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The gradual eating away of the soil by the operation of currents or tides. Distinguished from submergence which is the disappearance of the soil under the water and the formation of a navigable body over it. … [Read more...] about EROSION

The followers of Erastus. The sect obtained much influence in England, particularly among common lawyers in the time of Selden. They held that offenses against religion and morality should be punished by the civil power, and not by the censures of the church or by excommunication. Wharton. … [Read more...] about ERASTIANS

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

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

Wandering; itinerant; applied to justices on circuit and bailiffs at large, etc. … [Read more...] about ERRANT