KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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iEqnitas est perfecta qnsedam ratio quae jus seriptum interpretatnr et emen dat; nulla scriptura compreliensa, sed solum in vera 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. Equity is as it were equality; equity is a species of equality or equalization. Co. Litt 24. iEqnitas ignorantise opitulatur, osci tantise non item. Equity assists ignorance, but not carelessness. iEqnitas non facit jus, sed juri auxil iatnr. Equity does not make law, but as sists law. Lofft, 379. iEqnitas nunqnam contravenit leges. Equity never counteracts the laws. iEqnitas est quasi aequalitas. .ZBquitas uxoribus, liberis, creditoribus maxime favet. Equity favors wives and children, creditors most of all. ^qnnm et bonum est lex legum. What is equitable and good is the law of laws. Hob. 224. Lat Equal; even. A provi sion in a will for the division of the residu ary estate ex cequus among the legatees means equally or evenly. Archer v. Morris, 61 N. J. Eq. 152, 47 Atl. 275. SIM, 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. iEQUUS. SIS. 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 signifying a debt; the property of another; borrowed money, as distinguished from ces swim, one's own money.—^Bs suum. One's own money In the Roman law. Debt; a debt; that which others owe to us, (quod alii nobis debent.) Dig. 50, 16, 213. .3BSNECIA. In old English law. Es necy; the right or privilege of the eldest iEqnitas sequitur legem. Equity fol lows the law. Gilb. 186. .ZBquitas supervacna odit. Equity ab hors superfluous things. Lofft, 282. iERARITJM. Lat In the Roman law. The treasury, (flscus.) Calvin.

them, or by throwing water from the roof and eaves upon them, or by obstructing an cient lights and windows. Broom, Max. 369. JEdificatum solo solo cedit. What is built upon land belongs to or goes with land. Broom, Max. 172; Co. Litt. 4a. JEdificia solo cedunt. Buildings belong to [go with] the soil. Fleta, lib. 3, c. 2, § 12. iEDIIiE. 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 provi sions. Ainsw. Lex.; Smith, Lex.; Du Cange. iEDILITUM EDICTUM. In the Roman law. The iEdilitian 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. 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. JEGROTO. Lat. Being sick or indispos ed. A term used in some of the older re ports. "Holt wgroto." 11 Mod. 179. iEGYIiDE. Uncompensated, unpaid for, unavenged. From the participle of exclu sion, a,