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ESNECY

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Seniority; the condition or right of the eldest; the privilege of the eldest-born. Particularly used of the privilege of the eldest among coparceners to make a first choice of purparts upon a voluntary partition. … [Read more...]

ESSOINIATOR

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A person who made an essoin. Est aliqnid qnod non oportet etiam si licet; quicquid vero non licet certe non oportet. Hob. 159. There is that which is not proper, even though permitted; but whatever is not permitted is certainly not proper. … [Read more...]

ESCROW

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conveyancing, contracts. (A) The conveyance of funds or assets to a third party to hold in trust and distributed after the successful closing of a sale or a set of conditions occur. Escrow of money is most common where a third party releases funds to a seller upon the successful transferrance of property to the buyer. Also common is source code escrow, a situation where the … [Read more...]

ESPEDIENT

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In Spanish law. A junction of all the separate papers made in the course of any one proceeding and which remains in the office at the close of it. Castillero v. U. S., 2 Black (U. S.) 109, 17 L. Ed. 360. … [Read more...]

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