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
EQUES
Lat. In Roman and old English law. A knight. … [Read more...] about EQUES
EQUITABLE RELIEF
A just and fair remedy under the court. A special remedy; see equitable action. … [Read more...] about EQUITABLE RELIEF