med. jur. A name given to a morbid activity of the sexual propensity. It is a disease or morbid affection of the mind, which fills it with a crowd of voluptuous images, and hurries its victim to acts of the grossest licentiousness, in the absence of any lesion of the intellectual powers. Vide Mania. … [Read more...] about EROTIC MANIA
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ERASURE
contracts, evidence. The obliteration of a writing; it will render it void or not under the same circumstances as an interlineation. 2. Erasures and interlineations are presumed to have been made after the execution of a deed, unless the contrary be proved. The obliteration of words or marks from a written instrument by rubbing, scraping, or scratching them out. Also the place … [Read more...] about ERASURE
ERRANT
Wandering; itinerant; applied to justices on circuit and bailiffs at large, etc. … [Read more...] about ERRANT
ERCISCUNDUS
In the civil law. To be divided. Judicium familial erciscundce, a suit for the partition of an inheritance. Inst 4, 17, 4. An ancient phrase derived from the Twelve Tables. Calvin. … [Read more...] about ERCISCUNDUS
ERRATA
A small document that lists and corrects errors in a prior published book or document. … [Read more...] about ERRATA