § 1, n. 10. Eckert v. Van Pelt, 69 Kan. 357, 76 Pac. 909, 66 L. R. A. 266. EVASIO. Lat. In old practice. An es cape from prison or custody. Reg. Orig. 312. EVASION. A subtle endeavoring to set aside truth or to escape the punishment of the law. This will not be allowed. If one person says to another that he will not strike him, but will give him a pot of ale to strike first, and, accordingly, the latter strikes, the returning the blow is punishable; and, if the person first striking is killed, it is murder, for no man shall evade the justice of the law by such a pretense. 1 Hawk. P. C. 81. So no one may plead ignorance of the law to evade it. Jacob. EVASIVE. Tending or seeking to evade; elusive; shifting; as an evasive argument or plea. EVENINGS. In old English law. The delivery at even or night of a certain por tion of grass, or corn, etc., to a customary tenant, who performs the service of cutting, mowing, or reaping for his lord, given him EUNOMY. Equal laws and a well-ad justed constitution of government

ET HOC PETIT QUOD INQUIRATUR PER PATRIAM. And this he prays may be inquired of by the country. The conclu sion of a plaintiffs pleading, tendering an Issue to the country. 1 Salk. 6. Literally translated in the modern forms. And thereupon [or thereof] he prays judgment. A clause at the end of pleadings, praying the Judgment of the court in favor of the party pleading. It occurs as early as the time of Bracton, and is literally translated in the modern forms. Bract, fol. 576; Crabb, Eng. Law, 217. ET INDE PRODUCIT SECTAM. And thereupon he brings suit. The Latin conclu sion of a declaration, except against attor neys and other officers of the court. 3 Bl. Comm. 295. ET MODO AD HUNG DIEM. Lat And now at this day. This phrase was the formal beginning of an entry of appearance or of a continuance. The equivalent English words are still used in this connection. Lat And not A technical phrase in pleading, which introduces the neg ative averments of a special traverse. It has the same force and effect as the words "absque hoc," and is occasionally used instead of the latter. ET SEQ. An abbreviation for et sequen tia, "and the following." Thus a reference to "p. 1, et seq." means "page first and the following pages." ET SIC. And so. In the Latin forms of pleading these were the introductory words of a special conclusion to a plea in bar, the object being to render it positive and not ar gumentative ; as et sic nil debet. judgment. Tearb. T. 1 Edw. II. 10. ET SIC AD PATRIAM. And so to the country. A phrase used in the Year Books, to record an issue to the country. ET SIC FECIT. And he did so. Tearb. P. 9 Hen. VI. 17. ET SIC PENDET. And so it hangs. A term used in the old reports to signify that a point was left undetermined. T. Raym. 168. ET SIC UXTERIUS. And so on; and so further; and so forth. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 50, §27. ET UX. An abbreviation for et uxor, — "and wife." Where a grantor's wife joins ET INDE PETIT JUDICIUM. ET NON. ET SIC AD JUDICIUM. And SO to