Campaigning near a voting booth or poll. This is usually illegal and a statutory distance must be adhered to by campaigners. … [Read more...] about ELECTIONEERING
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EIRE, OR EYRE
In old English law. A journey, route, or circuit. Justices in eire were judges who were sent by commission, every seven years, into various counties to hold the assizes and hear pleas of the crown. 3 Bl. Comm. 58. … [Read more...] about EIRE, OR EYRE
EJURATION
Renouncing or resigning one's place. Ejus est interpretari cujus est condere. It is his to interpret whose it is to enact. Tayl. Civil Law, 96. Ejus est nolie, qui potest velie. He who can will, [exercise volition,] has a right to refuse to will, [to withhold consent] Dig. 60, 7, 3. Ejus est periculum cujus est dominium aut commodum. He who has the dominion or advantage has the … [Read more...] about EJURATION
ELECTIVE
Dependent upon choice; bestowed or passing by election. Also pertaining or relating to elections; conferring the right or power to vote at elections. Elective franchise. The right of voting at public elections; the privilege of qualified voters to cast their ballots for the candidates they favor at elections authorised by law. Parks v. State, 100 Ala. 634, 13 South. 756; People … [Read more...] about ELECTIVE
EIRENARCHA
A name formerly given to a justice of the peace. In the Digests, the word is written "irenarcha." Eisdem modis dissolvitnr obligatio qua nascitur ex contractu, vel quasi, quibna eontrabitnr. An obligation which arises from contract, or quasi contract, is dissolved in the same ways in which it is contracted. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 60, f 19. … [Read more...] about EIRENARCHA